ST. CLAIR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10637, 31 October 1896, Page 3

ST. CLAIR.

TO THE KDITOE. ' • Sin, —In anjwcr to yoor corraspondeut I j would remark thf-.fc it is scarcely fair to expect a : ' bargssi to give eract figures of income and expenditure when councillors have nob the information tham3«lves. A return should be j asked fof. Roughly speaking, the income is ] abaut £700 a year, and the animal espHndittire for the past two years on formaticu and maintenance in St. Clair would not, I thick, exceed £60 a year. Oar water channels in the main and brauch streets are choked with an abundant growth of grass, and the clay is showing throggh j our footpaths for lack of a little tar and sea sand, and houses on back streets hava no ! approach. I mould like to point oufc-to hntj.gesses in other parts of the borough that it is I St. CUir that will yet pall the b.nrough ronnd !to solvency and counterbalancs (he prodigal i and wasteful expeuditure chafi took place duriDg the years of plenty. St. Clair is, I understand, j ■ the most valuable part of the borough, and it i h»« practically sprung into eristenea sinoa tho ! , £20.000 loan. I cannot understand the narrow- 1 j minded hostility th.it is shown towards the | suburb, and I feel certain that tho better j judgmont of counrillurs will yet prevail, aad | I that justice will bo metfld out to üb. At present we are the ngly d ncklinf; of the borough. —I am, &s , October 30. John F. M. Frasbe.