The Wanganui Chronicle. PATEA- RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1891.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11952, 30 March 1894, Page 2

The Wanganui Chronicle. PATEA- RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1891.

A very satisfactory meeting was held in the Mayor's room at the Borough Council Chambers last night of ratepayers favourable to the proposed loan of £55,000, and willing to render assistance in securing the requisite majority at the poll to be taken on Saturday week, the 7th April. His Worship the Mayor, who presided, impressed upon all present the urgent necessity of bringing every available voter to the poll, inasmuch as every ratepayer who, from any cause, failed to vote, would bo counted as against the loan. To make the poll effective, he said, it would be necessary that one-half of the total number of ratepayers on the roll should vote in favour of the loan, and also that one-half of the votes should be recorded in the same direction. The Mayor further reiterated his previous statements that the increased borrowing would not involve any increased rating. Assuming tbat the loan proposals will be carried, the rates will remain as at present, but should the result of tbe poll be unfavourable then it ie almost certain that increased rates will be necessary, Mr Jackson was expressly aßked if he really meant that a refusal to authorise the loan would involve sxtra rating, and he replied that that was so. Ratepayers, therefore, wili do well to remember that if they do not want their I rates increased they must take the troublo to record their votes for the loan ; and that if they fail to do so and the loan be lost an increase of rates will most certainly follow. Under the circumstances, we t vat that all ratepayers wili see it to be their duty to record their votes in favour of the I loan on Saturday week.