RATING BURDENS.
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—The position of ratepayers m the city is becoming desperate. Everyday we see the price of farm products getting lower, which reacts upon oui business men and workers generally. Hardly a day goes past but that complaints are heard of the pressure o rating taxation upon families. v find that our rates are practically only meeting interest on past debts an maintaining a staff to collect them, yet we find our City Fathers increasing the salaries of . those .who are amply provided for while on the otliei hand we find the upkeep of . streets and new sewerage systems being tended to by No. 5 men, and river protection works also. We have just witnessed a Bill in the House of 1 armament to do away with the 10 per cent, surcharge on overdue rates, but, sir, this is not enough. The day lias arrived when a huge meeting of ratepays is necessary to force reforms both on our City Fathers and Rai [lament. Trusting, sir, that this will be a forerunner, and hoping that this will be an incentive to other ratepayers to save the ship before we are all wrecked.—l am, i wu OVERBURDENED RATEPAYER.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 6
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