THE NEW LOAN.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 111, 11 May 1889, Page 2

THE NEW LOAN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin— Will you kindly allow me space for a few remarks anent the proposed uew city loan, which is, I am glad to boo, receiving moie than passing attention at the hands of those concerned. The schedule of proposed works is, with the exception of the single item "drainage," simply another dire at the pockets of the unfortunate ratepayers for the purpose of gratifying the whims and fads of a certain section of the community without reference to or studying the justice of the matter with regard to the burgesses of Cook and Te Aro Wards. But if the inhabitants of those wards are true to themselves and will not allow their apathy or indifference to causo them to defeat their own best interest?, I feel assured that their votes will, in co» junction with numbers from tho other wardr, defeat the raising of the proposed new loan —at all events until Buch time as a more just and equitable scheme is propounded. I notice that such a thing as a public markot, which would, unlike the majority of the works proposed, be reproductive, is entirely eschewed or forgotten. There are several capital sites at present available for the purposes of amarket, which in the usual course of events will gradually become monopolised for other less appropriate purposes to the working classes. And here let me enpeusant just draw the attention ot the civic body to the state of tho streets in this immediate neighbourhood. Doubtless the exceptional good weather that we have been enjoying ot late has made the authorities fall into a state of false security with regard to them ; but the mistake will make itself felt all the more keenly after the first wet weather, and their state of pockpitedness will be displayed and felt with full vengeance. Though not in the habit of having recourse to letter-writing to redress a wrong, still 1 consider that tho exigencies of the case demands special treatment from all concerned, therefore I deviate from my usual routine, and will feel obliged if you will kindly give the foregoing Bpace when convenient. I am, &0., B. Oxnkr. Princess Theatre Hotel, Tory-street, 9th May, 1889.

We hear that G. Flyger, late of the Wesb Coast, ia about to start business in tbe premises lately oconpied by Jas. Huxley in the Exchange Buildings.