HOW NOT TO DO IT.

Wairarapa Age, 20 November 1919, Page 4

HOW NOT TO DO IT.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The Masterton Borough Council proposes to raise special ' loans to the tune of £78,000 for protective works to a- river, a new street, tar others, and patch up what will be, anyway in a year or two, .an antiquated way of lighting a town. Electricity is bound to come. Once it is installed it is cheap, clean, and reliable, an<3 does not require a man with a ladder going round trying to get a glow up until it is time ror lights out. A new street is not wanted by a dozen of the inhabitants of 'Masterton. We have miles of good streets, with hundreds of empty sections. What is this £78,000 going to earn? A few more glow lamps, a new street (perhaps another policeman on point duty), and some tar. Just now, houses for the borough employees would earn something even at present prices, and help to stop tho vicious profiteering in "workers" houses. It would also save the Undignified expedient of a town that has voted a prohibition order against , itself going to a brewery company to house a few of its citizens. —I am, etc., H. LOCKWOOD. Masterton, November 18, 1919.