WATER SUPPLY.
COST OF TOE POLLS
Tho official return of tho water supply loan i>r.ll of £77,250, taken on Wednesday, issued after all th© voting papers were scrutinised and passed by th® Returning Officer, Mr A. Freeman, shows that 1111 ratepayers voted for the proposal and 116 a against, giving a majority of 57 in favour of rejection. The interim returns announced on Wednesday night after the poll and before tho voting papers were scrutinised, were 1118 for and 1172 against, a total of 2290, with a. majority against of 54. • The corrected returns show that 2279 ratepayers voted, whicli indicates that 11 papers originally passed as being in order* were subsequently rejected on account of informality. Th© matter of the next step will probably lie considered at the meeting of the City Council Cti Monday night It mny happen that no further poll will be taken until after April Ist, when the new financial year starts, for tho cost of a poll will run into something like £-500, and that expenditure will have to be met out of ordinary revenue, which was estimated for at the beginning of the present financial year, and has all been allocated. . Further expenditure for polls can only be provided by new estimates for* the coming year.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17981, 26 January 1924, Page 12
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213WATER SUPPLY. Press, Volume LX, Issue 17981, 26 January 1924, Page 12
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