6.
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advantage lies in making no current provision for
ronowals but financing them in due course by loan.
Any "surplus" of rovere mich may arise should,
as already indicatod,
ronewals.
Curtain other charge.
rogarded as available for
ich ought in strictness
dupartment, cost of
penses, water analysis
ttention to staff etc.
to be borno by an independent mooi
postal facilities, share of audit
by the Medical Department, dic 1
ero difficult to calculate exactly and they might be
regarded as approximately offsou by the free supply of
water to Government offices, which it is proposed should
continue.
III. Charges for later.
7.
On the general principle that the users of water
should pay the full cost of what they use the following bases
of charge are proposed:-
8.
(i) A general charge to be able to cover the cost of vater
supplied for "communal purposes, 1.0. hydrants, street
cleaning, sowers, public buildings, free supplies to hospitals otc.
(ii) No free allowances.
(iii) Extra costs of supply to certain areas to be covered
by additional charges.
(iv) Special rates to be charged for supplies to building
contractors and shipping as at present.
(v) All other water to be supplied at standard rates.
As regards (i) the 2, at presont regarded as the
proportion of the rates applicable to water might reasonably
bo regarded as a proper charge for general supply.
that this 2 yields more than the retual cost of the
It is true
communal'
supplies
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