NO ADDITIONAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 1 February 1939, Page 2

NO ADDITIONAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE

WATER RETICULATION IN TAHUNANUI AND WAIMEAS The Tahunanui Town Board has received advice that its representations in connection with the Roding water supply scheme, with a view to obtaining further financial assistance from the Government towards the cost of reticulation work, have not been successful. A letter to that effect was received from the Hon. F. Jones (on behalf of the Minister of Labour) at last evening's meeting of the board. The full text of the letter was as follows: — “Roding Water Supply Scheme: Following on the representations made to the Hon. H. T. Armstrong on the 6th December by yourself and representatives of the Waimea County Council and the Richmond Town Board with a view to obtaining further financial assistance towards the cost of reticulation work to be carried out in connection with the above-mentioned scheme, a comprehensive report on this matter was prepared and referred to the Hon, the Minister of Finance. “The representations advanced by the deputation have accordingly been given careful consideration, but in view of the very generous assistance that has already been approved towards the cost of the headworks of the Roding River Scheme, as a result of which your district will obtain water at an exceptionally cheap rate as compared with that payable by other local bodies throughout the Dominion, it is considered that that granting of additional assistance in respect of this scheme cannot be justified. “I regret that I am therefore unable to approve of the payment of subsidy in respect of the reticulation of your district.”