RATES IN NEW BRIGHTON.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19063, 27 July 1927, Page 11

RATES IN NEW BRIGHTON.

TO THE EDITOR 07 THE PBEBS. Sir, —As a ratepayer, may I crave a little space in your columns to protest against the gross injustice of rating on the unimproved value. Like many other working men, I thought the easy j terms on which sections were offered at New Brighton would be a safe in--1 vestment and good, enabling a worker 1 to obtain a section. Great is my sur- } prise to find the South Brighton rates ; equal to nearly seven per cent, on the 1 unimproved value. We are rated for a j library which we have no chance of . using, as we are prevented from build- !. ing by the high rates added to the in- . terest on unpaid purchase money. To • add to this, many of the sections, esi pecially on the, sea front, have 110 - road, and the drifting sand prohibits ■ the cartage of building material to the 1 same. In spite of these heavy rates > nothing is done with the money to form ' the Esplanade. Our rates seem to be ' spent solely on Estuary road, and the [ remainder in catering for motor tourists who spend nothing in the district. I should like to know why a small section should bear the whole of the cost of constructing a bridge at South Brighton, which benefits no one except those • living on the Bridge road. It does not make Pleasant Point one quarter of a • mile nearer the City. Had a polling 1 booth been provided in the City, so that the workers who, by thrift and 1 economy, are striving to make a homo ' of their own, had been able to vote, I think the poll would have gone otherwise. On a section valued at £45 the rates for the bridge alone are £1 Os Bd, and it will be years before many workers are able to build on their own sections, in which for years past many have placed all their savings. . It is only those who are able to build to whom the bridge would be of the slightest utility. Why should the people of South Brighton have to pay for this bridge —and also contribute to the main bridge!— Yours, etc., WORKING MAN. PIGS AND APPLES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PBESS. Sir, —A letter appeared in your correspondence column in your issue of the 22nd under the' above heading over the signature of Mr George Lee. Doubtless there are many like myself who would like to know more of his system of feeding, as, whether other foods were used with the apples, etc. Knowing Mr Lee is always ready to broadcast his knowledge gained by his experiments, I trust you will spare a little space for this letter and a little more for Mr Lee's reply. The importance of Mr Lee's achievement of producing 2881b of pork in six months has shown a very practical way of utilising what is often a valueless by-product. To increase production is the need of the hour. In my youthful days I remember seeing the long, lean pigs running in . the cider orchards of the West of England, but never remember seeing a fat one under such conditions. How important Mr Lee's discovery is I would like to show by comparison with an' American, experiment to determine the breed capable of producing the most pork under similar conditions. The pigs were ..all purebred and fed on oats, peas, corn meal, middlings, and skim milk. I select a Berkshire as most nearly conforming to Mr Lee's pig, and one that did well. At the start it weighed 281b, and was fed 266 days, say nipe months, when it weighed 2671b Mr Lee's pig, six weeks old at the start —about the same weight as the American pigsafter six months' feeding 'weighed ,2881b. in three months less time than it took the American to produce 2671b gain in weight about lib per day, Mr Lee's pig, after allowing 281b for his weight at the start, put on 1.441b per day. The reports of the American experiment can be. found on page 545 of Henry's book on ft Feeds and Feeding." —Yours, etc., A. H. WHEELEE. Styx, July 25th.