RAGLAN COUNTY AFFAIRS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3199, 24 December 1892, Page 2

RAGLAN COUNTY AFFAIRS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your report of the meeting of the Raglan County Couucil in your issue of December Ist, it is stated that a deputation appointed at a meeting of ratepayers to wait upon the Council re special rate contended that there was no need to have collected this rate, as the Government was owing money to the Council under the Crown and Native Land Act; that the deputation requested tho Council t,o rescind the resolution levying a special rate ; and that the Council did not accede to the request, but would do all they could to get the money from the Government for that purpose. This report is very misleading. The .deputation did not object to the special rate. The ratepayers present at the meeting at Te Mixta have always paid the special rate from the time the loan was borrowed, nor do we ask to be relieved from doing so until the loan is paid off. What we object to is being called upon to pay twice (the amount paid in form r years) because certain parties have not paid their rates. The deputation contended that had the rate been collected and the Government contribution paid, the loan fund should have been in credit, and there would have been no need to have increased the special rate. As for the Council not rescinding; the resolution, they could not do so, but they accepted a noticc of motior. by Cr. Hill to do so at the next meeting of the Council. So. Mr Editor, it is imt the special rate we object to, but the increase in the special rate. Will you kindly insert this iji your paper and oblige —\ours, <fce., KiCIIAKI) BIU.IMiTON.