OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1498, 28 November 1874, Page 3

OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

He Editor: Sir,—Mr. Kelly, M.H.R. 'uuranga, amuses his constituents by Ss that the provincial revenue is spent j^Pally in the city and suburbs. I should «him to point out where the provincial is spent in the city, and if it is nob *%the reverse? That the citizens are f«d of their own revenues for the support JWri-cialism and expenditure elsewhere. W> do the publicans, auctioneers, Police K| dos; nuisance licences, and revenue m from the city go to but into the proSi chest. At least they do so in Auck--3 bnt at Dunedin they are justly and wmately taken by the city where they are SJ; Here the citizens are heavily taxed Wm shilling expended in the city, and to mortgage their endowments to raise ? ey to improve the city in place of using owa revenues. The* only institutions jr* receive a share of provincial expense chargeable against the city are the H Hospital, and Asylum, and these instiC°B would be a fair charge against the JP»s revenue of the province, apart from jjjPovttnents, which, in a few years hence, }!j?aterially help to the support of our J«al and Asylum. Mr. Kelly's nonsense j/'nswer a purpose, but it will not mislead |p here, who know that very little of i^cial revenue benefits the city.—l am,