HUTT VALLEY POWER LOAN
THE PEOPOSAL CARRIED,
The ratepayers of the Hutt Valley electric power district yesterday by a largo majority endorsed at the poll the proposal for a loan of £200,000 for the reticulation of the district with electricpower and light/ The Act requires that to authorise the raising of the loan there must be a three-fifths majority ,\ whereas the voting resulted in the scheme being approved by a vote of more than ten to one. The poll was not as heavy as was expected, * for out of over 5000 ratepayers only 1574 took the trouble to record their votes. Mr. H. E. Lodge acted as returning officer. The following are the detailed results :— Polling Booth. For Against Upper Hutt _ 174 8 Hutt County Office 143 11 Western. Hutt 10 1 Akatarawa 5 0 Kaitoke 1 0 Plimmerton .-. 37 0 Pahautanui 10 2 Day's Bay 48 0... Wainui-o-Mata 10 0 Silverstream ..„ 44 5. Lower Hutt 344 62 Whiteman's Valley 3 15 Petone 318 28 • Eastbourne 184 1 Taita : 56 4 Epuni Hamlet \ 29 0 Mangaroa 15 0 Totals 1431 137 Informal, 6. Majority over three-fifths of the valid votes, 480. Actual majority, 1294.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 27, 1 February 1923, Page 7
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194HUTT VALLEY POWER LOAN Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 27, 1 February 1923, Page 7
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