MIRAMAR LOAN PROPOSALS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 125, 22 November 1907, Page 3

MIRAMAR LOAN PROPOSALS.

TO TITIJ KEiXOR. ■ Sir, — At tho Worker Bay meeting on Waduesc'ay night. Councillor E.iat reir.a-k-od that a\an if the loan proposes \ivre : defeated at the poll, he had \ cry good ; reason 'to believe vhat il\a bylaw aH'cctlnsj tho building area wculd be amended to an eishtli aero with a 40ft fioniig-e. Councillor East is surely on c-xtiaoidiu-ary representative of his ratepayers, ilo, in company with others of tne council, decide to alter the building area, wUh tho distinct proviso that it shall not come into force, unril the nepe£>ary Tunds to provide diainago and wencr hrAO been sanctioned by tho ratepayers. 1 lake it from_ this tliat tho whole council wore unanimous that it, would not be good for the district to reduce the building arc.', until we had diainago. Yet at ihe IVieuLing of ratepayers convened by the -Mayor at Worser Iky to discus'; tho loan prcposnK Councillor Ea=t impresses upon Kio audienco. that even if tho lean proposals be delcated he btill lies every reason to believe that he will bo able to accomplish his little scheme, and subdivide Himmar South wiih the oi.ehlh acn' tOi'iion, whil«r thr> rest of tho dibtrici has to l-e content with a quatter aero. .Surely Conn fcillor East was net trjing io bour.co hw xatopajvig, and if the balance of liis-pecc't was as illogical and unsound as tho t-ta'c-lncnt I havp referred 10, it coidd not have cprriod much weight al i!n» mcclinf?. I also nuder-tiuid that his Wor-hip ihc' Mayor characterised my leticr tVat appeared in votir columns on tho 18th mcl. jis. "twaddle." I thought hU AVorship knew me bettor by thi= time than to nrcuso me of writing or talking '"twaddle." 1 will ask any unbiassed mind that chooses to 'read my letlor abo\c ref-Trt-d to if they can fu.'rly ch:ir.ieforiso it as "twaddlf-,-" and do not fo.sr {he vo^nll. On Iho other hand. lv» Worship told tho rat »njj--rrs at Worker Hay that if :he <-uhtu\i-s-ioi> into nil eicrhth afi\ did not suit thi' di-tricl in mx months' tinn 1 , lie would X-> in favour of altonui; thi. bylaw. Thai jV 10 h.w, ihat after the two ?oul!ieri! syndicates, and possibly Crawford Bros, thcinm:lvc, havo i--übdi\ ided their I'iiul into oighlh-acre sections (and one h.is alrcat'v done ko. couutinj? \ji»or. tbn hvlaw biding aliet'<?d>, it is po c sibl<? that his Wov- ' ship and those cotmcillors who rppie«ei . j the southern end of Miranar might docm 11 advi'-ablo to change 1-ack ai;ain io the quart er-aci'e in the inlcrcsn of ihp. balance of tho liorouprh. I do 'not know what fho tMlojiaycr. 1 - think of .such toiitm-.ion' 1 . One can tc-arroly call it "twiddlo," but there M'omb'lo bo an undercurrent o f sonicthine else. — 1 am, etc . T<. CITASE-MOKRiS. Miramar, 21&t November. 1007. ,

The town oE Faleide, Norway-,- imposes no taves on its lucky inhabitants. During tho last thirty years tho authoriduring the last thirty years tho authorities at Fuleide havo holO oyor £1,000,000 worth o f trees; and, by judicious replanring, have provided for i 1 similar incoipie every thirty year*. In conscriuoi^cc of tins source of commercial Mcalth, there_ aro hg taxes _J» F«loidc, ,i ml I local railways und telephones arc f reOj ns well as- education aud Unuks — . .iiSJoii tho Kind's bitthdeuu