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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 141, 17 June 1913, Page 5

j NOTICE. j THE Committee against Water and Drainage will meet in Old Herald Office, High Street, at 7.30-TO-NIGHT. J- 0. LOGAN, ■ Secretary.. AGAINST WATER & DRAINAGE SCHEME. RING UP No. 89, A. and P. Rooms, for Motor-cars. J. C. LOGAN, ■ ; Secretary. Ratepayers! i . ■ •: DO NOT BE MISLED by Land Agents, Company Promoters, t Boom Promoters, Plumbers, and | Engineers. i REMEMBER I If you do net I STRIKE OUT THE TOP UHE I your rates will be 9c3 in the <£, or twice as much as \ any other Borough in the Dominion. TO-MORROW. ■ • The Way to Vote : j I Vote for Continuance of the Scheme I Vote x\ga4ast—GeiitimiaseeVOTE FOB CONVENIENCE, COMFORT, SANITATION, and HEALTHY SURROUNDINGS. A Warning to' ..Rate-; payers. DON'T BE HUSTLED into voting for the Water and Sewerage I Loan. BECAUSE: Those in favor of it are mostly lai^o shop and garage owners and hotelkeepers in the centre of the town, who I will benefit most and . yet will only have to pay half rates. The small house-owners will have topay FULL RATES, and it will cost them at least £50 each to connect with the mains^ The rates now1 paid by small ratepayers are double what they were ten years ago, and will bo quadrupled if this water scheme is carried. A house and section now worth £50©' will only be worth £250 if this heavy load of debt is piled upon you. The amount proposed to be borrowed; ;is £&0,000, i>ufc before tho scheme is completed the total expenditure will probably exceed £100,000, which is more than half the value of all th©^ land in Blenheim.' The annual interest you Will have to ' pay on this is £5000, and the working expenses will be £2500—^ total yearly bill of £7500—and. there are only 750 ratepayers to pay iihis. HEAVY ANNUAL BURDEN. The working man and thrifty housewife will have to pay the' proportionate largfest share of this; the fat men in- the centre of the town will only pay^ half rate; and the small property, owners on the outskirts of the town who will not benefit in. any way- by the proposed scheme will nevertheless have to pay the same rate as the fat man. ; . The town of Blenheim is one- of the healthiest in the Dominion, because we have pure artesian water and healthy surface drainage.' Defective sowerago mains and raupo swamp water teeming with microbes, will bring amongst us disease and epi- - demies never before known of in Blenheim. . • •■ RATEPAYERS! Vote against the .proposal! If you carry it now and find later you- have made a serious mistake you cannot rectify it; but if you veto it now and find later on you were wong, the error can be remedied by. new proposals. Therefore, RECORD YOUR VOTES AGAINST THE SONS ME. Roll up and vote early, and save your properties from a heavy load of debt ■ .': , , DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHI P. FTIHE partnarslhip hitherto existing jL betwebn the undersigned, as hotel-keepers, at the Club Hotel, Blenheim, is dissolved as faom the 4th. day of. June; 1913. ,'VV; . AIJ claims against the late- firm must be sent in, and all debts owing to: the partnership, must be paid to Mr A. J. Madame, Accountant; "Express" Avenue, Blenheim, within fourteen days from date, and his receipt will be . a sufficient discharge. . The business, will be carried on by Mrs Annie Draper*, Dated this i7tli day of June, 1913. Witness: W. D. DRAPER. Claude H. Mills, _• Solicitor, Blenheim. Witness: ANNI2 DRAPER. S. P. ; McNab, Solicitor, Blenheim.' ; HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FULLERS 1 PICTURES TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! Last Tiaie to {See THE POWER :OF SILENCE. Powerful two>-reel Lubin Drama. DOWN THROUGH'THE AGES. . THE SUBSTITUTE MODEL. - And the many otiher splendid pictures in Saturday's change of programme. TO-MORROWN NIGHT. [ (WEDNESDAY, at 8 p.m.) ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY! Forty Minutes of Sensation. | ON THE TRACK OF THEI CORK- !' SCREW GANG. . A brilliant and exciting detective drama with, many thrilling scenes. Breathless Incidents.Superb Acting I Powerful Supporting Programme. Don't be fined. Secure, a tiro* and wages book from "Tke Express** Uffice.—Advt.