THE PROPOSED LOAN.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 947, 19 September 1901, Page 2

THE PROPOSED LOAN.

to int. UilTOlt. Viu. X,- VV M» ..... •«-l issue i.-.Mi i,a cGibbon's letter in your claims tm.i he «»■ ;'""'•'» [donations. Ho on thu dislin,-I «t» , ' l,r "- 1 ' l,y J"' 1 "«<V*y<*l uecc.sary work* 1.-r^»„,|„. K tl,»t a loan for w ..ever ...» T'' 1 ,'"; M""'"" 1 - " H °' " .a* to sati> ,f''' lh ,' lt ll "; r " l "l">"™ were such-i> tin »i' ""-"n-lve* itint tli.'Wn was W.V.'. • h """ l ' l " m " ovc "'• N " w ' ,1,,: r,,t<: - I work whV • n " K"» r -"Jto: »|'»l '>'" "Irainiwe will be • ' P ru l" ): l ''l lvl " ,w i-tlmtivo, and i onlv olfiJ ; " el "' J ' l ( ' JI ' tll,! ra """ v - Thore '* J ,■] J . jd un estimate framed liy 'he Couti Ij' r. . ' ,ut having a.-.curtained tin; exact I ' ( : , .vhicli are necessary. The illustration I ' "•'' man building a hou»u tor himself ill ! lC 'l'" r ' luncc with his linaiicos scarcely applies ' ;*'*' uheme of drainage for a town so dilli- | "en it to drain us Gore. Of course, the implied I"' »f .ver is, if the money now u;,k'id for is ' .01 sullieient mori: money must be borrowed, fh ; ratepayers should determine whether the y are willing to vote the money asked wit 'wilt knowing what they will receive for it. I 1 'he asphalting of footpaths, which homtchul lers have pn.viou-.ly had to pay the half of, he proposes to do at the eost of the whole s of t 1e ratepayers. There are dry level foot- . patl \i in all the streets, and asphalt can be ; pro> ided where required on the same terms as v ere Riven to houseowners in other parts of tl 10 town without any necessity for borrowin;;. Water for lite prevention, we are asJ dure 1 liy some Councillors, can be provided for I alf the money pinposcd to be borrowed. Mr S lacUibbon thinks it a sound investment to be 'row and spend 14"i0 on the Kaleyards, althc ugh the business has greatly diniimshod, and i < not likely to be increased, owing to the pract ce largely followed of farmcih selling thfir sheep at. their farms. His FtaUment thutt he yards in winter are unfit for us* in, to put it mildly, an exaggeration. The £3OO to be i Kirrowod for the bridge is unnecessary. I As the County Council are to pay an equal share with Gore, and probably the Government a portion of the cost. £l.lO will be suflioie nl, which can be paid out of the year'i revenu •• £llOO is asked for East Gore, which i eems a Urge turn, seeing that £450 wa» x*t sntly paid for drainage to that wud—