MUNICIPAL DUTY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9945, 22 January 1900, Page 2

MUNICIPAL DUTY.

TO THE EDITOR. , * .- .-_ Sir,— Permit me space to say I diffeV m toto from Cr Peat's, opinion, as expressed last night, that it is wrong in' principle for Ihe Borongh Council to* lend a little waste land for charitable"' purposes. On' the contrary, I consider it' the boundeu duty of nineteenth-Won-tietU century public bodies to- set asidereserves of their least valuable land for" the use L of such of their fellowßas'have' languished and fallen in the battle' of of « tt n j' ™ rtl S' X consider }t a ° duty . ol up-to-date public bodies to erect small tenements thereon and to let them at apeppercorn rental to broken-down, de-,' cent unfortunates, who would rather Jive xv peace ,n one small room than blHMfrP *? **£ *? ? palatial V^oZ v Mr Peat would study modern Hfora ture and the doings of ' Great Bri&nV

destitute. All honour to the Mayor, Crs Bas6ett, Perrett, and the others who Bupportod the application. Their acton is in accord with the spirit of the ago, and it will not be forgotten by those who measure men's worth by a higher standard than is comprised in the letters * s. d.— l am. etc.. MARGARET BULLOCK. Wanganui, January.mh, 1900. [These letters have been unavoidably held over for several days.— Ed. W.H.]' ,