KIWITEA LOAN POLL.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3829, 4 July 1919, Page 3

KIWITEA LOAN POLL.

EMPLOYEES' ACCOMMODATION LOAN. The question of providing adequate accommodation for County omployces is one which has exorcised the minds of Councillors and the oHicials for some considerable time, and on Tuesday next a poll is to bo taken on tho proposal to borrow £10,000 for t!ie purpose of dealing with tho in alter. Tho idea- is to purchase, where suitable reserves are not available, areas , of land sufficient to run a cow aad a, horse, find in these areas to erect employees' homes. Where houses on suitablo areas now exist' and can be bought reasonably, the Council will purchase them.

At tlie present time roadmen are depending o.u tho public for their houses. Any unused or discarded farm-house has to suffice, and often sufficient grazing for a house cow cannot be secured on these farms. The roadmen are, indirectly, tho servants of tho ratepayers and consequently the ratepayers will sco that to get the best class of servant good housing must be provided. Men who know that a good houso with a lew acres ol land is available will seek tho positions offering, and the result will bo that the best labour offering can be secured. The Council wishes men to look on these places as "homes," and not merely as places to live in. The Council has ficen very fortunate in making .arrangements to secure the loan on most advantageous terms, viz., for 3G at 5| per cent, per annum, plus 1 per cent, sinking fund, a total of £(¥25 per annum. This sum will not be a charge on the ratepayers. Each employee will pay rent according to the cost of the property he occupies. In some isolated cases the rent may not meet the interest, but these cases will he very few, and it will not be a serious item over a County whoso capital value now stands at 3] millions sterling. Ratepayers are reminded of tlie poll on Tuesday next and are urged to assist the Council in this most progressive move by recording their'votes for tho proposal. "Better accommodation" nirans "the best incn offering" and "the better the men tho better the roads." Be Progressive.