TRENTHAM AND SILVERSTREAM WATER SUPPLY

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 27, 27 October 1926, Page 4

TRENTHAM AND SILVERSTREAM WATER SUPPLY

I POLL TO-DAY. To-day the ratepayers of the West J Ward of the borough of Upper Hutt are being afforded an opportunity ot voting for the immediate installation of a high-pressure gravitation . y at ® r ' supply reticulation connected with the old town district supply. Meetings were field at Trentham and Silverstream last week, at which Mr. Sladden, consulting engineer, and the Mayor and councillors explained the scheme in detail. An expenditure of close on £13,000 is needed—this, it is stated, provides pipes of sufficient diameter tor the district for twenty years or more. Engineering fees, contingencies and nrst year’s interest and sinking fund absorb another £1560. and £l5OO is reserved to be raised if required later tor house connections and . extensions when the ■area has over 500 houses-a total ot £16,000. Fuller details are advertised in to-day’s issue pf The Dominion, to which readers are referred. It will be seen that the present scheme provides for over 8J miles of 6in. and 4inmains; three-quarter inch house ser ‘ vice»( and metersand 136 fire-plugs there are no IJin. mains, such as was proposed in the Hutt County scheme, which did not provide for reticulating ten streets (included in the borough scheme) and had onlv 68 fire-plugs, It is not proposed to collect any watci loan rate next year, as interest and sinking fund are paid rut of loan in the first year, and it is rot expected that more than 3d. in the £1 on the unimproved value will be required thereafter, as the revenue from “excess sales of water will, be paid into the loan account to lessen the rates. Though the general and footpath special rate amount to about 6d. in the £1 this year, it is pointed out that fourteen months’ expenditure has to be met (February 1, 1926, io March 31, 1927) out of the current year’s revenue and the lid. special general rate tapproved of by a petition of a majority of ratepayers under section 80 of trie Municipal Corporations Act. 1920), will not be' levied next year. Alt is nof proposed to collect “water charges’’ fees from propertTof upon which no domiciles are erected —these vacant sections will only pay the wafer loan tate. Polling will take place between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. at HuH Gountv Office. Wellington; Serial Hall, Silverstrcam; and Scott’s Tearooms. Trentham.