EDEN TERRACE STREETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 181, 30 July 1912, Page 7

EDEN TERRACE STREETS.

(To the Editor.l ' T Fir, —In looking over the report of itlie ' j. Ja.«t meeting at t'Ue Eden Terrace Road a Hoard in your valuable pu.blk-nt-ian of c July 17-th. it states that, the Board hjul q an application from Street, : s for sfiiru'tihinp to be done iliprp, and ithat a alrra*!y seven:v per oeirt of lust war's rates lia<l 'been spent in Una street. This s seems very unfair to the ratepayers of Hit , on her pans of Eden Terraw fhat this i larfre artKna-n't of rates should be spent in i one street, ami still—like Oliver TVist— | they are not satisfied, and apparently want more. Soiik , streets in -the above district have riot 5 per cent of the rates i received Jroni the slreeit spent on them. I ami yet no one hears a murmur, no weep- j ins; or wuiHn*;, or Uiles of woo pored into ■ the far of tie Board at noarly even , ! ' meeting. Jf my memory servos mc : * some ten years aero £400 was borrowed !' for<!roenivood Street, *he property in the ! .■street frivt-n as wnrrity, the money bor- ' lowed beinsr rpent in the street and to tie . paid iwK-k to the lendf-r (1 think the (Jot- I ' eminent), on build society prmoiples \ ' within lifu-en years. After paying off for ' about two years. I α-m piven to lmder- i Ftand that tiie Kden Termee Koad Hoard , ' then in power took the liability of t!ie i ]o(Ui over, and now pays (Greenwood Streii il4 10/ peT anmrm as ■iMcres-t. ' ' I run-t confess 1 cannot jrrasp this d«U, . nn-J must exclaim witii t.he lute Mi. T. :'. Ura.'ken. "Not understood.'— l am. etc., ; ( RATEPAYER. ;