PRIVATE INTERESTS AND PUBLIC WORKS.
j TO THE EDITOR. i Sir, — There is a statutory law which a prohibits membsrs of local bodiea having i trading relations with the bodies to which i- they belong. There is, however, no law s preventing those with large landed in- , terests using such a position for private - ends. It would seem only honourable for s thoss largely interested in land affected & by the public works of a local body to e> abstain from speaking or voting on questions directly affecting their own private i interests; or, failing that, after advancing - their own work, -they might at least allow without hindrance the completion of . works in localities from which, they de- | rive no personal benefit. It might be well if some law were passed prohibiting interested members of local bodies from taking part in discussion or . voting upon, questions such as those mentioned. — I am, etc., TRAMP. , Brooklyn, 14th July.
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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 14, 17 July 1905, Page 2
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