NEW BRIGHTON LOAN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16883, 10 July 1920, Page 9

NEW BRIGHTON LOAN.

to THE EDITOR 0* "THS TRESS.'' | Sir, —Sugar at 6d, milk at 7d, bread £ at Cd, houses at any price, trani faros «r ; gone up, taxation still going up, yet the. Brighton Council purposes to k double our rates by burdening tho ratepayers with a loan of £52,000 on a sparsely populated borough of a litt-lo moro than 900 acres. And what for? To finish all the roads and make new out's, | that run for miles along tho sand-hills, |i to asphalt and channel nino and a hair |.; w miles of footpaths, a good part of ft, which run in front of speculators' sec- J J tions, on which, in some cases, there is |' not a house for nearly a quarter of a mile; to build elaborato public convcni- '■ encea on tho beach, which they will || have to pay a man £3 or £4 a week to look after; to buy a new fire ongino to | save the insurance companies money; to fj put up new Council Chambers, which p are not wanted, 'and at a time when jjj people cannot got material to pi 'build a small house; doing .this and a Hj lot more unnecessary things when jjj everything is at an enormous price, and | small ratepayers can hardly make both £ ends meet with a sovereign not worth I more than 12s Gd.—Yours, ctc., is BRIGHTON. I