NEW PLYMOUTH GASWORKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1918, Page 5

NEW PLYMOUTH GASWORKS.

THE QUESTION OF PURCHASE, ■ ■ BOROUGH TO APPLY FOR AN AST. , At last night's mceeting of the New [Plymouth Borough Counil the foil- s lowing resolution was carried, dealing ? 1 with provisions for the possible purchase of tho New Plymouth Gas Wort* by the Borough Council:— That the Borough solicitors be in- > strutted to take, the necessary btep&'.to introduce into the ue:.t sessions of par* lmmciit a local Bill empowering the :.'j Council, after giving six months' notice of its intention so to do, to purchase, at n. price to be determined by arbitration, •' under tht provisions cf th* Arbitration .Act, l'JOfi, tho undertaking of the New .Plymouth Gas Company, Ltd., including all the works, machinery, and plant thereof, and tlie lands whereon the gas A works ami buildings used in connection with the same are erected, and the busi- j„ liess carried on by the said company a* 7j a "oino- ciincerii, and all rights, powers, and privileges conferred upon the said 1 companv by the Xew Plymouth Gas Company Act, 1879, and requiring the company to sell to 'the (JVMineil after.tho est- i piration of the saiil notice and at the »■< price to be so fixed. (In 1 said undertaking. The matter was referred to a committee to facilitate the carrying out ol the resolution.