"SHELL OUT YOUR RATES AND SHOULDER YOUR SPADES."

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2061, 22 September 1885, Page 2

"SHELL OUT YOUR RATES AND SHOULDER YOUR SPADES."

TO lIIC EDirOH. 1 Sut,— A little incident which occurietl at tlie last meeting of the J'l.iko Count} Council i-> a -^.iiiij>le of the consideration which the latepayeis of the county nj.iy expect at the h.uids of Councillor I'nth, and the ni.ijontv of hi-. colleagues until the Te Aioh.i Tiamvvay debt of t'!t,l',r> 11 paid. -Y. modest it-quest tras made by an unfortun.ite ratepayer tli it an expenditure of t(> should be made to pi event fuithei damage than had ahead y been done to his piopeity l>v a drain cut some time since by the authoiity of the council. "Useless to consider the lequcst" said Councillor I'hepmell, "we have no fund--." '"It is inunctions ' exclaimed Councillor Fnth, " that people should expect the council to find money for tluse tuning things. Why can't they take their spades and do such tiling is those themselves'" Of couise, C'ouncilloi Futh being a, pi eat man, a man of mind, a man of cuteipiisc and a man of wealth, may, in duect violation of the law he is supposed to administer plunge the county over head and ear*, in debt. He may of couise tia\eise e\eiy principle of justice and fan dealing \\ Inch should guide him in his capacity as tuistee of the county credit and the county funds. He need not be ashamed to dip as deeply as the law allows him into the pocket-, of eveiy stmggling fanner of the county in oiHur that the connecting link between. Mr Fnth's bitteiy and Mi Fnth'a mines may be maintained. For so great and noble a £L pmpose as this it is of couise quite light M that Hie county should be diagged into ' debt to the tune of £•'.), 000 or £10,000. But, that one of the ratepaveis should be so mean as to ask for a lefund of l'(i foi a necessaiy woik out of the t'3,f500 they aie called upon to pay this yeai, is monstions ! peifectly inoiistunis !' ' "Shell out your lates and shoulder your spades" is evidently the ultimation of Mr Fnth and the council to the long suffering ratepayeis of the county. — I am, Sir, youis tiuly. A. FOUETT HAIXXttUJE,