THE PROPOSED SALEYARDS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXVII, Issue 1547, 7 May 1901, Page 3

THE PROPOSED SALEYARDS.

TO TIIE KMTOH. But, —We are to give our vote on Wednesday for or against loading ourselves with a deiit cf LIOOO for the erection of saley.irds. New saleyards are needed, not by the ratepayers, but by the auctioneers, and possibly by the farmers. Why should we, who do not need them, build them for those who do, and who are far better able to do so than we. So long as it wns clear that the yards would be profitable there could be no great objection to the loan, but Mr ,T. W. Mitchell's accurate figures iu his letter last w"ek make the profit very doubtful. Then there is the hopeless muddle about the site. We were to be allowed by our vote to decide <vh:it should be the site ; but out of the three tes mentioned it is an open secret that Mr Dunne's has been condemned by several auction' ers--it is too small—too low in situation— ai d too high in price; the reserve at the gasworks has been condemned by the school committee ; whilst the third (Mr Sinclair's) has ii>eu struck off tin: list by the Borough Counc : l. Under these circumstances there is nothing left for prudent ratepayer:;, bill, to vote agiinst lhe loan. I am, etc., liATIU'AVHII.