ST. KILDA RATES AND AMALGAMATION.

Evening Star, Issue 19310, 24 July 1926, Page 11

ST. KILDA RATES AND AMALGAMATION.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir, —Being a supporter of amalgamation and getting badly “on ted ” last poll, I will again bring up the argument. All my anti-amalgamation friends said “ Don’t vote for amalgamation,” because “ up will go your rates.” I replied : “It won’t matter whether you vote ‘ anti ’ or ‘ for,’ your rates will go up any way.” I have been living in the borough for seven years. My first rates were £5 odd, now they are £9 8s 9d. Will they be £l3 10s in another seven years? My crib of five moms and corner section (100 by 50) cost me £565 (cheap, I will admit, on present-day values), but would I bo paying any more if in the city, where the extra benefits are worth a shilling or two more? The only benefit 1 have received since last year lias been an electric light outside my gate, but I think I have paid dearly for this—lss on to my rates. The next-door neighbor’s rates are £7, with a better house. My 10ft of garden cost me Is a week more. Pretty solid. I don’t think I reap that amount m vegetables in a year (with the assistance of earwigs).—-1 am, ote.., Delighted. July 24.