WAIROA POWER BOARD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17080, 8 July 1926, Page 4

WAIROA POWER BOARD.

MEETING THE DEFICIENCY. RATES TO BE COLLECTED. ' (Special to tbo Herald.) ■WAIROA, this day. At a special meet ing of the Wairoa Power Board there were present: Dr. Somerville (chairman), and Messrs. Corkill, Macdonald, Single, Ormond, Glendining, Pryde, and Siunmerfield. The special- business was to make a rate to cover the deficiency in the working account, and to provide for the collection of it. A .sub-committee of the Board had previously gone closely into the matter and defined two areas —an inner area, including the properties benelltting by the electric installation, and an outer area comprising those areas which are not likely to be reticulated for many years. Tho first resolution was proposed by the chairman, seconded by Mr. P- H. Siunmerfield, to the effect that the rates proposed to be made be collected by the constituent of the Power Board disjfc'k't, in this case the Wairoa County Council and the Wairoa Borough Council. (Jn a division the motion was carried by five votes to three, the chairman and .Messrs. Pryde, Glendining, Ormond, and Sunnneiiield voting for it, and Messrs. C'orkill, Single, and Macdonald against. "The chairman also moved the next resolution. imposing a uniform rate of oneeighth of a penny in the £ on all the rateable 'capital value of all rateable property in the Power Board district, and also an additional separate rate of -Jd in the £ within the special rating district already defined. Mr. Pryde seconded the motion. Tho rate is intended to- raise sufficient fiuuls to cover the estimated excess of expenditure over \the income of the Board for the year ended .March 31, 1927.

Mr. Glendining moved as an amendment, and'Mr. C'orkill seconded, that a uniform rate of one-sixteenth of a penny he levied, and a further separate rate of one-eighth of a penny in the specially defined district. The voting was equal, and the chairman gave his casting vote against the amendment, which was lost, and the motion was carried by the casting vote of the chairman. The chairman’s report and the balance sheet- for the year ended Match 31, 1926, v ere read and adopted. Gii the motion of Mr. Single, seconded hv Mr. Macdonald, if was decided that the Board’s scale of electricity charges be revised by submission to a committee comprising the chairman and Messrs. C'orkill, Glendining, and Single. The estimates for the year ending March 31, 1927, were also referred to the same committee.

Leave of absence was giantod lo Messrs. 'Shaw and Siirclair. It was agreed that the Resident Engineer's report lie discussed at next Board meeting.