THE TOWN BELT.
(To thc-MiiorMf.the Otago Dai&¥~Timbs.£ Sir—l notice from your issue of yesterday in the report of: ihe proceedings of the City xOoancil, that Mr R. Gillies hair applied far * lease of a section of the Town Belt, relinquished by Mr Driver. It does not .yet appear how the Council intends to deaf with the application; bat as a citizen, Jieavfly taxed for the improvement of the town, I emphatically protest against any of the sections which have, been abandoned,, being disposed of, except by public competition, so thatthe highest rents may be obtained, andihe public generally have an opportunity of bidding, should they feel disposed. I confess to having been much surprise*! at the application referred to r as- I understand Mr Gillies is the gentleman who took the most active part in opposing the leasing of the Town Belt on anyienns-— who acted as Chairman at the meetings of the half-dozen > citizens, ■ wjio, .put',their backs up so fiercely against the Cotyoxartion carrying out a plan for obtaining a revenue, wherewith to improve the reserve in question,' arid for preserving thosepatches of bush of great natural' beauty, which, to the everlasting disgrace of the city, are now rapidly disappearing.— £ am, &c, A Ratepayer. D.unedin, 26th Sept., 1867.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1792, 27 September 1867, Page 4
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209THE TOWN BELT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 1792, 27 September 1867, Page 4
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