Superintendent of Works : No; because you have not fixed your .sates yr t.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown: Water rates will be fixed on what
basis?
 Superintendent of Works : On the annual value of the property. On the
same basis that the Kingstown rates are fixed now.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Therefore you see my contention is
right. You go on piling up more for additional taps.
 Superintendent of Works : It is sixty Cents per annum.
 Honourable O. D. Brisbane : For extras?
 Honourable Member for Grenadines : Yes; that is cheap when you get the
service you are getting now.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: These are Regulations to be fixed by
the Central Authority; they can put up S. R. & O's altering the present rates if
they wish.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Should not all these be left out until
the Ordinance is passed?
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: Well, that is a matter for you. When
the Central Authority passes them you scrutinize them.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : We come here to sanction.
 President : I would like to point out to Mr. McIntosh that there is now a line
going down at Cane Garden on which we have not collected any rates at all. We
have $9,000 to pay off each year of which the Kingstown Board is finding five-
ninths. The sooner we get this fixed so that the people who should be paying for
it pay, the better. These rates will only become effective as soon as the Water
Authority can get them fixed.
 Hcnourable iMmber for Kingstown : As soon as you pass this Ordinance you
say each house shall pay so much.
 H-onourabie Acting Crown Attorney : The water rates are to be levied by
by-laws and for the present their place will be taken by the schedule to this
Ordinance.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : The only difference I see is that the
Kingstown Board has not got all this paraphernalia; they have one thing that
anybody can understand.
 President : Mr. McIntosh, we are legislating. Can we say that the
Kingstown Board is a perfect model?
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : In my opinion it is.
 President : Is that the general feeling of the meeting?
 Reply in the negative.
 President : As far as hardship is concerned, what we are considering now
refers to people who are asking for it. There is a general water rate. Those
people who do not want an individual water supply can go to a standpipe. These
things we are considering now are the things that people are asking for. These
pipes are in excess of the normal requirements, call it luxury or what you will;
these are extras.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : I do not see any extras.
 President : Concerning subsection (e), are we agreed that the baths should
be cut out or not?
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : No; we have plenty of water.
 Honourable 0. D. Brisbane : Not exceeding 100 gallons.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : You have an abundant supply; you do
not want the money?