PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ITEMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 325, 28 May 1875, Page 3

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ITEMS.

; (Condensed from D tiriedin papers.) MOXTNT IDA WATEBWOBKS. i 'Mr. de liautour asked the Provincial Secretary • whether any increased appropriations for! he completion of the Mount Ida Water Works had been asked for by the Provincial Government? and, if so, if he would Jay copies ofany correspondence between the two Governments upon the table? '■'■■'"■ . . .

Mr. Reid replied that all the correspondence was on the table. Applications had been made for'increased sums to be granted for the-completion of'the sludge channel.. Information received ; iu 1874.. tliat the, r .Gpv.errjment would not agree to it. ■'."..-;.„■. ■■:*■ ■'■■ ' THE aiOTXNT IDA WATEE W.OBKS CONTBACTS. The Provincial-Secrelai"y in his reply tp the amendment proposed by Mi". BastingS:,t]ius remarks on-the Momnt Ida Water :; Works :.contracts.,:—Touehi rig- next upon the Mount "Ida.epni.racts,. he asked the "member for Tuapek'aiiow it was they were hot completed before he left, office? A lie'rson outside the district had tendered lower than (he residents of the place, and therefore.- =they had an rill-feeling against the-contractors. . The contractors had urged the .Government to supply them with labor fqVlOs. a ilay of eight hours, with some workmen at'9s., and others at 6js., .but .they could "hot; be supplied. It was not Lhediity of ihe : Government to press'a contractor in such a wanner as to ,make him pass through the Insolvency 'Court: 'The works nad not been idle: iprfcy-uve miles of tire.;,water race have been formed.