SHANNON NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1154, 15 June 1911, Page 8

SHANNON NEWS.

Tha Rev. .1. I!, M'Kcnr.io presided at the weekly meeting of the local Literary and Debating Sociply nn Tuesday evening in tho Druids' [tall, when, the subject of debate was: "That a tax on land is the only right and equitable mode of taxation." Mr. J. Robertson, of Palmerston North, acted as jud»p. The following supported tha motion':—Messrs. Hinsinaii, Barclay, Trainer, Gardiner, and Sflby, while the negative side, was taken bv Messrs. Exoll, Gunning, W. Murdoch, Clayton, J. Mitchell, H. Logan, and F. AY" Venn. On a vote being taken, the audience derided agaimt the motion. The following points wero. awarded the various speakers by Mr. Robertson :—Messrs. He-.is-maii, 87; Exnll, 78; Barclay, SO; Gunning, T8; Polby, SO; Trainer, 78'; Murdoch, 73; Mitchell, fio; Clayton, 75; Gardiner, 73; Logan, 67; Venn, 77. The five speakers who supported the motion srored 407 point:-, as compared with 357 points scored by tho loading live speakers out of the seven who opposed the resolution. The jmi;;e lher«foi'P decidrd that thn supporters of the motion had put up the bflter argument. Last week flip Mayor and councillors of I'oxton lnotovp;] over to Shannon, where they were mot by councillors Venn and Stophenson. Mr.' Malcolm (County Engineer), Messrs. Gunninp;, Moynihan, and T. Wells. The combined party then proceeded towards (lie Tnrarms, about throe, and a half miles from the town, to inspect, the «our6o of supply of the proposal Foxtoii-Shaniion water supply .■iche.mi-. Two spots for the intake were iii«pee.tod—the first where the Maiigaona empties into the Otaura, about lIS feet above Shannon, and the second where the Tutuamaire enters tho Otaura, about four and a half miles from Shannon, lie iaft.or spot was generally considered the more favourable source—with a greater fall and an increased pressuro than the former. The estimated pressure was ahoiu "fill!:, to the square inch. At a inert ins of'the Foxton Borough Council on Tuesday nisjht, the Mayor stated that ho had gciie into the matter of probable cost en laying 9-inch mains from Shannon to IV:ton, and, sujipnsinK that this distance from the resi-rvoir were 14 miles, the cost per mile would be. about .CIMO, ninkin" a total of .CIG.SOO. Tfrlicnlatins the town for water and drainage wont' amount to £U,W\, and the total cost o, connecting would be ..£-31.194. Tins ™s exclusive of the expenditure necestnn for purchasing a c:,tclimei,l area, uuiKlin? reservoirs, etc. Nothing could be douL. in the'-matter until a meeting to di«-us* tho scheme had been he.d .in Simmon. Mr. .1. N. Stcphenson will probably call such a meeting '° r Eome early date.