PANMURE ROAD BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 307, 29 December 1930, Page 6

PANMURE ROAD BOARD.

I was very much interested in "One Who Was Not Turned Down Last Election's" letter and was much obliged to. him for giving jne the information about the Hospital and Chari-, table Aid Board's levy on the board. Tlie. figures I quoted, were supplied to "me by the Road Board some time ago, but apparently, like most other levies and rates, they have gone up since then. Anyway, the fact that my figures were wrong in my opinion strengthens my argument, that at the annual,meeting a proper balance-sheet should be read to the ratepayers, to supply them with.- the necessary information on the working of the •board. I also regret that the writer thinks; I am on the aggressive side and not on the progressive, but I can assure him thatjamnot in the least aggressive, 'but am out to get a fairspin, as I pay ail dues and demands made by the board and he who pays the piper should have a say in calling the tune. I may also inform him I have not the inclination nor the intention to sit on the Panmure Boaid, as I ,consider it a waste of valuable time. lam a ' so aware that the main road through Panniure is in dispute, but your correspondent does not tell us the reason why. It is only through the dilatory methods of the 'board; it has had every opportunity of coming to a settlement with the Mount Wellington Board, but. it prefers to remain inactive, although it ettl collects the rates off the property fronting the road. We have a beautiful suburb here a n one of the most fertile in New Zealand, an I say it is a disgrace to the board to allow the roads and footpaths to exist in such jj dilapidated condition. The view of the boa r . ■ is that if it can/ only keep .the rates dojnr to a paltry penny in the pound it is heroic and nothing else is required. I only hope your correspondent, having now taken the matter up through your valuable paper, will, with his other colleagues on the board, .ge a move on and give us a good deal bet e service than they have done in the past. - one would begrudge an extra bit on■ rates if one could see something for -it. _ ONE FOR PROGRESS; /