MEETING, March 21.
Wir the motions that will be brought before this year's Ratepayers' meeting we have already dealt at some length, but it may be i to-day's agenda, achieved within the an afternoon session by a discussion of the Report and Accounts for the past year. Ciroumstances compel the electorate to accept the Council's expenditure trustfally, relying upon the Ratefy remarks that may be lo on vers' representatives to be guided the Budget or in the public Press for the main lines of their policy. In the present instance there is no reason to suppose that the Council's action in purchasing land for the Rifle Range without a formal vote of money will meet with anything but general endorsement, in view of the peculiar circumstances attaching; and Ratepayers will rest content that their sanction in this instance will not be taken as jastisecure the unanimous approval of! the Meeting, in view of the pressing. necessity for this step and the amount of money that the Council finds at its disposal for expenditure on roads, Whether Resolution XI can be put to-day, however, will depend on the time occupied by the discussion on the proposed Rules of Procedure. In regard to the amendment that we stated was in contemplation to the Council's motion on this subject, we learn that, in the absence of any formal meeting of the members who the unanimous Report of July 16, 1909, the Committee as a corporate whole does not take any action in the matter. It is left, therefore, to individual members to place before the Meeting the considerations that actuated the Committee in arriving unanimously at its recommendations of eight months ago.
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