MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISE.
(From Our Own C7orres d ondent. ) WANGANUI, August 21. The Feikling Borough Council has, on two occasions, placed electric light proposals before the ratepayers, and each time the scheme was negatived. There is on the council an ex-Salvation Army officer named Mr G. Harford, and he has worked so assiduously in the interests of electric light that, despite the set-backs he received, he is now likely to come up on top. Practically the whole council has now been won, and so enthusiastic are the members of the body that it has been decided to again face the ratepayers with proposals to borrow £IO,OOO. The poll is to be taken on October 1, and, for the first time since the scheme was mooted, success appears to be assured. Feilding has now attained groat prominence as the stock centre for a great territory of country—in fact, it is regarded as the most important stock centre on the west boast, Palmerston North and Wanganui being quite overshadowed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 57
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166MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISE. Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 57
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