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~,,-sent time of 621,000 due by the borough to the General Government. That represents a loan Uici, they were fortunate enough to raise. Gentlemen, you laugh but I may mention there were ~ special features about the mailer, and there is certain special legislation which has enabled he Waihi Borough Council to raise thai money. But thai makes „ all Ihe more certain that they 'fn nO l be able to raise any more. The £14,000 has to come from other sources, and the only available sour,-,- at th< present time is revenue. 4 hey cannot raise ,t fr inj other quarter I have men , I the additi waterworks: I shall meutlOl W one other very important ,-.,,,,,- ~, c I confess, which surprised me when I began to investigate the case on beha.ll of the Sough of Waihi. There ,s a population of six thousand, and al the present time absolutely no provisten ,s mad,- for the drainage „f .he borough And the question of drainage Wlil be an extremely difficult one there on account of the difficulties that arise regarding -he outfall I, ~. lai „K ~„„,„, dispose of their sewage by putting i, into the river. An estimate has been pre ~,., i n - the Engineei of 'he Warn, Borough Council which shows that 111 order to complete a ; ,-, ,of drainage for the borough a sum approximating £39,000 or thereabouts will be required. Tb- is , 1 abiliiV they have „, face an imperative liability that canno! be delayed much longer, and one tha can provided for by setting apart , portion of the revenue for the purpose o defraying the cos. of establishing a drainage system. I stated a I,.tie while ago tha, a sun, of S"M)0 had been raised from the General Government for the construction ol the existing waterworks c l-ne- I omitted to mention what was the security provided for the repayment ol -ha, Th, .security consisted of a special rate and ,he hypothecation to the General Governmen ;,. gold ,iu,v : 'so that duty is pledged at present for the purpose of securing the repayment o at loan of 621,000. T cis another consideration which presses son,: what heavily on the Wan , „ n! tha is this: they have established a hospital there. 11l View ol the nature of the ui,i i as reaUy uecessarv .hat there should Ix- a hospital within the district and i so -. ha, ,1,:- hospital district is coterminous with the borough, so that practically one-hall 1 .Linton..,,-, and upkeep of that Hospital has I a a charge on revenue 1 say -one-hall'" because .he (lovernmen. contributes pound for pound lhat is what „ f vernment doe all over the Dominion. The,-,- is no special conce s, n that case. Now, the that is due to the circumstance that the drainage of the borough IS totallj inad< ,pi, U , and tnat unto the time no proper sanitary methods have be:,, adopted About six weeks ago i wa ,I ,■ s- a, send a deputation to one of the Ministers of the Crown who happened to be n. HShe^^^ i!:r:v:'..i;r a;":,',;;:,':.BS£S*«E SE£ f,, ~; i itj; *. - r - -; has been aboul tli,7W. ,in is anotne matters ef thai description. I merely and ! ,lllt - iS *? 'ThTittasnotTel igno d C Tdon,;m!";,' publicans- licenses, but dog and mention it to show that it has not been ignore maintenance and " ,, r i, " l ' a ;' .SrSiS reaV. andstreeS ': "erli ' this absorbs the .hoi ! the revenue which upk eep oi the ex sting r- ads , dstr. . t o{ fac the whole o{ the venue has uaB been received ln \ I £ v \ o the bank is a ,„,„t £14,000, and the bank has been '"" HV "; ',;.'.,,. en ', d 1 ere san understanding a, the present time that il is reduced pressing for its repayment, ana tiki, , existing in Waihi, and it is under these J,, the rate 0 f 6500 per month. rhe % a f J*Xr.'.:,,. r Sft theae difficulties in the way of circumstances, with these condition. of « f^£?£*££ on . , may ment ion that for the raiBing ,no,cy, that .he Wa, hi ■ - ' « • , to purpo se ot providing lighting to I th ' f tin , ( . to ti „ l( , they ~,,- enabled to struct them out ol revenue By Setting apart i .^ ide 8 system of lighting 10, the M.ough at a cost of il w iuVnture to say, These are the .pecial conditions afiecting B^f \°™ h \ ] ~„, h J s0 rapid l y grown, that that ~as conditions so ex£emely oeculiai to itself, rf probably there is no parallel for ll n New ii. Dre ssiug and very important one. For <»* efi^ai -•"' ,, ;.';ur;;: , v:'i-d eve;:- imS.. f , gold d^ these reason, we saj that the.vestea ll r ' A , f p ar ii am eni which expresses the a right assured to every burgess a *P™^L.™ not to be interfered with. I. public policy of the country for the last thirty_nve year g mmm coin ought not to be any more interfered with ~: n . right Wh J . ( |ja „ u . to discharge their tailings into the slmlg - h.mne 7 js _ ,„. fashion to try and extract wealth from what is toVndeavour to do it. But what fortunately, an insatiable desire in the minds o , peoph teem a , do renture to say is that considerations of that k - rf n , v(ini| „ considerations which ought to be attended to , t , umsta int( .,,,,,. (1 witll a t the pre provided by the legislation of .he Dominio,,. a d 1 , uh Parliament to enable i. h. , r;::i.itv ,'^r:.:::"-;-.-''--- : -«' M- ■ ' hok •""-■ of the