CITY EXTRAVAGANCE.
(To the I'.dltor.) Sir. —Surely the city people have been interfering more than a little in farmers': affairs lately and can stand a little advice from" the advised. While there is a time for art galleries and civic squares, the Farmers' Union dlegate •who favoured tendering a little wellmeant advice to Auckland's city fathere, held that the moment is scarcely opportune when numbers of those who eventually pay for such superfluities are being stripped of all they own. It will be impossible to curtail recklessly rising private expenditure whilst town public bodies vie in borrowing for the tiny areas they control, areas which already owe more than four times the amount of the more truly developmental debt of tiio counties. "Auckland particularly Bi'oms to be suffering from swelled head in inonev matters. " It is not London yet.—l am, etc., A. E. ROBINSON.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 276, 20 November 1926, Page 20
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