The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1886. COMPULSORY LEVIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2478, 16 December 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1886. COMPULSORY LEVIES.

Thb following is the communication from the United District Board which wan discussed with so much warmth at the late masting of the Wairavapa East Count? Council: Wellington, 3rd December, 1886, The Clerk of tho Wairarapa East County Council, Masterton, Silt,—*l have the honor by direction of the United Dljtrlot Board to forward you herewith a statement showing the amount of liabilities due to Slit March, 1887. with tho amount pay. able by your Council-(£140 3a 9d) as one of the local contributing authorities under the Act. A cheque for tho amount will oblige. I hart the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, L. W, Lovsdat, Secretary, Statement ihowlsf amount of liabilities to the 81it Maroh, 1887, of tho Wellington and Wolr&rapa United District Charitable Aid Beard and for which the Wairarapa East County Council with the Borough of Masterton it responsible, whose share Is reckoned as being four-ninths of tho amounts with the amount of the Oorernment subsidy payable therein to the Board.— TO utf 20 children (19 committed by the Wellington Benoh and 1 by the Masterton Bench) to St. Joseph's Orphanage, Welluigton, at 7i per week per child, from let November, 1886 ... £lsl 0 0 To keep 11 children (5 committed from Wellington, 1 from Masterton, 1 from Lower Hutt) to St. Mary's Nelson ... 83 1 0 Tp keep 12 children (all from Wellington) committed to Caversham Industrial • School, from Ist October, 1886, at 7«6d perweek 11610 0 To keep 22 children (all from Wellington) committed to Burnham Industrial School, from Ist of October, 1886, at 7a 6d per week ; 823 0 4 Tho Wellington Benevolent So- ' doty 800 0 0 The Hutt County Counoil 130 0 0 The Horowhonia Council... ... 6 0 0 General Incidental Expenses .. 20 0 0 £188716 0 Four-ninths of, £69817s 6d (being one half of £1387 16s) less Government subsidy, equals amount payable by tho Council, Yiz. £l4O 3s9d,

L, W, liOVBDAT, ,'. Secretary, Apparently by the above statement the Wairarapa East County and the Borough of Masterton are responsible for some £ls odd for the maintenance of two children belonging to this district, but under the existing law they hove to contribute £l4O 3s 9d. It would, perhaps, be better to regard the County and Borough as suffering bodies rather than controlling bodies. Their power of control is necessarily

limited, Wellington having a sufficient representation on the United District Board to swamp all Wairarapa influence, In this district atl we have to do is to pay any snm of money which may be demanded and anathematise the present very liberal Ministry which has floated a local poor rate to relieve tlio colonial exchequer, and lur handed the Wairarapa bodily over to the Wellington City, to bo dealt with •as the law directs and bled ad libilum.

Ton gates in the Forty Mile Bush are inevitable, but it is a pity that good money should, in these hard times be wasted upon them. JFor the first year the cost of instituting this new tax in the bush country, will probably bo about £250, and the receipts may possibly amount to but little more than this sum. We would like to see the £260 which will have to bo spent in what may prove to be only a temporary arrangement utilised for mending bad roads, but under the present Government this alternative is tot possible.