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 (The Honourable S. G. DeFreitas asked to be excused from further attendance
and left the meeting.)
Regulation 6-Metered Supplies.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: This is only a trial until we get the
thing going; it is only with experience that we can see. It was forty cents in
Trinidad; we have inserted thirty cents here (subsection A(i) ).
 Honourable W. A. Hadley : As we have cut by 50% all the way this should be
twenty.
 President : Agreed.
Subsection A (a).
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : What is the average consumption?
 Superintendent of Works : Forty gallons per head per day.
 President: Ten thousand gallons are free; then the cost is so much per
thousand above that. Is 8,000 gallons instead of 16,000 gallons agreed?
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : Thirty cents is now twenty cents.
 Subsections A(i) and A(i) (a) agreed to as amended.
 President : Are you metering the standpipes?
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : No, sir; except you have a yard where
tenants get water from a common tap.
 Subsections (a), (b) and (c) agreed to.

 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: Thirty cents should be reduced to
twenty.
Honourable W. A. Hadley : It is sixty cents in Trinidad.
 Honourable O. D. Brisbane : If we make it 50% factories should pay more;
thirty cents should be alright.
 President: Subsections A(i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) : 20 cents; A(v) : 30
cents; subsection B : 30 cents : Are those agreed?
 Members : Agreed.
Question that Regulation 6 as amended stand part of the schedule put and agreed
to.
Regulations 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 agreed to.
Regulation 12.
 President : Do you agree with the three dollars?
 Honourable O.D. Brisbane : What about two dollars and fifty cents?
 Honourable Member for North Windward: Two dollars.
 Question that Regulation 12 as amended to two dollars stand part of the
Schedule put and agreed to.
 President : No charge is to be made for the meter? How do you replace?
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : If you are going to measure you
cannot charge the person for measuring it.
 President : I agree with that.
Regulations 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 agreed to.
Regulation 19.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : The Water Rates Committee
recommended the 30th April; why?
 Superintendent of Works : That was done to fit in with taxation.
 Question that Regulation 19 stand part of the Schedule put and agreed to.
Regulations 20 and 21 agreed to.
Regulation 22 :
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : An amendment was made to that; the
Treasurer wanted Governor-in-Council."