WATER SUPPLY FOR GISBORNE.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
GISBORNE, this day
The Borough Council has decided to purchase the Waihirere watershed for the purpose of obtaining a water supply for Gisborne, and will ask the ratepayers to sanction a loan of £20,000 at o per cent, for carrying out the necessary work. ■ Of that amount it is proposed to use £7,000 in repaying a loan obtained fiom the Harbour Board which falls due in 1901, and that portion of the proposed loan will not be raised until required for that purpose.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 21, 26 January 1898, Page 5
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