SUMNER RATES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 17

SUMNER RATES.

TO THE EDIToa OT THE PBESB. Sir, —I noticed a lettef from a Sumner ratepayer regarding his rates. 1 quite agree with him. Mine have also increased and I expect everyone else's. I think foi a small borough like Sum ner they are pretty stiff. I often won der what the Council does with all the rates they get; 1 don't see very much done aa regards improvements. Con sidering that they have between 25 and 30 employees engaged, there is not very mucn to show at the vear's end. We have a sort of hit-and-miss Council —start a job and never finish it. They seem to have no system of doing any tiling, and the ratepayers

never know what anything costs or what is going on. Ail that is pub lished at their meetings is worthless as far as real information goes. 1 was informed the other day' that t;K.V have installed an engine of tome *ort at Shag Rook reservoir to pump wat«}» at a cost of about five hundred pomnisIf that is true how many ratepayer* know anything about it? The reason given, I have been told, is that thf old engine made so much noise that neighbours were complaining. Most neighbours never heard it, as they live too far away There is no encouragement given to people to ootne and live here in any shape or form. I believe Sumner n About fifty years old, and yet there are plenty of other places not a tenth that age which are miles ahead €>f it.—Yours, etc., ANOTHER RATEPAYER. August 6th, 1929.