A QUESTION OF WATER POWER RIGHTS
(Per Press Association.) Eltham, Oct. 12. A claim for £4200 compensation lias boon made )jy the Hawera County Electric Lighting Cmnpany on the E!tham Borough Council for los# by abstraction of the waters of the \Vain-, , gongoro lfiver by tho Council iot municipal water works, allegedly in such j quantities as to leave insufficient for the present business of the claimants, v and also the future requirements of * the Company as authorised by the Hawenv County Electric t Lighting Company's Act, 1903, The question a momcntuous* o»e —whether the water rights granted to a private company can override the people's rights under the Corporations Act. .«•
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7950, 13 October 1905, Page 2
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111A QUESTION OF WATER POWER RIGHTS Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7950, 13 October 1905, Page 2
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