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AfiltKIlM TO I.OSRS 1C MM ;o \' E R \ MIC NTVICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 11.—Al-beml finds the burden of governing itself too heavy now that there is no prospect of immediate real estate boom and has sent Mayor Huff to Victoria to ask Premier Oliver and members of the government IQ disincorporate the municipality, do away with its elected mayor and council from Victoria with the residents having no direct voice in their affairs.Mayor Huff is backed up in his request by a petition signed by more than two-thirds of the 600 property holders eligible td’ sign such a petition.“Fifty per cent of the land in our municipality has come to tax sales and through them into the hands ofthe city, said the mayor. • The population is less than one-half of what it was when the municipality was in oorporuted.We are advent and don't owe a cent, hut the load l-a getting heavier every year and Ihos-j of us who are paying taxes fear wo cannot stand it any longer.I for one. am not willing to face it another year. Money that has been coming’ in during Hie last few years from tax sales nus helped to lighten the burden, but no v everything lias been pretty well cleaned up and there will not be much coming in from this source.The change means that we will be taxed by the province and hatye our affairs managed from Victoria.“The tax rate in Alberni at present is 40 mills. The municipality was incorporated in 1913 at the height of the real estate boom when everybody seemed to have visions of an immense city springing up immediately on the Alberni Canal. Capt. Huff has been mayor for five years.
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Abbotsford Post
Abbotsford, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Oct 21, 1921
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