THE MUSEUM SUGGESTION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 83, 20 March 1928, Page 9

THE MUSEUM SUGGESTION.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I see it is suggested now that we should go in for a museum. Well, in my opinion our rates are too high already. Every house in Hastings, nearly, is for sale. If the rates go on piling up as they have clone, 1 for one am going to sell what property 1 have. Let some very wealthy man give a museum if he wants to do so. A while ago I told a friend, a skilled workman to sell his house. 1 said, “You will spend all your life paying for it, and you will have paid its value in rates as well, and in your old*age you will have to sell because you cannot pay rates and live in Je cent comfort. He took my advice and has gone outside the borough and got a little land on which he can work while work is slack in his trade, and not be hanging about as skilled workmen have had to do this last two years.

But if the Council bought the land behind the Power House and Theatre and erected tepid baths below: and a Turkish bath-house, etc., above on part of it, and on the Lyndon road site erected Municipal Markets they would he doing something which would pay.—l am etc. E.L. Hastings. 19/3/28.