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Accordingly, he proposed to increase the basic charge for salt
water from 40 cents to 70 cents per thousand gallons, and to apply the new
rate on the basis of an assumed consumption of one unit of salt water to
one of fresh.
It was intended that the new rate would apply to the assessed
consumption of bulk consumers from April 1, and for others, it would apply
to bills based on fresh water meter readings taken on or after July 1. The
increase in revenue on a full-year basis next year would be $9 million, but
the actual increase next year was put at $6 million.
Sir John said the effect of that, taken with the increase in
the price of fresh water, would be to increase the cost of all water supplies
to the domestic user who had salt-water flushing by 76 per cent. For the
resettlement family referred to earlier, the total increase would be not
$2.25 a month but $3.24.
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