SUMNER RATES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19690, 6 August 1929, Page 11

SUMNER RATES.

*0 THX EPI-roa Of THE THES*. Sir.—Like "Ratepayer" I tave received ray rat€ demand from t e ner Borough Council, ancl , t * . amount is much in excess ot B paid last year, and upon perusal I fan thai the Council have ra ! sec eral rate CI of a penny « over what u was ious'L ; ha J ar j this? is it because ot some haphazard method of expenditure:- . I a!>o would like to present Council require more, mone> than the previous Business - - Council. As far a. the work in he borough is CMiHvin.-d 1 consider that -very bit as much »ork the roads Here in tetter order than tliev are now Sure'v Suniiur is nan di<-Api>ed sufficiently by h«»»S di.-,tanc-».« from the C t :v without th * tremendous rise in rates. 1 ' u ® time that the Council mtorme.l tm. people of the borough why this 1 ere: so in tatt* ha., taken place.-* ours, *' tc " DISGUSTED. August oth, 19*29. TO TUT EDITOR 0* Tilt TKESS. Sir,—On receiving uiy rat* notice, L was atiecusi quite differently from •Ratepayer." 1 rejoiced. Knowing what, i lie business men in the last couin il had UoiiCj J was not the least surprised that the rates vveie up. " Ratepayer' otters a very poor compliment to them when lie states that alter their tirst term ot oilice the are "the heaviest 1 have ever paid. Obviously there were no economies; and the increase has been torced upon the present Council in order to meet the losses sustained hv the crew that wrecked the "isliip of State ' anu, abandoning it, left a sick captain to pilot it to port. I think we are downright lucky to get off so lightly.— Yours, etc.. CHEERIO. Sumner, August oth, 1929.