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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 161, 11 June 1901, Page 4

i| ■ ‘ .1 | ,r Oamaru the price was almost doablfe’l | per mile. 1 Major Steward said if the rate was I brought down everywhere the .railway j surplus would not exist. I The chairman said they did not object to paying nfair share, but they did object I to be taxed for* others’ indu gences. >f Major Steward said ho had always been i against differential rating, Mr J. B. Milsom asked if Major Stewaid could see any way of giving fixity of tenure to licensed houses, and the reply was that it was a difficult matter to deal with, but 'it would be a fair way if the public house were bought by the Govern--7 mant if it lost its license. This would ; 1 tend to improve the class of houses buiE. Mr W. L. Scott asked, if the Goven *• meet wished to give cheap coal, why they ; did not reduce tne freights, which would . cheapen it 5j per ton. r, Major Steward said it would probably 1 be on coal and grain that the refaction ■. would take place. Tbs chad man said thus was one of the questions that were kept “ steadily in r sgj: * '! V These were a'l the questions, and Mi j E. Cameron, as Major Sieva u’s ■; r nominator, twci.ty-two years ago, pro. 1 • iposed a heaci.y wte of thanks and contideneo In Major Steward as representativ * 3 of tire dioti ict. i This was carried bv acclamation.