OTAKI WATER-WORKS.
| The Mayor (Mr J. P. Brandon;, Cr 1 Cockrell, and the Town Clerk journey ! ed to Wellington on Friday for the per 1 pose of interviewing the State Adve; ef | Office, and. if necessary the Minister Finance. The water-works loan ,ix only p:d: over to the Council by instalment* <•: £SOOO each year. One is due after April J*t, but it generally- 1, ■ pens that a long time takes. .place tween the Council making the-applies' tion and the receipt ol‘ money. If ! y any means the money was not forwarded until the .financial year (commen' ; ! April 1) was well advanced, the Coir A j would have to put off the men. The j Act will not allow any arrangement to I the Bank in anticipation of loan tnom-y-The po?ty was met by Mr Field,' M T 'and taken straight -to the State Ad\ ■ - ces Office, where the matter was fts; discussed with Mr Waddell, the .- up- . .- tendent. Mr Waddell recognised difficulty and assured the depot.-.: s that under the circumstance.* mint- portion of the £SOOO would be paid over the middle of April. This satisfactory result, ho-.vee- " could not have been attained >o readily but for the assistance of Mr Field, and the Mayor expressed his thanks to E'en. behalf of the burgesses of Otaki.
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Otaki Mail, 19 February 1923, Page 2
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