THE LOAN PROPOSALS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 33, 29 October 1920, Page 4

THE LOAN PROPOSALS.

(By "Spectator.")

Don't it seem so very funny, Invercargill's needing money ; Ratepayers with uneasy feeling, Find the Councillorg appealing For authority to raise Loans and still more loans always. Now ' to have a right and thorough Renovation bf the Borough, The Council thinks it won't be erring, If a quarter of a million sterling Be authoriaed for them to spend, To by-and-by attain that end. Several departments need Some thousands each with all due speed, And citizens must willing be. To grant the call for £.s.d., For Gasworks now, the estimate To keep them truly up-to-date, And the department much alive Require in thousands> twenty-five. The Tiamways, too, they also count Will quite absorb a like amount, While fifty thousand pounds will be required for electricity. Some fifty thousand quid, they deem, \\ on t more than do the sewerage scheme, And eighty thousand nicely meets Their estimates for roads and streefsj And reclamation on the shore Accounts for fifty thousand more. To build the war memorial, Ihey think it rnore advisable, And say in most emphatic tone The right proceeding is by loan. Now citizens will have to say, Upon the chosen polling day, vY hether it is really sane To so increase the rates again, Spectator" asks them to remember, The poll takes place on 1st December, And in the meantime ruminate, Before alas ! it is too late !