THE CONTEST FOR WAITEMATA.
(To the Editor.)
Sih,--Voui leading article of last night) must have been written from a very inaconrate knowledge of my actions during the past threu years, for I have always maintained that if wo must h;ue special taxation, ifc should V<e n -land and income tax in lieu of property tux : then tigaih my objection to tho Civil Service ha* not been on the score of pay, bub that, the departments are ovefprown, and Wellington centralism rliwarts the freedom of loral administration. This can be proved in numerous instance?. At tho present time our ti'inafcic Asylum drainage i≤ being dona by filiiciuls sent up from the South at an ei'tra cost to the taxpayer tor passages and travailing allowances, Afc the same time the Public Works Department here with insufficient wpib aro woil able t( J do it, they having to trive way to the too many idle haudrt ab Wellington; und this is only one instance of many.- 1 am, etc., X, Monk.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 286, 4 December 1890, Page 5
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