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Ililliiiili mmmmmmm EL'S ffS':::.::-:, ,::;;":rr::'T ;: munity m a goldfields township in a short space of time? There was ™ " n/ g 1 o its incorporation as a borough it formed part of the Ohinemun County Council and ~ SSJ?!rf J inemuri County Council was largely indebted. I, is provided by aw that fhen a H™ Th / T m \ y i8 + fOrmed I , nt ° a b ° roU « h there hM t0 a « adjustment o asslts and 11, 2': ''«!,'""''mn 1 ""' T"' lie re ™ r-' r° ™ fon ■ ""■' """ m, >-- '■'*■ •»■■"' <p«u»«»' ;:.,';::;;■::: 'z:«":;'-'l:rt r '»< "^:,",:;;Z\c:t:: Detween l< I uke Wharf and the Paeroa Railway-station. It is also paying one-third of th cosi of maintaining the road between Waihi proper and Waikino. These wLemaSs that it had to face at the very outset. But in addition to thai the outpul of gold from one ,!.,,,,„ bgmnto increase, and the population grew very quickly in the borough so Z ,' , .' S m. 1906, and the population, I think, at that time was 5,584. 1 think lam understating ne position w<,, I ~,,nno,, that there are s,x I sand people in that place a, the present" me Mr VrvZll- S : S ~? "m ! ;;l>,"f; l >," f th Y trough of WaihiJ Does i- include J/r. MeVeagh. No, ii does not. Dhe boundary is adjaceni to the railway-station at Waihi he Borou P h Council came into existence, and i. had to provide for this - speaking from a goldfkldß point of view-large co, unity, and for a rapidly growing community ad to provide all those municipal requirements thai a population of six thousand peope had a right to expect: ii had to provide waterworks, it had to provide I- f, a . d . t0 1 , ',"-'" U '}- foadmakingj and at the preseni time the condition of a, ai,s Waihi ,s B . uch thftt l( . ls imperatively aeowarj thai a sum of £14,000 be raiso, some how or other to provide an extension of the preseni waterworks 5v5,,,,, That oSS be borrowed on loan. X,, one will lend it. 1,1 , think thai any of my [earned friend nlini" L X r """ '" •^γ ,, ' 1 , ","' VIS " an - V *"">" <" »P S debenturio? a mining township -a township thai at the preseni time is practically dependent on the output from *"> mines - ' mßh '" **? « wrd aboul the present waterworks svrtem. There is a Uability at S