THE AREA OF THE BOROUGH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2079, 27 August 1885, Page 2

THE AREA OF THE BOROUGH.

Notwithstanding Mr Woodroofe's assertion that he had consulted three la.wyei'3 011 the fragility of reducing the of the borough, all of whom are said to Jiave given a favorable opinion, it now turn? out that the thing could not be done witlioiij; .djfljiplying the Borough altogether, «ii(J then commencing (k novo. As. by this means the County of Wairarapa Rast would get the bent lit of all tho property the Borough now possesses, such a proposal would, of course, be preposterous, Jt is, 110 doubt, absurd that a local body should have the power to extend its bouwjaijes, and none 10 limit litem, and it is io be hoped that the matter will lie set right in the Municipal Corporation Act which is now befoie Parliament, In tho .nieitiilime Mr Woodroofh, and the kikhJl following, who micowdcd in getting ahout eighty names attached to the petition, will have to jyait. Wo wondei whether it haß not. orfliir)©] to Mr Woodroofb that he is acting inconsistently, When the !irn|jnsi|l to constitute Mas tor ton a borough wna before the public, one of the members, of the committee appointed to carry out the solution passed at the firm public meeting, j>,rotated strongly against flo much rural land being included, and he Hppeajetl, amongst others, to Mr Woodroope for assistance. Mr Woodeoofe, howovef, went with the stream, and turned a deaf ear to the representations that wire made to him. The fear of a gas rate' seems to have phanged his. id-, as instantaneously.