Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: The supply can be metered when we
think the water is being wasted.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown: Is this system going to call for all
services to be metered?
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : Eventually.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : I do not know that it is necessary.
 President: Are we agreed on the rates? (a) Fifty cents per annum?
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: Normal requirements means
requirements for premises whose annual value exceeds one hundred dollars.
Ninety-six dollars in subsection (ii) should be changed to one hundred dollars.
These are normal requirements; you have to pay fifty cents for every tap in
addition to normal requirements.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown: You cannot put three taps in a small
house. A small man who can't have a big house cannot have three taps for his
convenience?
 President : We are npt considering Kingstown : In the majority of cases
there are going to be standpipes.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown: They would not have water in their
houses?
 President : There is no reason why they should not.
 Honourable 0. D. Brisbane : The man in the large house pays more general
rate.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : As long as he is satisfied with what
that half inch pipe can give him why deprive him of that privilege?
 President: He asks for the service and stipulates what service he wants.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : He asks for a half-inch; he is satisfied
to pay for that half inch and satisfied to take what that will give him. Another
man says, I want more, put in a one-inch service." That man with the half inch
service must not get three taps if he wants?
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : The times when we had no meters and
water supplied was judged by the inch or half-inch pipe have been buried; but
they still seem to rule us from the grave."
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : We do not know that they are buried.
 President: These are additional charges; if any of these people want more
than the number of taps stipulated, it would cost them fifty cents for each tap.
 Honourable O. D. Brisbane : What is the amount paid?
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : That depends on the rate fixed under
Section 30, subsection (1). You pay that flat rate; these are additional charges.
If you have a house valued over three hundred dollars you get three taps; if you
want an additional tap you pay fifty cents a year for each additional tap.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Plus the private rate, plus the general
rate.
 President : Plus your water service rate.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : You have two water service rates.
 President : Is this additional?
 Superintendent of Works : Yes. In subsection (c) the Trinidad rate is four
dollars and eighty cents, and we reduced it to two dollars for St. Vincent in
respect of each water closet or urinal.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Are you going to put in a bigger pipe
when you add all these? Are you going to have a four-inch pipe or are you going
to keep the small pipe?