BOROUGH LOANS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1445, 25 October 1911, Page 5

BOROUGH LOANS.

THE COUNCIL AND THE BATE PAYERS.

JDISCUSBED BY THE CHAMBER OV 'COMMERCE.

PUBLIC WORKS LOAN SUP

PORTJSU.

it] At, the, meeting of tlio Chamber of id Oommerce last evening the Chairman 1 (Capt. Bayilon) brought up the matt- tor of tlio three borough loaus bsing 10 thrown out, and said that it was a o- shame that tlio public works loan s- solionie should havo been lost, This in last proposal was a most important r. one nnd should have been oarried. |y Tlio Mayor siid ho iutonded potting 1W the public works lean before the i ratepayers again lu another way There were ceitaiu ratepayers who •y would block vote againEt anything, ie and there wero other ratepayers who c . would not vote at all. Tlio Chamber , cf Commerce wns as much interested K as the Uonnoll. y Mr Harden: What about the Citi--1 zens' Longuo? The Chairman: That body is dead intil nest election comes along. U Mr Harden eaid that it was a pity ! . loan had ken thrown out. A :3m? previous to the, poll someone weSi vertiaed asking the ratspayers had .to. nta for trj£ loans. Councilnot? fo 1 "'] cornbac this sort of thing tors ahbDL ratepayers to carry the andgefffln eu put before them, proposals- wh -\s urgently necessary. Some action.' l?i said he know who ' The GJlipirrrma . s, the advertiser' m*. that it was most Mr Gardner" said > public works unfortunate that" tht . 'amber should loan was lest. The Oil Gouucil in do its best to assistr ffhe ' hoped the snoh matters,, and fra , proposal Council would bring to forward again. 'ouncil Mr Black said that the' L. nos-'l should bring up the bath pto\ i u again as well, as it was need«d -i Palmerston. It would be oawlt next time. Mr Harden wanted to know if tU ' Golf Club put in a large bath at the Golf Links whore water was yoinpf to waste, would the Borough Council subsldiso the Club? The Chairman said' he did not know. It was resolved on tlie motion of Mr Eliott, seconded by Mr Harden, that this Chamber views with regret that the reueut poll lor a publio fforksloan was defeated and in view Df the laot that the margin uy which iliis loan was lost was so small, and ;hat probably itany ratepayers, who yore in favour of the loan, negeoted to vote, this Chamber suggests ;o the Mayor and Couucillois the idvisability of again placing this oan before the latepayers and the )liamber pledges itself "to support it. The motion was carried unanimously.