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be remunerated on the scale of an Assistant Director of

Public Works.

(ii) The showing in future of Water Rovenac and Expenditure

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in separate heads of the Colonial Estimates and the printing in those Estimates of a separate statement of the water accounts. Geveral revenues would remain

ultimately responsible for any deficit but ordinarily water revenue would xpenditur, representing a credit to general rov was to most charges properly attributable to the Water Department as explained below (paragraphs 4-6). Expenditure on water would continuo to b. voted by the Legislexive Council and subject to

ordinary financial control) as at prosent.

iii) It should be the air to charg: for water sufficient to

pay all expenses including capital charges and charges met in the first place from general revenue but applicable to the Water Department

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but whether revenus

in excess of such cost should be collected by taxation is a matter of policy. Ter is something to be said for charging fairly boavily for water as the Colony's supplies are limited and sater here is now very cheap, The consumers are how.v r very poor and the express d policy of Government in the past, as stated by the Economic Commission, has in that water should not be

made a source of rovno).

Un blanc it would appear

that general rovenus might cxpect some compensation for

made from riv:nuc but no mor.... past capital appendit r (iv) Any small surplus wich

waris: after meeting all the should be transferred to a

charges rirred to "bors Water Department Reserve Fund which would be available to moot (a) ny deficit on the working of the Department in subscount years; (b) ernital renewals, (c) new

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capital.