BETTER WATER WANTED
£40,670 LOAN CARRIED IMPROVEMENTS FOR HAMILTON (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, Tuesday. Hamilton ratepayers to-day decided to raise a loan of £40,670 to provide an additional pumping station, increased reservoir capacity, improved filters, and an extension of the reticulation service. There were 707 votes cast for the proposal and 572 against, giving a majority of 135 for. Hess than one-third of those on the roll voted. The amount of the loan is made up as follows: —Hrection of pumping station and intake, £1,500; purcnase and erection of plant to treat the water for bacteria and sediment., £2,350;; purchase and erection of four Candy niters, including the cost of rearranging the filters already in use, £2,750; reticulation improvements, £0,170; construction of high level reservoir, £25,000. The loan is for a term of 30 years, and the rate of interest is to be 62 per cent, (including a sinking fund of 1£ per cent.), the annual charge to the ratepayers being £2,755.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 1
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163BETTER WATER WANTED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 1
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