WATER SUPPLY LOAN.
TO TIIE EDITOR. Sir,—One notices that by a carefully-drawn resolution the City Council havo decided to again submit tho £65,000 loan to a vote of the ratepayers. Now, anyone reading the Municipal Corporations Act, 1886, from section 177 onwards, cannot fail to doubt whether there is the power given therein to take this second ballot. Certainly, if there be such, then there is nothing to prevent a third, or even a fourth. Surely it was never intended to frustrate tho wishes of ratepayers as expressed through a first ballot.—l am, etc., Fredk. Mallard. August 13. [Our correspondent misapprehends altogether the scope and intent of the Act. The local body has full power to further test the mind of the ratepayers, but, of course, if the loan were rejected a second time by a substantial majority the Council would stay their hands. But the closeness of the division on the first poll, and the knowledgo that the apathy of the ratepayers was due to ascertainable causes, have fully warranted the Council in agai.j testing tho feeling of the burgesses on this important question.—Ed. E.S.] _
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Evening Star, Issue 11318, 13 August 1900, Page 3
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186WATER SUPPLY LOAN. Evening Star, Issue 11318, 13 August 1900, Page 3
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