CAMBRIDGE TOWN BOARD EXTRAVAGANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2189, 20 July 1886, Page 3

CAMBRIDGE TOWN BOARD EXTRAVAGANCE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I was very much struck on reading your report of the town board meeting on Tuesday, the 13th insfc., in reference to Mr John Thomson's application for £5 for services rendered to the licencing bench. I am not going to question whether Mr Thomson should be paid for his services or not. I have no doubt he has a fair salary, and I think not over-worked. What strikes me moat is the part taken on Mr Thomson's behalf by Mr Hughes and Mr As-her in illegally voting the ratepayers' money to u. public officer, who&e salary is paid by Government, when I remember only a few months since* Mr Hughe-* and Mr Asher, at a public meeting held in the Oddfellows' Hall, came boldly forward, and were then considered the ' ratepayers' champions, and on that ticket Mr Asher was returned member of the Cambridge Town Board. I may here state that the public meeting was called to consider what was supposed to be an illegal act by Cr. Hewitt in expending a small sum of money on a certain street that was not ordered by the board, but was really not illegal, as the town board endorsed his action in the matter. I hereby recoid my protest as a ratepayer against the payment of the above named sum. I think with an overdraft of seven or eight hundred pounds we have not fixe pounds to give away. Only a few weeks sinca a request was made by settlers in the Tamahere district for the repairs or improvement of their only road into Cambridge. The answer was "no funds " Trusting you will insert this letter' in the interest of the public in your valuable journal,— l am, yours obediently, A Ratepayer. Cambridge, July 16th,