RUBBISH REMOVAL
(To The Editor) Sir, —A number of correspondents • have been writing letters lately about a forced charge for the collection of . the rubbish they do not have. So impressed have I been with the close reasoning, the clear logic, the penetrating insight into civic affairs displayed in these letters that 1 J have been moved to think of other parallel cases of injustice to which we lrcedom-loving Britons have too long submitted. Like these correspondents I believe that only those who have rubbish to collect should have to pay for it. We should, in short, pay for the services we need and not for that we do not need or want. The same thing applies to the police force. lam law abiding, Mr Wilkinson requires no policeman to keep him in j order. There is hardly a man in Nelson who really needs a policeman. Yet every one of us pays for the upkeep of the police force. The thing is a crying scandal. Let law breakers pay for this service. And wars. Who wanted the last war? | Who wants the next one? Not Mr Wil- i kinson, not the various “Protesters,” then why should they pay for it. Yet they do, and so do I. And there are, I or were, the unemployed, whom nobody | wanted Did Mr Wilkinson want some i “unemployed”? Of course not. Then why should be pay for them? A useless luxury as far as he was concerned. There are also to be considered the
East Coast railway, the municipal sports ground, all North Island concerns, nearly all South Island concerns, the new storage sheds at the wharf, certain medical, educational and scientific institutions, and the Public Library, Does Mr Wilkinson himself personally tequire any of these? Of course he does not. He can and does get along very well without them. Then why should he pay for them? Let those who use a service pay for it! The dead, of course, would have to fork out , for their own funerals and that would be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce, so perhaps we might make an exception of the dead, and lay down for the rulers of out city “Wilkinson’s Law”: All services shall be paid for by those who actually wish to use them, with the exception that the dead shall be buried at the expense of the living.— I am. etc., YET- ANOTHER-AND-EVEN-MORE VOCIFEROUS-PROTESTER. Nelson, 30th January. j
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 3
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