ROSLYN AND AMALGAMATION.

Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 3

ROSLYN AND AMALGAMATION.

TO IHE EDITOR. Sir, —Suffering ;ie 1 (with many other Roslyn residents) do from what ive consider the neglect of the authorities, 1 sympathise with your correspondent “ Jhtlmore.” It does, intlcd, seem hard that people, who pay large sums in rates .should have to, put up with halt-formed streets, in order that more money may be available to put other districts into apple-pie order. “Dalmorc’’ may perhaps derive a little comfort from the reflection that hie district is not the only one. neglected, and that the City Corporation are not the only body found fault with. A walk through some of our Itoslyn streets would convince him of this. There are streets here sorely in need of attention, on winch not 5 per cent, of the geneial rate levied on their resident? has been expended duiing the past year. Wo who pay naturally feel somewhat aggrieved, but the. point was .met. and in my opinion disposed of, by His Worship the Mayor, who, speaking at the meeting lately hold in the Wakari Hall, showed that the rates of a borough should bo applied to the most urgently-needed works, and that consequently some places must of necessity appear to be overlooked for the time. fy'e who are inconvenienced by defects which loom so Luge because at our doors, out of which, we may sometimes not step except into the mire, must, however, remember that ail places are, not ill-kept, and that before long the inarch of improve ment will replace our muddy ‘ tracks with well-mada sheets, which our fellow-citizens will assist us to pay for. With the latter paragraph of “ T)almore’ft” letter I cannot agree. Ho gives as a reason why Uoslyn should not join tho City an alleged fact—viz.., that it would have only one representative, on the council, and that the Municipal Act will not allow more than 21 members in the council. What ground? lie has for the first assertion I do not know. Perhaps he. could explain. Ad for the Act, if 21 men cannot properly rule tho City, Parliament, which mads the law, surely has power to amend li. My chief objection, however, is to the implication that without agitation by local members, sent to the council to push the interests of * particular district, that- district will not have fair play. I trust it is possible to find among us 21 men to whom we cw confide oar interests, not merely ss residents in a particular street, but as citizens; and w r ho, in tho administration of affairs, will be actuated by the spirit of true citf/eivdiip.—l am, etc., ft. August 27.