PAYMENT OF WATER COMMISSION COSTS
ONEHUNGA OBJECTS Being mulcted of £9l toward the cost of the commission which recently investigated the metropolitan water supply, the Onehunga Borough Council, takes exception to the claim, and is resolved to fight it out. On behalf of the Onehunga Borough Council. Air. W. J. Jordan, ALP., has been engaged in protesting in Wellington against the charge. Mr. Jordan now writes that both the Alinister and the Director-General of the Health Department are helpless, and say that it is for the borough solicitor to advise whether the late Alayor, Mr. J. E. Cowell, being subpoenaed to give evidence, would render the council liable under the Act. The Prime Alinister, writing to Mr. Jordan, said that the Government had no power to interfere. At a meeting of the council last evening the Alayor said that the exAlayor was not subpoenaed, and did ■Qot give evidence before the commission. He thought that the council should npt submit to such an unjust imposition.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 12
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