COMMUNIST PARTY’S POLICY
CANDIDATES FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS Messrs J. Locke and A. Ostler, the Communist Party's candidates for seats on the City Council at the coming municipal elections, will go to the poll on a policy of altering the rating system so that the main charge for city finances and improvements may be carried by those best able to bear it. says, the party’s election programme which was issued yesterday. “Amalgamation of outlying built-up areas, which at present share in the city’s amenities without contributing toward their cost, will be a step in this direction. The aim should be a fair method which will take less than at present from the small home owner, and more from big businesses and apartment houses,” it is stated. Road and street-lighting improvements, more pensioners’ cottages and blocks of flats, a town hall and civic centre and the amalgamation of all local bodies (including the Drainage Board and all passenger transport organisations) are listed among the other aims.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25321, 22 October 1947, Page 3
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