A SIDE ASPECT

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15742, 28 August 1915, Page 7

A SIDE ASPECT

Ti> tlio Editor of the '"Tiiuaru Herald."' S r. —I notice that Cou.ie.'iiors: Hunt ami Murphy make a statement i:i this morning's ■•Herald''" thai the Coun- « I are supplying 13 O'fMr;'• -..-d'oix. -f water annually to J. L. and G. without payment- Now i .-.kmi.i.l ij • lila-i it the Mayor will cither ai'linn or deny tlii c . School committees have at times approa- hod the CV,m;r : ] and asked to be supplied with water i'o;-

| schools ■without cost, and have always » • rtoeived a. deaf ear. Now if there is an institution that should have its water supplied free of coct 1 maintain it is the school. Practically all parents contribute to our water scheme, and the committees have difficulty in piovidhig money to meet the demands upon them and liavo to augment their iiuids by calling upon parents tor si;lnscriptions, etc. As I know the Mayor's time must ha fully occupied just now, I will not ask lii-u for any reasons for the Council's action !if tho statement ho true. A stra'-ght out yt>> or 110 will satisfy. I am. etc . j I SCHOOL COMMITTEEMAX- I