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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume 1, Issue VI, 7 June 1905, Page 2

The Gpun%- Elections, which take place thi^year/ar^ likely to be of an interesting arid Hv«|y riatiire—at anyrate vk; jthfe Riding. Ihe feeling? *is- -,*grow§ig very much stronger V tha;t .seething must be done td remedy Itn© present state of things ;. regarding** revenue and expenditure oh the^Mdin streets The capital value of Vth& town has risen so rapidly; during the past five years, that the rates iccrntng to the County, from same are ho^jfar m excess of what i^aecessary for the upkeep of the street^ and 4 as the town requires a lot of its other streets attended to and has to borrow!; to carry out the work,- the ratepayers the rates they are payjrig expended m the towjr.. . ; This be pne of the main fttet^si thlM 6 hdtdates will have to?sk^#{^|j at the election, if they|ex^'*|ctA*|o §« the votes of the town ratepsysfcs, ■>%}%{ tl severance of the tovtfnvjrp^ _ n d as the toyiif {ra^6^a§rs are Strong riumerilail^ ts%||blay a winning game. {$# &\{ey pSurity Cliairtnah has,exj^r™*ss€d^W..© tbat the Board |dp^ryer-y-^ell otlt of the f Couuty .> *np ■' serjpns obj ectjpn is. -likely to ijbte raised iby the €riunty Counciljattlievse-yl^ance, as, [if the Board jare doirijg'pVell out of the present i'conftecti.on,^ then the County should be, glad to^et quit of an unprovable appendage.