RAPACIOUS RICHMOND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8433, 16 March 1893, Page 3

RAPACIOUS RICHMOND.

R TO THE EDITOR OF THB PRXSS. IJ Sib, —Your paragraph in to-day's issue I respecting my action in the City Council on Monday evening is quite misleading. The folain inference is that I have been antagon-j las tic to the Richmond ward of the city. On |the contrary, I supported tiie vote of £1001 Pfor a public bath there, several other vaiv or i votes, and on Monday evening supported | the motion for acquiring lands to straighten Stanmore road and the River road by Bowron's, and seconded the motion for tele4>honic communication between the Richmond police station and the Central Exchange. The question of a bridge over the river in continuation of the East belt has been brought forward several times by the Richmond members, and will, I know, be before the Council for the coming year's estimates. The expenditure of public money should be made on a fair basis to all contributors, and that the Richmond ward has been more than fairly treated ie provable by the following figures:— Richmond is allowed three members to the Council (the city has twelve); its population at last census was 1421 (city 14,874), and its rates amounted to £328 9a lid {city £10,248). The gross receipts from the ■ward from its inception in August, 1890, to March, 1893, £1120, and expenditure for a like period £1420, showing excess of expenditure of £300, and that without any charge for departmental expenses, plant, repairs, &c. The cost of road widening as agreed to on Monday evening will be a considerable item for addition to the above deficit. I bear tribute to the earnestness and zeal of the Richmond members in Council work, bub as a city member I think it unfair that Richmond should be allowed so many members in the Council or expect a larger expenditure than the gross amount of its races.—Yours, &c, Arthur Applebt (Member N.W. Ward).