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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2583, 27 April 1887, Page 2

Tub residents of Masjicrtoii 'are called upon to vote to-morrow for giving out of a Town Lands Trust reserve (I). 30' feet frentage to Renall-street, or ii) 33 feci; frontage to Kcnall street, or (3) for giving no frontage at nil to Ronall-stroet, We do not approve of the people of to-day giving away property.which eight to be conserved for future generations, but as the Trustees have in this instance wavered in their duty to posterity, tho question arises as to how people ought to. vote, We do not believe it is of much use askiny settlers to sav " no" to the street widening project as they are more likely to value the temporary benefit of a pyblip improvement thaa the permanent injury which it will entail upon the property of the Trust, but we do ask them to limit tho grant jo 88 fee), bo that the Trust out of the 3 feet left t.q' ji may at Rome future date recoup itself for' flip land it is likely to ho called upon to surrender. To give the whole j)3 feet away means taking a hundred pounds or moro out of the pocket of tho Trust and putting it into the pocket of the wealthy owner of an adjacont section, [Since the above was in type the poll has bcon postponed!] :