LYTTELTON SEAT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 29 November 1928, Page 10

LYTTELTON SEAT.

VOTJNG AT THE CHATHAMS. Following is the voting at the Chatham Islands for the candidates for the Lyttelton seat at the General Elections :

pressed your willingness to pay is £348, out of a total expenditure of £52,753. "Your Council will probably also recollect that the Board made a further offer, and that was to spread payments to be made by you to the Board over a longer period than had already been agreed upon by you, showing that it was in every aspect of the transaction anxious to meet your wishes and avoid any embarrassment to your Council. "With regard to your latest suggestion that you Bhould not pay interest on the unpaid portion of your share, the law as at present constituted, does not permit the Board to give you such a concession, nor does it seem an equitable request, in that wherever your Council obtained its funds it would have to pay the market value for them. "With regard to a statement made that you did not contemplate any road construction to cost more than £SOOO per mile, it must be recollected in the whole of the report by the Highway Committee of the Canterbury Progress League on which your representatives played a leading part, a sum of £SOOO per mile was estimated as the average price for the whole length of roads in the report, and it must be apparent to anyone that the portions of roads carrying very dense traffic should be constructed of a higher standard and consequently cost more than the average of the whole. This aspect of the matter was referred to on page 5, second to last paragraph, of our reply to the report of the Canterbury Progress League, dated July 12th, 1928. "In view of all the facts the Board regrets that it is unable to reduce the amount payable by your Council for the work to be done between Templeton and Rollestor below one-quarter of £SOOO per mile, with interest on outstanding instalments, which instalments may be deferred as desired by your i Council."-

Booth Kaingaroa Waitangi Owenga Beanland Lester McCombs ... 0 5 11 ... 31 15 27 ...2 1 30 Totals ... 33 21 68