(To the Editor of the Eybhin<J Stab). . * Sib, —Permit me to ask our Borough Councillors through your columns to give us ratepayers some information respecting the proposal to purchase the bleak and useless land on the Tararu flat for the socalled purpose of a recreation ground. Whose brilliant miod was ifc that conceived tbe idea that the Council should even consider the propriety of giving the fancy price of £75 an ecre for the land P Whose land is it—let us know the names of the truly philanthropic owners who are wii • iog—kind souls that they are—to saddle the land on to the shoulders of us already overtaxed ratepayers at such a figure? SureJy, »if» w/» naTe a P e«"fect right to know oil tbe little details a,bpufc tbe matter, as if all I hear is correst they are somewhat interesting.—-I am, &c, ___ - . MoBE^LIGHT.
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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 6863, 23 April 1891, Page 3
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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 6863, 23 April 1891, Page 3
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