Correspondence.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 1100, 26 October 1926, Page 1

Correspondence.

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(To the Editor)

Sir, — I wish to suggest to the public .a new scheme m presentation^, which I am sure will meet with wide-spread approval Presentations, like the poor, are always with us ; why then, do thosa who have lived m a town for 40 years or more, and suppoited its sport and public benefits, never receive any tangible recognition of their Work % And why does 'the floating population receive all the prizes for ordinary good behaviour m this field o| a"d venture. Just on the ground of bare justice, a reversal of this 'policy is imperative, I therefore spggeat that all newcomers to a town should pay a " new arrival n levy — of sjiy, five shillings— to go to £5 presentations to residents of 15 years standing and upwards, who have r pally done something that they have not already been paid for, towards the tdwn's improvement .France has a visitor's tax., which the common sense bf a clever nation heartily approves. fit is time Otautau led the" Empire m instituting one. I—l1 — 1 am, etc, QtJID PB,O QUO. Extraot from Tapanui Courier.