Clyde Water

Dunstan Times, Issue 2087, 30 July 1901, Page 4

Clyde Water

THE COUNCIL CONSENTS TO HELP

A HANDSOME CONCESSION

CONDITIONALLY ON a ••HEARS OF RATES BEING PAID IF YOU WANT PURE WATiTR PAY YOUR ARREARS I When the question of the Clyde Water Supply was brought up in the council last week, a letter was read from the Minister of Mines stating that the Government would ' give a subsidy of £ per £ upon the cost on a water supply for Clyde. Cs& The Chairman said that a could not be taken until they o'o tained the amount of money required for insertion on the voting papers. They had written to the Minister and the above was the reply. He would ask them to think over it, and he would bring it up for discussion in the morning, On resuming discussion morning, the clerk read a letter from the solicitor, in which he -tated the best way <o go about the matter ot obtaining the money. Cr Nay lor thought the Government had acted in a very liberal manner. Ihe money he was going to ask from the council would not be required for some time, tmd taking everything into consider, tion he wouid ask the council to vott £550 out and out to assist. Jh% Chairman thought Cr Naylor's contention for a vote was a fair one, and he thought that the sum should be voted. Cr Xane objected. He would like to see the old loan done away with so that the county: could re* cover rates. The Chairman said that the rates . wouid cover the two loans. Cr Kme could not see why the Town oi Clyde should ask them for for the benefit of a few paopii'. in Clyde. The council pay the maintenance expenses of the r ce, and he could not see why the ratepayers shou'd ray for the benefit ol a few people in Clyde. The Chairman said it would be a good thing lor the county to consolidate the two loans, and so be able to strike a rate for the payment of interest and maintenance. Cr Partridge said it was a d;s« j irable thing for ' lydc to have a I water supply. He agreed with Cr I Kane that the first loan had been a trou le to the council, but he would like to see Clyde get the money, for J very town should have pure water^~ Cr JLaidlaw thought it would nul j be out of the way for Clydn to bor« ! row the who'e of the ;£ 1,100, teeing j that the Government would give the I other The Chan nun said it would l»e as well if the council took the ,ia« bility of the old loan, and paid the , interest on that instead of the. payment of a lump sum of Cr Rutherford said chat he would sooner that the council vote some sum to further the scheme, and then the liability would end. In answer to Cr Laidlaw, the Chairman said that their liabi itj would end in the paying of the in* terest on the old loan. I Cr Laidaw would be willing to assist in that direction. It would mean simply that the council would be paying the old loan and wipe it o ut. Cr Nay lor agreed to the sugeeson. ti cr M'Whirter thought it was a capital suggestion of Cr Laidlaw's. • 1 Nayi'-r thought the indeut* ednesso' "he Trust uhwuld also be I embouied i< the wiping out.jpowers but the council, with the exception of Cr Butler, did not see it in that light. Crs M'Whirter and Kane thought it should be a condition of the ! counci-'s taking the matter in hand that the arrea»s of the f rust bf paid* The Engineer then joined in the discussion explaining to the council the technical points of the matter. Cr Kane "wanted a committee sot up to arrange preliminaries *nd find out what ratable power the council had, to report and ha*6 everything In order for the next meeting of the council. 'lhe resolution standing to Cr Naylor—That this council a«ree to pay the annual interest say £3£ per annum, on original loan for 16 yeais whereby the said loan would be liquidated, and that the chairman be empowered to take a poll of tiie Clyde Water District ratepayers re raising loan of say £1,200 as em« bodied in the county solicitor's letter, the foregoing to be given effect to conditionally on T a'l ar* rears of rates owing by the said J rale;layers being paid—was then ■/£ put an 1 carried--Cr Laidlaw se*** conding.