"THESE GREAT, WISE MEN."
—• — " A LITTLE BIT BOLSHIE." i AN INDIGNANT RATEPAYER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, Tuesday. The Piako County Council at yesterday's meeting received a letter from a Morrinsville ratepayer expressing indignation at the methods of the council in collecting rates and spending the mone}' elsewhere. He forwarded a cheque under protest and said he would hold the council responsible for any damage due to the bad state of his road. The rate money was not spent on the road and last year they got one plank in a bridge out of £200 in rates. Some years they got nothing. •AA'hen they paid their rates that was the last they saw or heard about them. The letter continued: "I am inclined to think our council is getting a little bit Bolshie. . . . Might I suggest to these great, Avise men that they impart a little British element into tlie matter and put on the rate notice next year that out of all the rates paid by October Ist, 75 per cent, will be spent on the road where the money was collected from instead of at present. The money is taken and fooled away miles away from where it is collected, and we are left to bog through the mud."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 65, 18 March 1925, Page 8
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