ONEHUNGA AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18929, 29 January 1925, Page 7

ONEHUNGA AFFAIRS.

Sir, —Ar a reader of your paper and a dweller in the apathetic district of Onehunga I crave space to draw the attention of all fair-minded people to the ambiguous attitude adopted by the majority of the Borough Council toward the Ratepayers Association formed in our town. According to the report in your paper, sir, these elected representatives of the people, although admitting that they had freely allowed bodies representing the commercial interests to use the Council Chamber for money-making purposes pure and simple, these same people refuse definitely to allow the only body formed in the district with money-saving ideas, and ratepayers at that, the same privilege. One must admire the two or three outspoken gentlemen,who, although outvoted, and having no axe to grind, yet asked for equal rights for equal bodies. I trust that the people of this district will no longer allow things to drift as in the past, but will wake up and demand to know why their property is to be made use of by one section of the community and yet denied to another of equal merit and repute, and let each "reader take a walk On Sunday morning and inspect the finished No. 1 Roading Contract and if he or she is satisfied, then I will admit that a ratepayers association is not necessary $r worthy of assistance in Onehunga. Reasonable.