HARBOUR AND BOROUGH.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19374, 3 April 1935, Page 2

HARBOUR AND BOROUGH.

PUBLIC MEETING URGED. (To the Editor). Sir, —The thanks of Thames ratepayers is due to the "Thames Star" for its timely leader of yesterday, "Harbour and Borough." You rightly stress the point that ratepayers must be particularly vigilant at this time. On behalf of the business community, I have pleasure in asking His Worship the Mayor to convene a public meeting, to which our representatives on the Harbour Board and Advisory Committee of the Borough Council be invited. Tho proposals of the Harbour Board could be explained to the meeting—indeedj an undertaking was given in Wellington in December, 1933, that this would be done—and the wishes of the ratepayers ascertained. I would point out that when tho present members of the Harbour Board and Borough Council wero elected this matter was not an issue. Parliament has decreed that Thames is to have no election this year, so the only way the ratepayers can act is to have the facts placed before them and indicate a line of action to their representatives. The representatives' hands are also strengthened in that they will not be advancing their own personal views but the wishes of the ratepayers.—l am, etc., C. S. DONOVAN.