DRAINAGE RATES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8432, 15 March 1893, Page 2

DRAINAGE RATES.

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Siß, — Your correspondent, "A Colonial," very Justly recognieee the «• eorjooa grievance ,1 he complains of. '«Why euould . . * . . the tiubttrbs bo afflicted wita each ft heavy rate? It ia Perfectly man* fltftrtW." Title i» unfortunately too true. Now, sir, % cannot «.grcc with him that to relieve the suburban diatriot of thk iftjaf. tice a greater injustice should be doa& t© ft district outside oureelvea. It would bequit© &s inconsistent to levy a mte upon Ghrbfichttxcb—say, for the drainage oi the Haw« woli district—«ae to extend the area of t&s J Chriatchuroh drainage district. Would 1| 1 not be better to consider this question from another point of view f 1 would firjjfc asij what would be said of a business SuA kfs&a* jog up a largo expensive ataft whea t;heis had been reduced to almost nil and the establishment virtually bankrupt. . N s w »,* We ,s *orytntjcn the poaition 6f thoPralnage Board at the present tim»« The i&te Mr F. Jones, together with Mr A, M. Oliivier and eovoml others, aooaa ago recognised the evil complained of, but after several meetiaga at the Cbtßell Chambers, the matter wag allowed to <lro», pertly from apathy of tho public &nd opho«te interests of othersi. I vetstnr® to that if the resolution then prepared by Mr F. Jones were carried into effect it wt*wS4 care this monstroae extortion, and make the City independent without extending tihia "seriowi grievunoe " upon a wider area, M «be rawpftyers would look a little obsw after their Interests this would soon fed accomplished,—Youre, &0., '' "