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| . Sets Rate at $1.25. | I The bill enacts that the rate for Clg °t_ Liondon Bill Passes, gas in London is to be $1.25 a thou-- i6 Special committee was named sand feet, and such rate is to con-- ll'e'p?nthon the bill to authorize the tinue unttil there is a surplus over con obt e Hamilton G.W.V.A. club-- and above all legitimate charges and -- * "?]us? by the trustees. The proposed 10 per cent. on the capital invest-- 'fie; opposed by the Daughters of | ment. Last year a bill was brought the Empire at Hamilton, who helped | in fixing'the rate at $1.15, plus ten tso'l:'ha,is% funds for the punchase. i cents per thousand to go to a reserve | with P i'fty of London Bill was passed fund.© This reserve fund could be | l a few clauses changed. The drawn on by the company if an : 'gabuse't giving the city right to issue audit showed that $1.25 was a fair lpe entures for a dam at Springbank rate. Mr. McCrea contended that an ar.; was held over until an agree-- auvdit had revealed the fact that the l"i'"g is arrived at protecting the cost of gas to the company was $1.18 | rights of private persons affected. a thousand. The company now want-- 4 i rtanperee s ed the reserve and the new rate.