GREATER AUCKLAND.
Sit*,—i rota _ lime to , time wo hart spasmodic attempts to bring, about a Greater Auckland, and it seems to mo the reason it. is not consummated is the lack of cohesion amongst the ratepayers, and the determined attitude of some landlord* not to pay a fraction more rates, even it it meant the stamping out lot typhoid , and (other dirtdiseases, and, lastly, but principally, the determination of our suburban: aldermen not to part- with their dignity and dirt. As to the cry that the rates would be, increased by a Greater Auckland, I flunk in some instances they would be substantially reduced. Take Newmarket. The general rate is Is 6d per £ and 9d special rata*, domestic water Is per £ and P.O. 30* per annum, of 9d per £; total, 4s in the £ rental. All this for the pleasure of living in what is called " Dirty'' Newmarket. There is also the cry of the large suras the city is spending and going to spend; do these people tako no pride in their city? For it is their city, and the advancement of it must bring kudos to them, and much of the money spent in the city on parte and gardens, for instance, is of very material use to the suburbanite, and hundreds of residents of Newmarket will benefit by the Grafton bridge, for which they will never need to pay a penny, «No city has ever Achieved much when governed by a multitude of local bodies, and Auek land in not going to be the exception. Glasgow charges its citizens 5d in the £ rental for water, and urges them to use it freely, as that me/ins cleanliness both of bodies' and backyards. 'Newmarket charges 3s 9d in the £ rental, and offers a bonus to the turncock for catching residents who use it too freely. Suburbanites, awake to your responsibilities, and agitato for a Greater Auckland, if for nothing else than drainage. Take Mr. Taylor's advice, a man of wide experience, and unite Ax Oxer,.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13672, 13 February 1908, Page 7
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