The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1914. WATER SUPPLY BY-LAW.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 83, 7 December 1914, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1914. WATER SUPPLY BY-LAW.

(With which is inco'porated The Tad tyipo Post .■ a J Vtudma'rinn News.)

Ey notification in our advertising columns ratepayers are advised that the newly-formulated bye-lay for the government of" the town water supply

may be seen at the Town Clerk’s office at any time during office hours. T v-culd be very interesting to know

now many ot cur taxpayers have accepted this quasi-in vital ion. We doubt

.'cry milch, whether awyoive has ask;'i tc i'c.o ki at velum in oil*';, ay/e-inspir-ng legal document that is to be, and iven it' cno burgess lias cone so, it

s more than probable its hulk will lave divested him. cf the last idea he nay have had.of trying to learn someking about its provisions. Several •ocple have asked whether we know

•iriyv.liiiig about the judicial scope of the bye-law and we have invariably re • 'lied that we can no more afford to waste our time by sitting.a day in the municipal cilice than they can. From d-fken .to twenty closely typed foolscap sheets of thoroughly approved legal phraseology is mere than enough to deter any man from trying to dig therefrom the few atoms of information lie would like to have. We therefore think the council should have endeaveuveef to secure a more widespread publication, not only on account of Ad is information being more effectively disseminated, but also because the following cf such a coarse Induces the growth of interest in all matters in connection with local

itlc.n. Wo ‘have spent the mid* h.i, oil, or rather electric current, in fling through the bulky document,

and v/G have discovered one or two instances which might operate hardly cn property owners. One in particular, though scarcely worth mentioning, is

that by which a tenant may use considerably more than the quantity of water the properly i s entitled to bv the amount of the rate payable, then, by vacating the house clandestinely leave the owner to .pay the bill. This, however, seems a remote possibility and only likely to hapnen by a ten-

ant’s • spiteful action against the owner. The supply of a thousand gallons for every two shillings paid as rare .is ample, we think, for all users, and probably twice as much as many wdl need. There seems to be no cause for ratepayers to have any misgivings .whatever about the fairness of the now bye-law, and it will, in all probability lie adopted and confirmed bv the council with very little revision or alteration. While wo can congratulate our mpycr ;: and councillors upon the" thrreushness and coinprohcnslyonows of ianir water supply governir. n rreposals which are likely to meet ;.d i.gsc'g of the kind for many year: 1: c-c-mc feel that they .might, i . •ail j ustice,'have taken more p-Tjctir :•

who so desired, conversant with their provisions, not by involving the borough in any undue expenditure, because the necessary outlay, if any at

all, would have been a mere bagatelle. Most other boroughs adopt some such course as that we refer to, besides, it has generally been found that these municipalities in which every ratepayer is invited to the council’s confidence, in such ways as above suggested, are the mest progressive. To attain the utmost in any community needs the goodwill of every individual in it.