WATER FOR SCHOOLS
TO PREVENT EXTRAVAGANCE.
The Finance Committee recommended at last evening's meeting of tho Citv Council: —
■"That in future the charge for water supply to primary schools throughout the city be fixed at the following rates: Schools on high levels, 9c|. per thousand gallons; schools supplied by gravitation, 3d. per thousand gallons. The present charge is a fixed one of £50 per annum, and the average total consumption is 3,(100,000 gillons per year, find nearly one-eighth of this quantity is lmniped on the higher levels.'
In connection with the above, Mr. W. H. P. Barter said that they were not making anything-out of the , charge— the water was being supplied frco of cost. Tho charge was only the amount it cost the council to produce the water. Some of the schools were on the high levels, and the water hud to bo pumped up at some cost to the council. Tho flat annual charge did not protect the council from extravagance. After all, the charge was one that should be paid by the Government, not by the ratepayers of Wellington. The recommendation was carried.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 8
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186WATER FOR SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 8
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