THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1907. THE TRUST LANDS TRUST LOAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8995, 4 December 1907, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1907. THE TRUST LANDS TRUST LOAN.

The trustees of the Master!:on Trust Lands Trust seem to have created some amount of bv the st: ".ps which they have taken to .acquaint the voters with the purposes to which they propose to devote the loan of £IO,OOO, which they are asking the voters to sanction by mear.s tif & poll to be taken to-morrow. So far from the trustees either overriding or attempting' to override the Act of 1005, it appears to us that they are I doing the very reverse. They I are, in oitf opinion, over zealous in complying with the terros of the Act, and have thereby provoked hostile criticism, which they would probacy have avoided had they pursued an entirely different course in placing the loan proposal before the voters. We cannot see that there was any necessity whatever to prepare plans of the'proposed buildings. In defining the manner in which the poll shall be takew the Act states that "the chairman of the trust shall publish, for six Consecutive days at least, a notice' .. ... setting forth . . . the particular buildings proposed to'be erected and the estimated cost thereof/'' It cannot correctly be contended' that the Act declares that either plans or specifications have to lie advertised. We are informed, on g-ood ; legal authority,

that the Act in effect simply provides for a reasonable indication being given to the voters as to the buildings the trustees propose to erect. A reasonable indication would be to set forth in the notice that it is proposed to expend the money on erecting business premises in brick, and to state the estimated cost in the localities selected for the buildings. Business premises would be "particular buildings," as showing, for instance, that the trustees do not propose to erect residences with the money if the loan is carried. The present position, it seems, is that the trustees are not overriding the Act in any way, but have gone to unnecessary trouble in order to comply with the law.