During the debate, the boast was made that. Kuling was unique amongst the municipalities of tke world in running an annual budget of well on towards the middle of five figures of dollars every year on a basis which is devoid of the slightest legal authority to enforce the payment of taxes. The boast is justifiable in point of fact. So also is the boast, not made in the meeting, that the 12 councillors who get heckled for all' sorts of shortcomings, real or alleged, and whitewashed whether their clothes be clean or spotted, are each and all men who have but one aim in all their actions, the good of Kuling. They have the one
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