SUBURBAN WATER SERVICES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81901, 13 December 1906, Page 2

SUBURBAN WATER SERVICES

•Suburban residents and ratepayers are anxious to know how the Boroimh Council arrived at its decision not to carry out the proposed suburban water services. The following account of the discussion at the Council mcetiim on Monday should enlighten them ° The Mayor moved that thewiUor services be extended („ Vogeltown and I'itzroy at onec. costing ; Cl7O and L-107 respectively. The returns would be 11 per cent, and 15 per cent Cr. Parker seconded,

| Cr. Wilson said JCOOO of the £100(1 just borrow'eil was pledged. The -Mayor mm- proposed to spend C-> 77 of the X4OO remaining. The Council must see, therefore, that the money was spent to the very best advantage, the Council should not go haphazard but the works committee should report. Hell, road and Young street and (Jill street Xorth would soon entail expense, and water was more urgently needed i„ the. -borough than wilhout. He moved that the committee report.

The flavor said that the loan was vied for these works, or at line rate ''"•• v k, : ,v f ""' v "i' '"t «»■ 1>»1'- ''■' "'''''l.ii;;. The Ijouneil, i lH .|udi„.--tock in hand, had C7-I0 available for waterworks extension. ]f (| l( , r , )mi . 'il was now spondino ils last shilli,,,, 1 '■• Wilson's motion would 1„. more ill' <'■•• (Vdlis rejni.uleil Ihe Mnvnr n| - ll'f prnniis,'. to eive eaollel, waier for I"''' protection piiipo.es in Viarretl The Mayor said Young- and Barrel I -iivets were ne:vl on (he lis). »'!•■ Iliiielien seconded the aniendinent. Which was endorsed In- (> Hell-\->»p'r. The h,!(er ur«eil ihe adonti"n nf the larjror .sehmne for V.Jeltown. ''l''"' »:« said thai sebsne was l"» expeusi,,, C>. Browne thonj,!,! Ihe Council ; "sf oc'eltown the laree scheme. ■'!i"uld the I'nketolarii main 1,,-iv, n„. '""!' w ""''l '«' dcpoiiileiii for lire ~,t . '•''■■""t '»' lb" six-inch main on <he road and tie six-inch main rei.need to four inch a I Wallnth Place " ( '>;/'"»is, the Mavor said that "< sinal scheme was hut part of the I'l'irer which could 1,, completed later. n If iimendmeiu was carried hv 5 to i'; ,'" i[ "- v, . ,r 'V 111 <-''■*■ and 1 "Mis opposing it.