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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1060, 24 February 1911, Page 4

A by-law was-adopted last evening ;by tho City Cotincil which affects the licensing fee payable by proprietors of billiard saloons. For. tho purposes of the city area means the area of the city- as it stood prior. to. i.tfj. amalgamation with the late borough of Melrose. Suburban area includes the whole of tlio city of Wellington not included in the city area above defined. -Iu future the lieeitso fee payable on billiard saloons within the city area is to be Jib. The fee on promises so employed that are situate in tho suburban area is to be .£3 3s. hitherto a uniform feo of .£5 lias been levied oil billiard sola,prc-t b mbmbmm levied on billiard saloons. Tho City Engineer is effecting a saving on the inspection of its water, pipes in England. - The Mayor last evening said that formerly H per cent. had. been charged for ' inspection, and passing. On ■tho tontri\ct, which ran .'into •£50,000, mi ngreomoltt .to'..charge' only 1 per cent, had 1 been.pome,.to. -. -