TOWN RATES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 772, 19 May 1881, Page 2

TOWN RATES.

. [To the Editor of the Daily.] , ISiß,—Your' 'correspokdelit 1 O.IL" who, of pourgj, letests of thg Top ooflncil>:anoof an independent ratepayer,'js ;o 'very wide of j the markin letter \ (I'have only'iyritten one! 'tiiat I should \ nbt have'thouglit it worth while to notj'ce ' l ' his reply had he'not wholly omitted all reference '(o'<)pp ; of my grounds of com-pliiints-the .trespassing over .publia roads ,p;afootpaE' , r^ ? ' ; |"O.D." evidently assumes that whijt fa, is right, and further that if people do not; • like it they may go"elsewhere.").i how shortly notice the paragraphs of hia •letter, .Ist, We are not so bad as o6ier people, ergo we are right. Is. that logic 1 ; 2nd. Why drag in the collector of rates? I have made no complaint about hiinfbut ofjthe systen'of'c'olleWon—Whi&STstill repeat i? altogether irregular. W§ pqt no:favo(,.'t : f.. ! ;t rtaij-a Mi ' 3rd. <( C.l).!' had better pijt on his spectacles and go about the : prinpma| • ai§J putes the truth of my assertion, ' , 4th. This appeapa'to beavevafa qqestjo, anjl whetjier it be the duty of the' Towii .Council or work, it is certainly tjiq of thfllTown Council to'see tjiat if is done';'but'init&q of this thp wjjolj supimer Has bpep ' at; loiyed to pgijs away "without" anything be\ug dono, sth. live| jn an "/fobsoilft] afreet, 11 but in one of ihe main thorough-'-fares of the,town, .and a day's work,with « tbrt® ; afil6 , ''ha6d8 t ioiiiif remove the impediment I complain of. It is no argument'that "the 4 town Council have spent a certain ,sum of i^prtye^k^af'thMik, payers have a rigfit fo •■.eSpeqtiOg uali. equable expenditure fairly over the who]eitown,,|ind not ;grea't, improvements in certain'parts';iu'spioiouSly connected with the premises" ofr members of he whjle other places are left in the '' ' *' " "I have the bylaws of the Council before m 9, and it is certainly futile to make such regulations as in one" instance-that of impounding stray cattle —they are prftoi ticajly Ignored l ,:at)d Irapnatljiat the In. ' habitants have a right ;to 'be p^oteoted'"' from the nuiapce ariaing .fronhthelr.ia- » fractioh in this respect,-' \ i . - \ ~r y ,B.