CAMBRIDGE TOWN ENDOWMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3211, 24 January 1893, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE TOWN ENDOWMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sill,—By your issue of the 12tli instant, I find that our "City Fathers" intend reducing Mr Thna. Freeman's rent of sections No. 180 to 195 from £1 to 10s per acre per annum. I should very much like to know it they can do this without consulting the ratepayers; or perhaps I should say not if they can du it, but if they should in common fairness do it without first consulting the ratepayers, Most of us know that Mr Freeman has nothing to do with that paddock, and that Cr. Bach-who I presume voted for the motion as he was presenthas bad possession of it for some time. If the reut is to be reduced, let it dp put up by auction and if no one bids more than 10s per acre per annum for a ten acre paddock, level, well fenced, and in good order, then let Mr Bach have it. Our" City Fathers" should be liko Caw's wife-above suspicion. But how do they "pan out?" Look a little further down your report and you will Bee, Mrs Wilson, a widow with fatherless children, applies for a reduction of rent, and how is she treated ? A committee, consisting of the Mayor (who should be impartial in all things) and the mover and the seconder for rednciug Cr. Bach's rent, is appointed to report upon the sections 600 a and 6'OlA. The former they say "is valueless," and the other, containing 3a 1b 36p and a "codlin establishment," they think is worth £5 per annum! and yet this land is on the river bank and is' unworkable except with a spade, Let the Borough Council explain this descrepancy if they can or admit they have "axes to grind." I say if anyone wants rent reduced let the allotment be put up by auction and all will be satisfied.—Yours, etc., Vigilant, Cambridge, 19th January, 1R!)3.