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To meet the estimated Local Expenditure the following Precepts
have also been issued:—
datkofprecept
description of rate.
st.saviour.
christch'ch.
total.
£
£
£
26 April, 1882
Sewer Rate
351
231
25 Oct., 1882
Ditto
401
281
752
512
1,264
26 April, 1882
General Purposes Rate
3,720
2,071
25 Oct., 1882
Ditto
3,694
1,790
7,414
3,861
11,275
£12,539
Death and
Retirement
of Members.
The Board greatly regret to have lost the services by death of
Mr. Urban Gardner and Mr. Edmund Baxter, and by retirement
of Mr. J. W. Cathie, Mr. George Swain, and Mr. Josiah Hale,
during the past year.
Survey or ship.
The Board have elected Mr. George Roper Norrish, of No. 18,
Palace Road, Upper Norwood, to be the Surveyor of the Board in
the place of Mr. Greenstreet.
General.
In conclusion, it may be remarked that the number of schemes
in Parliament, and other matters of importance, which the Board
have had to consider during the past year has been unusually large.
Those for railway extension and tramways demanded the utmost
care and attention on the part of the Board, and a great deal of
time was devoted to them in Committee. The question of electric
lighting was, perhaps, the most complicated and difficult which the
Board had ever been called upon to decide. In addition to the
various alternatives presented by the Act, each of which had to be
considered on its merits, several applications were received from
Companies for concessions to lay down wires and supply the district
with electricity independently; but these the Board did not feel
justified in granting without the security and protection which
would have been afforded by the Act.
W. H. ATKINS.
Board Room,
Emerson Street, Bankside, S.E.
23rd June, 1883.