WHAT’S IN THE WIND ?

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 April 1910, Page 1

WHAT’S IN THE WIND ?

(To the Editor.) • S il'- -Hlsl Imld nil ,'i lllliilli ■' Xut I I"" Ins'- m e, MI 11 eel j. ,p with a CO,a nge !ml he landlordism of l lie t Hey tit f Native lleserve. <>n your lirsl page ~t i las! night > i site the in w I\-a pp. int ,| ) I'llblie I lilste, is ei’eiill' d with tile | 'I 'll ■ men t , licit tin re is a .jj ( p. hn i h pa rl nnnl in mui ii<t: imi with nie ad | l oilli sll ci 111 a i uf Native Lands '1 Inn. j"i your . 1 1 1 1 . 'll al . you ,ni\the j'., c\ Hoi,.null (.'. Mii.eil pureli imp ■ and 1 ad in it ist iat pm ih. ie.-ai Ala,..’ i lands : I i !:i '. 1 *' lll ,' r. pj y ur L.c.,1 culiiinns !.■■ 11 s( i; v, ;-d ila red, mu the | ma's." ill ■! all pi’cscin at ihe ' ■llly. Is l ilt ■: iaiiiino ~f j IdiMmit I -veie ii, ’in.hi is ' Jn (in- iiimi plena. i ii’ ill” Tlll.lt ’ ’I | list I Mi" ■ I - indue I vide ill” .imi ra 1 s' a m , m ~t lii a eh let I*\I• | ! lie ,11 i Ini il Isi .’.lt ,I’H of I native aft airs, does that a 15... ;n an a ! I" ss ill tile iat licit lilt- I’.’is, .! h • local |. s’l ves .’ 1 1 mu. why wa- am. ia-ral ! n.-t« ii'" in lent , 1 1. ii i a ltd,, 1 j rum i. mil 1 nants ! Again, if Air TVli.x Camp‘‘"il fid his -.upp. >f 1 1 ■ > s in. this change "i "win i ship ai ■ • sin h pi of, w j h e - holders why try ,M uimipai i -etl mt as - l I■' nee-a , I Hemp ly the Hi ~ aigli 'manna! passed n solutions praying the pole! JiCll dim rilllH'llt to pias.S egjsla- ; i tun so as In ,allow Hie ('.nineii to

buy tile fee simple uf these nserves for something like £IIO,OOO. And then 100, mark ye, they also prayed ■ C p '-.i secure the interest on the necessary ban on a special caio •■over tie whole in the rating area within ill" Ih.nuiL'ii Ihe tr. i.‘hold md all "iher Jtasellohis arc t.j be nori gaged tor what. ! Ihe answer is ;■■ nb.nuis. the public debt, oi this Borough m in d'ed very large at present and it we aiv to make any pu.gress in ; lie future what ihance of obtaining money ■'!' a fan 1 price tor pn-guv-sr," work's would futurity haw with this additional hundred thousand •idd.d to ~m indebtedness.' Kxceptmg, perhaps, ■'.'a st;.. is in iin Mmut lea,, hold pornon oi tlte Borough : the road- ale in a bad way—and w hat oi those s ( iii it on tin outskirts win h.e • Dai it -stD-taiitini dwellings and have no ~ mi or ace -s to I hen proper! ees except what they lU. Ills Ives 1, a\ e pi,.vide,j > u iiie we \ ... 11 ad,s and iram ~ I; i . i nil- lie ni; IP ,ua r. ~t |a , i,■ blip oi these ii‘s,"i V. s was hit ■■! tnun tile Council and a pivgi e.e.i, ■ ■ poinw Undertaken, a policy mat will ipnetly ( e.ciu la. 1,.1 till, catena y ers and m l stay the pioguss . g in,. |, >%vil to liiene.o a iniiidliit oi leasehold,.-I a Th • borough 'on nci 1h u s i-aniMt c, nil :i '!eniu manage their present dnances and. il : Is- v ;■ i . 1,., ra. • 1 ’ !l ' ■i n Irem iJi. I - üblic I i list > )f;j.. may .-xpcct liiiancial Ii a. .s worn, i unfounded. The Dublin lru-t re ‘■ei.es 7d per cen';. for inamig ..mi 1 cxp -uses ; this evidently does mu |, a\e even a small margin of protit, i, ( ~ur piitlanr ii ropie city fathers piupi.se lo 'grant a has, lor 0u years at a *■i• Ia I of foil r per ceil! u III on ihe cost to the Borough uf the holdings purchased I" 'I he purchase niouev is to bear -I per , ,-nt. m I nisi, so \on see wtr-t a spl-ndid thing this v.oiiM be b r the i'or, ll, gii - a veritable Kid,, .a.do! Deriit.ps I have alfe idy elicrottched (no liberally on your space out would !ik.■ to say, in conclusion, that il tile lessees are desirous of the ii,..hold. 1 h ave no i bji’ct ions. will sink all my single lav principles, provided they "i.iise •Ic wind" outside the (trey Borough Council and if the .Mauri can be pejsua led to sellwhich is indeed very doubilul--1 I if he done privately or through some mere sage and affluen* body than (he local civic corporal ion. I am,