THE £40,000 GRANT AND THE HAMILTON BOROUGH.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 941, 4 July 1878, Page 2

THE £40,000 GRANT AND THE HAMILTON BOROUGH.

Sir, —I cannot allow your statement ih the Waikato Times, of Tuesday last, to pass unchallenged, viz., that the ridings of Kirikiriroa and Cambridge had swallowed up Tamahere. Though substantially correct, it is leading the public to the belief that Cambridge was an assenting party to this transaction of the Council, when it is a well-known fact to you that Cambridge fought hard to prevent it, but without avail. Touching the £io,ooo grant, the Counties Act distinctly defines our year, when balance-sheet has to be prepared, audited, &c. (I presume for some other purpose than mere form) — that, in working the Comities Act, councillors shall have some basis to work on, and in this instance I fail to see that the Council have power to deal with this money other than revenue of 1878-9, and we have no other basis to work on than rates collected to March, 1878. The framers of the Counties Act undoubtedly saw the difficulties that must arise if the Council were allowed to dodge backwai-ds and forwards 1877 for one matter and 1878 for another, just as it might suit certain councillors for a basis of division clearly defined, the financial year to prevent these contingencies. Again, I fail to see why any exception should be made of the Hamilton Borough. Undoubtedly, this money was voted for country districts—the Government ignoring boroughs in the division of this money. Xou state that Hamilton East -was heir to its share of the grant before it expired. I presume that was duly calculated by Hamilton East. The Counoil was the heir apparent to all the rich endowments in Hamilton East, prior to Hamilton becoming aborough. Altered circumstances supplanted our claim, and I think that, when Hamilton assumed the dignified title of a. borough, it supplanted the Council as heir-at-law to the said endowments, and saorified any minor benefits that might have accrued to Hamilton East had it remained part of the County of "Waikato. —I am, &c, George E. Clark. The Grove, July 3, 1878.

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