OPINIONS DIFFER

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 59, Issue 4252, 8 March 1950, Page 8

OPINIONS DIFFER

PRINCIPLE INVOLVED

WHO SHOULD PAY? •' COROMANDEL BRIDGE RATE i ■ t *T« wy sorry that Cr. Denize wiß aot bm hia way clear to «akfag this a aaaaiaraoa veto. It > limn at the tactics behind the • taamewtefa, tie habit of damning » a thing with faint graine or even t- dMrtfc it aJtegetimr,” said Cr. * T. V. Whittle, at th® March meetk IM ri th® Ceram an dal County I FIT-", when the matter of the [ tovyteg of a bridge rate was being I eiNMdderod hg the council. Cr. A. ; A Doriao had expressed the OldriM that the propeaal to levy & bridge ti*t —‘ u not be sup- . pnriodat a pell. *l/fe» can penuade thia or any BUMgiOprionment to built our bridged

even *• Gov ' Mghnbdt iiCnlj do no it would mean idring the tame thing for 500-odd other counties riri ft could not be MbtftiMfttttit'Qf.'Whfttle. For years a continual mulcthMLQfWriolo—inn money for repairM teWoo that should have been ropfoesd years age.? Or. Donteo: *1 Wvo boon very fair pwr thio mb go ter wait «M bo eeonMMy don<;itjwa my reaoene. he wrm« WWi generation to pay Kr hridjoi fir ibo next four gonerat£*r Mem ridWtaabMdßm have ; |s'U*V*tee the concrete ones will stand ■rihony or four times ho kMg. ” Wb lOPlMhMdtad per cent, cnee for ifMhgfrnrldiriy ft# bridges. Mil ; no'nrifc#able MprftOm Marino Department and you are an wrong, and opinion,” declared "1 agree with Cr. Mbs wo print tdo wish the IgjHf St bridbo Wm* bo exMftft Anrwpy griabori Bi pdanl umimri cf them and by that £■» wo Wffl nbt oaro who pays for it WhW Wthitimi go up people wilt bo Mhn|htt wo io reduce Ao gonerri MM tf My bam the bridge rate WwjL gni Wo hnoe stffl got to dip out Ife M* we, or any other epacfl, wßnribonhio to rednee thegeneral Mhk ThpftdlMfaiMdlontho liMf win have to ba maia-

tufaA Wb haw to strifes toe if Mgs Hfto wiwn wu require ft Mb toe bridge fa Cehrflte. If toe Re beta* sad fh« W a eubridy W wOTid b*e sIH to BWhr «ur Mb of to* M bridge. *XdHl*yunr we tori to take MOO <mi < iBMto Mr a teMfct to mwue money takeu fl* portends end wu* toot* toaa Itl jriS ntoi >f tot riding for tot ydferwWMls wrung. If we do not MttlttokMMif net strike tot rate.” r - lEk & H. Lt Boy-Dyoon: "Why not It* M mutter go to tot ratepayers wMb an open ariadt tor 10 months toeKnaetanu teMbohas boon unusable fsr feonvy fttaße and tot jeopto have te*fu* W with ft That is 1700 tot etontU wfb town had to find out of ito toto nMW. At totovorary bridgt h* cot* no MOO whem Mr Mart on a Mr b*Mge ft MOO nmfcing MOO writes ft nbdjMly coat w M tot «• fUghe hatoidninrt oaamo* bo wrong and mo dfifcft Cr. Mm it Mmadf agates* too M#t rate hot he should nt* lafitsnri hft ratepayers. Ht Mdd ft* toe* go to toe pell with an apM urind.; This ft tot assuror to tot question of repairing «w Wdgto and writaMnteg tor toate.” Iho shaljmas, Mr B. Detole, said ton* people Mould roalioo the amount of toonty that had boon spent on rofU*» to bridgee, money which should Into Maa tiftni on tho roads. Cr. Mtor MB ■* influence Ma rato'itefe’W we Aft vote fanooiOf, Ma to use their own Judgment. Cr. F. H.JUrdom: "The ■writ* of too bridge rate speak for tonalihrsi. Lsaw ft at that," I* was. finally proposed by too toateiMa and eoasnded hr Cr. Furdam toa* a poll of intepegseu ba taken on too oroposal of brytor a bridte •Oto •* tot eartest epporlanfty afito «ato to bo Banted toon* tpM Mr to ton A on too capital 4m ftlteriif tarried toe me*toa» Cr. MtoMOttrto< hft vote acafnst toe