The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 1911. THAT BOGEY.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 41, 5 September 1911, Page 2

The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 1911. THAT BOGEY.

THAT the proposed scheme for a water supply is heartily approved and genuinely desired by practically the whole of the ratepayers is well known, but unfortunately, as is the case with every progressive movemcntthere are always those who though not openly opposed, are inclined to " damn with faint praise." We are sorry to note too, that that bogey " increased taxation" is being paraded in connection with the water proposal. This bogey has from time immemorial been the weapon and warcry of a small section of every community. We dare not trust ourselves to use the neces'sary adjectives for the classification of that section. The cry is so ridiculously puerile so egregiously stupid, so palpably inexcusable, and so pitiably shortsighted—in the face of the evidence at hand, of the results in all other places the wide world over, where water and drainage schemes have been installed —that one is left in blank amazement at not only those misguided, unobservant people, who parade this weather beaten bogey but also at those unthinking folks, who regard it with anything, but the most pronounced ridiculeThey would "spoil the ship for a pen'ortli of tar." They are in the position of the man, who went fishing without bait, because the bait would have cost a ha 'penny. If the " increased taxation" bogey gets to work in Te Awamutu, then Te Awamutu will catch no fish. Surely a good haul is worth the price of the bait, and with the proved certainty of the good catches in every other place, which has had the pluck to risk a ha'porth of bait why should Te Awamutu hesitate. Can the increased taxation bogcyites name one single instance where the installation of water and drainage has resulted in anything but an unqualified success, and put thousands of pounds into the pockets of those fortunate enough to be the possessors of property be/ore the installation. The inauguration of these absolutely necessary conveniences (water and drainage) marks an epoch in in the history of any town,- and is the commencement of such a wave of progress-through, the Influx of population far exceeding the expectations of the most sanguine of the original movers for the innovation,