WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 36, 5 August 1911, Page 5

WAITARA.

PROPOSED TOWN HALL ; | "iVi By Telegraph—Press Association. Waitara, Yesterday. The Waitara Borough Council hit jaet % received the result of the arbitration <'j proceedings in connection with the prite . overpaid to the Mepban, Ferguson Steel Pipe Company for carrying out the waterworks contract. Owing to a variatiom ' j of the original agreement the terms of - * settlement of the Council's liability be- i/l came questioned. The borough'paid ' £13,828 13a 2d under the certificate of ,■' its engineers, but the company claimed ' £1267 14s 9d more. The arbitrator* did not agree, and left the matter to the umpire,, who decided that the borough should pay £298 14s lOd in full satisfaction, the costs of arbitration, amounting to £l2B 2s, to be borne by the parties equally. At a public meeting last night $ <f| was unanimously decided to authoriee ■ ''i the Borough Council to call for com- ' f petitive designs for a town hall to cod -'J about £4OOO. f-J Business men are aggrieved at the \Jf action of the Underwriters' Associatiom J[ in refusing to reduce the insurance til rates in the business area. These art y jH the same now as before the lntrqdw- *!§jj tion of the high-pressure water supply, and seeing the town has equipped a'fin brigade and the water pressure is nevei. fS under 1251b. it is considered the treat- <3 ment is inconsistent. The will be petitioned to reconsider the matter, and falling a favorable rejjta State Fire Office is to bo approachedS direct. •> ' »jU| — . ■ «