JOINING THE CITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 226, 24 September 1927, Page 8

JOINING THE CITY.

A MT. ROSKILL VIEW. (To the Editor.) Your correspondent who denlnrprogress of the district evidently dM » » *** to reflect before suggesting that** .?"* wires" who engineer?* "J* proved values campaign should start. ment for joining the city. This the nature of getting busy to undo thfJ* * work, for in the process of am*l« ?" Mount RoskUl would be deprived rfrtw 5 * of its new rating system—a fact rf^ 8 * Avondale ratepayers will be made they receive their rate notices next veat *Z* the city. It was considered that the alt»Js* in rating would so ease the burden for t2T? majority of the ratepayers that their J 8 easily afford to support the loans necesLvT 1 the development of the district, ladetm T. saving money, as compared with the old ««♦ The mere fact of joining the city wonUlS*' guarantee that the road making, etcT*Lu be done any quicker, better or cheapertlitokour own board and ratepayers would etfflLJ to foot the bill. The city is no alms to outside districts. If the behaving 2 one or two members of the board is brhiehS! it into disrepute, tbia reflects not a litttem22 the electors, who usually get about u a class of representative as thev deserve. reJ. Councils are not always the most eannJt»2 bodies, and if we in this district W grievances, we have it largely in our own W to remedy then, whereas as a small Z. of the city we should be practically hdril- " The trouble with the majority of rateiS" the world over is that they want th/»S done without cost of monev'or other effort their, part and will snatch at any straw wfcM would 6eem to help them in that The poor responses at the various ratepavetf polls are proof of their apathy, which is furtte indicated by the willingness, if not eaniM of many of them in the districts Auckland to let "the city" do the dirtr work in the pious hope that they will be let off lightly. Beyond that they care lftOt When Auckland city adopts some such sdicae of civic government as was recently propounded by the Hon. Geo. Fowlde, together with ntjn. on unimproved values, we 6hall have i» objection to amalgamation. But in the mtutime there are big "cons" as well as "ptee." ONE OF THE LIVE WIBIS.