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w- wwrlkfrpj vm second section ocokoeiown ontaiuo wbnesoay evening june ttth 157 j di plant ov neworre i o what council did delrex asks town honour agreement made in 1954 far tlie whole f ontario travel 73a parliament budq toronto ortvto dortmnl of twnl pmbbcky lcacartmmrtw renewal of request developments tor rejease neak- the sykes tool co pltttt on which construction of 8qo send detached bungalows is phnnvd is closely allied with a sewage dis posal problem facing georgetown according to information convey ed at recent meetings of the town council delrex claims that the existing disposal plant is overloaded and incapable of handling present re quirements an opinion shared by the ontario water resources com mission which has been in touch with the town by letter asking what is planned to relieve the situ ation under the 1954 annexation agreement georgetown agreed to provide trunk sewage mains and watermains on existing roads in delrex as well as necessary lift stations and adequate sewage dis posal facilities none of this has ted to show thaeonstruc- pt the mm house will more than pay us way in taxes the company stays that here would be surplus of some 50000 in yearly fax revenue which could be applied against a sewage dis posal plant in fact says delrex if all residential lots in the whole subdivision were built upon there would be a yearly tax surplus of 164000 not counting industrial or commercial assessment at all the company points out that if delrex did not exist in its pres ent form georgetown would have a tax rate 6 mills higher in sche dule d of the brief all costs to the town of the area are balanced against tax revenue and the lat ter shows a 49000 advantage there is apparently some mis conception that annexation has imposed a tax burden upon resi dents of the former town of geor getown such is not the case been done says the company in says the company delrex has in- a brief submitted to council which stalled certain watermains and is reproduced in its entirely in sewage facilities which were the another section of this weeks towns responsibility costing over herald 40000 made an outright 40000 the annexation agreement also cash donation to keep tax rate tied the delrex company to main taining a- 40 industrial com mercial assessment ratio while allowing preliminary house build ing on the h craig reid farm this ratio is far out of balance at present and house building on any other part of the delrex pro perty is impossible unless the council relents on the contract in the delrex brief figures are stl one year and has installed sidewalks and boulevards in all developed residential sections at its own expense presenting the brief to council harold bairstow general manager of the company said that princi pal payments on the sewage dis posal plant could be stalled for five years if necessary by arrange ments which can be made with the golden wedding this fatal accident was caused by excessive speed location a cttfw m hlynmy hb 95 tmfuto 7j0pjb madsuwactb asphalt qiy msulti pnaingar mad drhat nrionty njarad this car waa travediae north at high speed the drivernot familiar with the road failed to make the euarval the car nnaanl the highway and wrapped haalf aiouad a tree tta drivers wife waa crashed to death and he waa badly injured whan he recovered ha waa charged with careless driving and his licence suspended this- in just one of the countless accidents caused by amative speed think about this picture the next tiniyw start to prnaa your accelerator i 1s7 dtfaitmiht ol high ways ontario on april 21st mr and mrs ambrose hancock jr celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage with family and friends extend ing good wishes on the happy occasion residents of r r 4 geor getown since 1915 they first farmed at mount pleasant mr han cock came to canada in 1 906 end a year later returned home to bring annie charlotte salvidge here as his bride they have four sons and three daughters 20 grandchildren and one great-grand- georgetown gives 1834 to cancer society work a total of 13397 has been donated by residents of george town and district for the work of the canadian cancer society in a campaign conducted recently by north halton unit of the society it was the first public fund appeal conducted figures issued this week by ernie alcott secretary of the unit show that in georgetown residents gave 14s26 in the campaign in addition there were donations from limehouse 14020 glen williams 10101 nerval 8200 and stewarttown 5450 the society is most grateful for the public support accorded their work and to the men and women who canvassed for money and djb tributed literature in the tight against cancer building sand concrete gravel road gravel pill amd top soil stone work a tom haines glen williams tr 73302 water resources commission i believe when they buy property correspondence from the re j until there is a zoning bylaw the sources commission under signs- fact is that anyone can build any- ture of dr berry was also read thing anywhere at the council meeting in which the problem isnt new he dr berry expressed concern with j said in 1922 georgetown council overloading of the disposal plant loaned money to a firm to start and asked council give an answer j a tannery beside the house in as to whether a definite program which he was living has been decided upon i cr hyde objected to any talks overloading which is pollut- with the water resources com ing the credit river must be dis- mission before council made some continued in the immediate fu- decision on what it intends to do ture is dr berrys warning and about sewage disposal either a new plant or improve- the mayor and some other ments on the present plant will be council members were of an op- required positc opinion feeling that coun- by majority decision council i cil should learn what financing decided to invite the commission arrangements arc available as to send a representative to a fu- these would have an influence on ture meeting to discuss he qucs- a council decision tion and to explain what ftnan- cr hyde claims thai council cint arrangement might bo avail should take the offer of c r i a hagey who designed the george- 1 john henley 40 bairstow cres- town scwcr system to provide a cent voiced strong objections to report at a nominal cost showing milton centennial is on now to july 1 time and money wih a personal chequing account the delrex proposal at both coun cil meetings at which it was dis cussed june 12 and june 17 mr henley claimed that instal lation of sidewalks and boule vards had been charged into the cost of the houses which have been built and that people who bought homes had paid for them his main complaint however was about building 39 semide tached homes on mcjntyre cres cent that area baa been reioned the cost of extending the present sewage disposal plant the plant was designed to serve a much lar ger population and cr hyde feels mr hagey has an obligation to make the system work harrison wood 28 bairstow cresc appeared at the june 17th meeting to express concern about semidetached houses being built in his district he suggested that council con trol the situation by refusing to from r3 to r4 since a proposed j issue permits until a mining by- zoning map was published in the law has been adopted mr wood herald last fall he said and he claimed that he had bought a fears that people who bought house believing the area was xon- homes in the area where he lives j ed a certain way and that con- will suffer property depreciation structiolf of semidetached houses there was no zoning or even a will depreciate his property proposed zoning dylaw when your home was built answered mr bairstow we assured people the area would be residential and it stilj is ive heard many people say tbey have bought property which has been misrepresented said cr ern hyde its not our prob lem but they arc trying to make it our problem it isnt only people in delrex who say things like that an swered the mayor we have no control over what people might as the situation stands at pres ent council has taken no action on the delrex request and until some decision on sewage disposal facilities has been made it does not appear likely that any discus sions on the housing will be fin alized oakville opposes tax equalization often a thorny problem in hal- ton equalization of assessment am ong the ten municipalities has run into a snag again this year the equalization bylaw was ad opted last week over objections of oakvile whose reeve william card claims oakville has lost some land and the assesment has jump ed up assessor ford rogers explained that there is a difference in front age rates of residential land on the oakville trafalgar boundary he said that although there is a dis parity in actual land values the to tal of land and home values bal ances favourably the cause is land use restrictions in the township he said oakville is now allowed to ap peal the bylaw in court if the town so desires i 2 your new low service charge of 10 cents a cheque is prepaid when you get your book of 20 cheques 4 mondayjs public holiday dcminien say i no passbook quicker service deposit slips are in your cheque book for banking by mail or speedier service at the bank a quarterly statement is mailed to your home your cheques are held for you at the bank as a permanent record the canadian bank of commerce a mjmam acaoa catuaa auar to am georgetown branch d m winorove manager j weeds 5 s 5 your coope is requested georgetown bylaws require that owners keep the weeds 5 5 cut on their properties weeds create a nuisance to the v neighbourhood and owners are often careless in this respect hi 5 and particularly with reference to vacant lots it is re quested that everyone look over their properties and arrange 2 for the weeds to be cut before they flower and seed h is hoped that voluntary action will obviate the rmctslty of 5 action on the pavj of the munclpal authorities 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