The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-02-05 00:00:00

COrrtSPOnbena.
INORSASR OP LOCAL RATIS IN POOLS
BOROUGH.

rp the Mike.

Sir,—There are ia deatioss of the speedy arivsat of
stormy tones for the retepapre of the borough of
Pools in conneetion with sanairipal expenditure sad
management. The rates are .Ireedy °purism's, six,
6e. 81. io tb• S. Several miles of road. are in snub
condition that a very large outlay upon them amain
be louger.staved oft The Poole HanU, rst long ego,
in an a* ninkile, "How tee poor in Poole or
pointed out matters for widow oonsideretioo with
rowan to tke delis in which a number of poor fannies
are living.
Probably most of the ratepayers are of opinioa 01
only they would t cite the t, ouble to expre .ti that
the rectification of theme two m ittere—ru 4. and on.
—had better be carried out belore the Town Council
takoi further mops to hasten tue whit of an In-pi-cts
of the Local Governinost 130. rd, with the "tient of
ineturiug a debt of 1:5,000, at 6 per cleat. for 30 years,
for outlay to buying lowa (Stilb ai teudiigt kg ,l .4
other wets), to be laid out in recreatiou goon is ducats
In places aunts as can hardly have oiesa contain* at
as suit .61e by the framers of the Public Hestia Ant
Suns utilises who Motet upon ale visit., ths inspector
Lek, under timer of thie applicstiou Is the local
rusted, to bring about a very loge dr.istare outlay ia
s oohs. Loneliest, and the village of Perkiitoue ;
ney imagine mat they shell be able in this way to
move the odium of adding Largely to tax.tioa watch
I. already severe. But ratepayen are on the alert, and
that they do well to b• alarmed may be etwa by etudents
of the sixth ediclua of "Manual of Pobtical
Economy." by this Hight Hon. H. Fawcett, ht.P.,
from which work permit me to lay before your readers
some of his grave weepings on local taxati
and lade the Warsaw@ of whloh is, in Hr.
Fawcett'. view,
The total amount oil cal expenditure in Great Britals
and Ireland i.now /161,000,000 Per annum. rti. local
authorities do not pay their way. The amount
raised by rates is only 1:40.000,000, leaving
an annual deficit of £:20,000.000. "Ibis deficit
Is met by loaas, and thus a further bodes
I. year by year accumulated. Toe usol, in
which tonal expenditure and local rates have morseled
Is exemplified in Lb. o•no of Liverpod—by no Mean.
an exceptional case. Tbili amount rat.ed by rate. in
otiritL7l7.,plGii...vosr,• it ilisw nowin E 118416 btan:cll.
-fhe reties were. in 1841, 2.. 86 I. in tho E. • Limy are
now ss. Toe deft of Liverpool bee more Lied from
£1,212,192 to E 5,795, 4io, or 478 per twat. I.maoov,ns,
Irina thee. figure., .hat expeaditur• end taxation bare
Morselled far more rapidly the.. wee th and populati
since both each usdividuo and each pound'. nosh of
property Is taxed mire heavily than It wee.
Mr. F•11/C•IS point. out aloe, with great fort% bet
heavily taxes prow upon the population which I. ust
bordering upon peciperiem, and bow Inevitably
uscriumed taxation thus tends to throw sciditioaal num.
berg on the rates, and thus ti nrosineutste limber
expenditure, and again further tstatiou. Your
obedient servant,

J. Itawuuta lentrson.
January 28ca. 1884.