MAORI HILL SQUATTERS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In describing the activities of the squatters at- Maori Hill, your reporter says that “ the removal, of, the gas njeter was still the only unfriendly gesture that had 'bqen made,” Your report could justifiably have ; used a much stronger term “ unfriendly.” The squatter is a returned soldier of the First World Wax. He was promised a world fit for' heroes to live in. Further, the Atlantic Charter guarantees freedom from want.' Our City Fathers, to my knowledge, believe in the Atlantic Charter. This returned soldier,.-who apparently lives on a penr sion, wants. gas ? and our patriotic Mayor and.council won’t let him have it. For a vacant house rates are. not payable, but how it is'occupied the council will charge arid collect rates. I am, etc., Mark Silverstone. v April 30. > ■ [Our correspondent is in error in stating that rates are ’not payable for a vacant house, the local practice being that the house must be unoccupied and vacant fpr six months during the- rating year before it qualifies for a rebate 1 of half rates.—Ed., E.S,] :
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Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 8
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183MAORI HILL SQUATTERS. Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 8
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