THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BOROUGH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2442, 6 March 1888, Page 2

THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BOROUGH.

TO THE EDITO 1 .;. Sir.—lt may be just as well to explain to the uninitiated a few facts about the above. To break up the Borough is, to start with, a practical (I don't say a theoretical) impossibility. In the first place both the Waipa and Waikato County Councils have to be consulted on the matter, and they have to agree to take over: the two portions of the Borough, one to each, with all their existing liabilities. Now the Borough of Hamilton owes £0,000; and is it likely that Waipa with its already too heavy over-draft, or Waikato with its credit balance in the bank will be willing, tho one to increase its indebtedness, tho other to put a monkey on its back, to gratify the whims of 30 or 40 discontented burgesses, who having already had <in undue amount of expenditure on their side of the river, and finding that their influenc in the management of affairs is on the wane, now wish to cut the painter, and escape the payment of their just debts. No, Sir, the thing cannot be allowed to go on, and as it is only necessary to get one-third of the burgesses to object to the dissolution, I think a petition to that effect ought to be started, to prevent to the council, and so strangle the serpent in its infancy. Another thing I observe, and that is that the first signatory to the precious documont has not one pennyworth of interest in the borough in any shape or form, and no doubt many others are in the same position. How any number of men, purporting to have a grain of common sense in their composition, can he induced to sign such a rigmarole I cannot imagine. Another thing I see they object jq the creation of saleyards amongst other thing!!, whijst at the saine tiine one of the rno'ving spirits in the matter js docldpd.lv of opinjpn that they should be erected, " but not at Hamilton West! " How is tljat for consistency ? However, it is hardly worth writing about:, as it can nevep oorne pff, but the petition should certainly be framed and hung in the Council Chambers to let posterity see what progressive, go-a-head citizens their ancestors of Hamilton Kast were. Resqujespat in pace ! — J am, Sir, yours in the flesh, Tako ATA Tjica. Hamilton, sth March, IS3S.