the Shanghat Muntelpal Counc nding ite patience exhausted, has been impelled to use pressure to bring the defaulting ratepayers in a certain limited area toa sense of their responsibility. The non-payment of ites fs an anti-soda? act which pre slices the body of ratepayers and images their interests. It Is to be honed that the attention which hax ow been drawn to the default, will have the desired result, The issue clear-cut; these properties on the outside roads have been assessed for payment of rates in return for the Ferviees and amenities supplied by the Municipal Council. Refusal to full this obligation comes within.
he same category as any other evasion "of payment. for services rendered. Quite irrelevant is. the side rords area i Sion between the authorities eon-cerned, Fveryone rexeets that the praiseworthy efforte made by the und the City Goverment of (to come to an agreement on issue have $0 for eluded success lant that does not affect the indebted= ness of these' del ting ratepayers who are certainly not charged with the duty of solving the m: jor problem bef the outside roads by direct acti Consideration of that problem has its proper plice in public attention, but Him no way: should be linked with What ie nothing. more nor tess than the Silure to meet obligations duly accepted by veeupaney of property ith which the Council as the govern authority has provided certain public services at the expense of the community. Mr, 0.. Yur has shown his appreciation of this distinction by advising the reculeitrants to pay the "dues and_yet upholding his Government's view of the general but—as tend stated—irrelevant question of the jurisdiction on the outside roads.
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