The North Wales Express

I CARNARVON AND THE I ELECTRIC LIGHT. 1 RArEPAYERS' MEEFING. ACTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL CONDEMNED. A inec-tiiig convened for the purpose of opposing the Town Councils scheme of c-lvtric lighting was held at the Guild Hull on uigiit, Mr Charles A. Jones, solicitor, presided over a large attendance. He was supported on the platform bv Councillors R. Newton, J. Prichard. J. T. Roller's, iuul J. Fletcher, ::u<.1 Messrs J. R. Hughes. Daniel Rees, and A. Richards. Tin- Chairman said th:11. the meeting had been called to consider th^ proposal of the Town Council to incur an expenditure ot £ 17.000 for electric lighting purposes. The -.am appeared ratiter large, and it was necessarv that a meeting of ratepayers should he held to discuss the matter. He was really surprised that the Town Council had not summoned a public meeting before committing themselves to the heavy ex- Dei'diturt. now propo^d. It would have been better for the Council if they had done so, because the members were not at all unanimous with regard 10 the scheme it was proposed to adopt. The Council were offered another scheme which would only cost LGM) as against £ 17,000 required for the present scheme th"ar, hear). It would be within the recollection of those present, that. some two years ago he himself pro- moted or attempted to promote, a scheme of electricity in the town, but the Town Council opposed the scheme, which would not have cost the town a single penny (hear, hear), and went in for a provisional order themselves. lie opposed the present scheme because the town was already hcavih our- dened with loan liabilities, and trade was so depressed that un additional loan of £17.000 was a very serious question. In support, of his statement that the Town Council was not unanimous with regard to the scheme it was proposed to adopt, he would only mention the fact that four members of the Council occupied seats on the platform to show their opposition to the scheme. There were other members of the Council who wef stroRflv opposed to the scheme. With a large iniu-.l expenditure of £ 17,000, the selliJ'fS pr:cc necessary to make the scheme I pay n.udt be itigh and practically prohibi- -i., -h tive. The pru .-harged would be 6d per unit, whieh was i v ,.«e the pr ce of gas supplied in tbe tov. r, .e did not oppose the scheme I 0 fthc Council from any selfish motive. His opinion wa» that a scheme which would cost only 300C would be the best for the I town, an<: fmeeting that i.ight were to pa=s a mInn condemning the proposed scheme it woul'l have great weight with the Comnn ^IOJI T "ho would hold an inquiry on behalf of ilie Local Government Board I (hear hear). Councillor i. Prichard, ex-chairman of the Eie.-ivit; Li^ui Committee of the Carnarvon Town Council, jntered fully into the history of the mo\eur'n*; for the introduction of elee- tr citv in'o the town. When Mr Peterson ?.pp> iir^d on tl..> scene, and proposed to apply fO!' an (!r(. • ■ lighting order, the Council were niciiiicd to help him, but when he failed to carry out. an agreement with the Council, I that body dcoided to oppose his application, acid to apply for a Provisional Order them- selves. Mr Peterson failed in his application, and the Council obtained an order. Acting upon the advice of Sir W. H. Preece, the Council thought it would not be advisable at that time to put the Order in execution. Some eigln. or nine months later, the Na- tional Wiring Company approached the Council and offered to put their Order in force Their scheme was roughly this—the Council « n-e to provide £ 17.000, and the Council « n-e to provide £ 17.000, and the coiapanv undertook to repay to the Council sum every year v.Inch would cover the amount the Council would pay in sinking fund and interest. Sixpence per unit was to be charged for the light, this being equal to -Is for 1.000 cubic feet of gas. Under the Order they had power to charge 7d per unit, and it was felt at the time that by getting it for (3d they were gaining Id per unit. The 1 upany expected to lose £ 800 on the work- iiii* in ten years. They undertook to run the works for 20 years, but if tha Council wished works for 20 years, but if tha Council wished to take possession at the end of 10 or 15 years. t y could do so. At this stage he asked whether it was not better that the Council should do the work themselves, and payoff heir own loans as they went on rather than get a company to do the work and borrow money to pay off their loans? The outlines of the scheme were agreed upon, but before the in'wvi v.onal working agreement was signed, it was submitted to Mr Bryn Roberts, whose opinion was that it was I not binding upon any party until the ♦••instruction agreement had been tened. No man would agree with a builder to buiid a ttouse unless he knew he could get money to ¡. pay for the house, and the Council! were in a similar position. They could not agree to spend £ 17,000, unless they knew they were to be allowed to borrow £ l/,00d I to pay the contractors (hear. hear). In ■ I ne course, the Council having decided I to "pply for sanction to hcrow £ 17,000. ;u' inquiry was held, but in the meantime the North Wales Power Company had submitted a scheme to the Council, and to enable the Council to consider the scheme the inquiry was adjourned. The latter company offered to sell the Council electricity "ready-made for 3d per unit, equal to Us per 1,000 cubic feet of gas. Sir W. H. Preece, who had been advising the Council all along, was consulted, and his opinion was that it was quite possible } foi the Power Company to bring electricity 13 miles, and give the town a satisfactory supph. On a subsequent occasion. Sir W. H. Pi ect-o d that if the Power Company <-ed:e ed their price to 2M per unit, it would be cheaper to buy the current than produce it in Carnarvon, and the company had agreed to do so. No ni!«,n woeld go to the expense of oo-ting expensive buildings and machinery ;f be thought he could buy electricity cheaper in bulk (hear, hear). Mr W ilmhurst, of Derby, an electrical expert, was also con- sulted by th? Electric Light Committee of I ti." Council, and he reported on the merits of the two schemes. He objected to the scheme of the Power Company because the light i"light h" a flickering light, and he "ecom loeuded the Council to adopt the scheme of :m Wiring Company because they did not propose to do mvthiug that was not sound. fie (Mr Prichard) thought, however, that Mr Wdmhur-t was biassed in favour of muni- cipal undertakings of the kind. Thatgentlr- man also objected to the Power Company be- cause they were at that time practically non- existent. He (the speaker) thought the wisest plan would be for the town to go in for the smaller scheme first, buy the electricity in bulk, and put down mains to distribute the current (which would have to be done under any scheme), and if it 'vas found that the supply in bulk was not satisfactory, tha Couneii could put up their own station, and electricity. But if they spent the .17,0(^0 now. they mipht find in two years' htiic that they could buy electricity cheaper than they could make it themselves, and then they would be regretting the extra expendi- ture of £ 11.000. being the difference between the first, and second schemes. He thought the Council were beginning at the wrfnfr emT I lib •.•trio Light- I ing Committee, as the result of much de r.Uon, decided not to proceed with th^ .sen >Mie of the Wiring Company who in co:i sequence (hreaten<vl legal proceedings. Mr 3rvn Kob'-vts v, as a5r»m consulted, and he repeated what he had already said, namely, that the agreement with the company was not binding until the construction agreement had been signed. The Council decided to approach the Wiring Company in a friendly spirit, and offer them actual out-of-pocket expenses. A deputation appointed by the Council went up to Loudon to see the com- pany, but they refused to discuss the matter with the deputation. Subsequently, the Council consulted Mr Asquith. and he con- firmed Mr Bryn Roberts's opinion—if any- thing, his opinion was stronger (hear, hear). He said that the Council had no legal lia- bility in the matter, and were at liberty to proceed or not, as they thought fit. The Wiring Company claimed J.7,000 damages from the Council, and this was certainlv very strange in view of the fact that the company in their original statement anticipated a loss in seven years of £ 2.000, and in ten years of £ 800. But a loss of £ C0G i:. L"i years had now been cor.. erted into a profit of £ 7,000 (hear hear). There were only five members of the Council who were out-and-out in favour of the scheme of the Wiring Company, and 19 were opposed to it. The majority. however, feared litigation, and had voted for the adoption of the scheme of the com- pany. Thev were going to force the scheme down the throats of the ratepayers, whether they wanted it or not but he did not believe the ratepayers would allow them to do so (hear. hear). To decide the matter one way or another they would take the exepeVienee of other towns that had gone in for electric light. In Ba-igor, similarly situated to Car narvou, it cost 3d per unit to manufacture the electricity, whereas in Carnarvon it could, be bought in hulk for L! £ d. The Power Company were ready to erect a tem- porary station at Carnarvon, until their works were ready at Llyn Llydaw. and why should the Town Council of Car narvon put up a station of their own when other people were ready to do it for them? He did not think the Council had given the matter the consideration it de- served-(henr. hear)—and he hoped the rate- payers would say that it was not their wish that so large an expenditure should be in- curred when there was a probability of their being able to get the work done at a much I lesf; cost (hear, hear). Councillor J. T. Roberts gave a summary in Wehh of what the previous speaker had said in English. He added that he was pledged to no particular scheme, and desired ;1 free hand for the town to adopt any scheme best suited to it. If the electric light were introduced into The town very few ratepayers would use it, but should the scheme prove a failure the burden would fall upon everybody alike, the rich and the poor (hear, hear). If they adopted the scheme of the Power Com- pany. they would not have to spend more money than would be necessary; mains would have to be put down whichever scheme they adopted, but if they erected expensive works as was proposed, perhaps in ten years' time there would be quite a revolution in the way of generating electricity, and the money spent. it would have been wasted. He must say that he had lost. faith in the Wiring Company, who, having estimated a loss of E800 in ten YdtrS now claimed damages from the Cor- poration to the extent of £ 7,000. The rate- payers had pledged themselves to go in for the electric light, and that was done in order to defeat Mr Peterson. It was now a ques- tion whether they should go in for a scheme costing fli.IIOO or one costing only £ 6,000. If for £ 6,000 they could get a scheme that would answer the purpose in Carnarvon. that was the one they should certainly adopt cheers) Mr L R. Hughes proposed "That this meet- ing of ratepayers strongly protest against the proposal to borrow S 17.000 for electric lighting purposes, when t;n equally satisfac- tory scheme can be obtained at a very much smaller outlay, and having regard to the heavy liabilities which already exists." He said that as an old member of the Council he felt very much for the present members. They had four councillors on the platform that night, and he thought they would make the nucleus of a n?w Council if required (laughter). They had heard about the strong backbone of the Council, and also that there were five members who were in favour of the Wiring Company's scheme. He knew who the five were. Out of the five—he would not name then'- four had been rejected by the ratepayers—-daughter)—and the fifth had been pitchforked into the Council (renewed laughter). He had been speaking to a pro- minent member of the Council upon this matter, and had told him that there was a strong feeling in the town against adopting the scheme proposed by the Council That gentleman said in reply that he considered it th best scheme. and as long as he was satisfied it was immaterial to him what the rutepayevs thought ("Shame"). The Cuundl had been talking about advertising the town. They could advertise it as much as they liked, but. if they were going to intro- duce a scheme to spend money every six months wh^re were they as ratepayers to come in? they did not know whether they had ever considered that the rates at pre- sent, including the water rate, were 9s 6d in the £ ("Shame"). He thought the Coun- oil. after their expericuc in connection with the Aber Bridge. would have stopped borrow- ing money for sonic years to come. The rate- pacers were paying a sum equal to a 5d rate to make up the annual loss on the Aber Bridge. If Carnarvon was going to keep pace with other towns, the ratepayers must be careful what kir.d of men they got to repre- sent them on the Town Council. They saw on the platform that night the only four mem- bers of the Council who knew anything about electricity—(laughter)—and they had been inanly enough to come forward to say what they were going to do. There were five mem- bers of the Council who had signed the peti- tion against granting the loan, but they did not appear on the platform, because they wished the town to think that they were in favour of the -henie. It was time the rate- payers paid greater attention to the doings of the Town Council. Was it right that they should be represented by men who had no backbone? (laughter and" Hear. hear.") If they were not strong enough to represent the latepayers they should be manly enough to say so. and they would find men who would be prepared to take up the work in their place. Though the Town Clerk said the threat of the Wiring Company was all bluff. they must needs incur the expense of sending a deputation to London to interview the Wir- ing Company, and now they had engaged a barrister at a fee of £ 15 to represent them at the inquiry. The largest ratepayers of the town, representing between one-third and one-half the rateable value of the town, had signed a petition against granting a loan. Had the working-men of the town been ap- pealed to the petition would have been far more extensively signed, but they did not ask the working-men to sign it. because the scheme of the Wiring Company had been framed in such a wav that the districts where they lived had been left out of it. The scheme had been muddled in such a way that. one could hardly believe that men above the age of five had' been at it (laughter). Per- haps the Mavor fel that during his year of office he would like to start some sort of a scheme. He might conscientiously believe that the scbemfe adopted by the Council was the best. and the one that would pay. There- I for-. it would go dowi us ''isrury .hut during his ve c' of office an electric light scheme hac" I been started in Carnarvon. Mr Daniel Rees seconded the icotire,. hXi,- referred to the fact that the town was uJreadv heavily burdened w.ih liobdit.es. ThP1, wa; a loss of £ ">00 .anuallv on the Abcr Bridge- equal to ft. rate of od in the E. By the erec- tion of baths on the Aber side another bur- den would be placed upon the ratepayers. The site of the proposed baths was the worst that could have been selected. All the filtil of the Straits was swept there (laughter). I: was now proposed to spend £ 17.000 on an electric scheme, and this was the most fool- ish proposal yet. in view of the fact that a scheme costing only £ 6,000 would have an- swered the purpose. They ought to profit by the experience of towns like Bangor and Holyhead, where the electric light was a failur" and a burden upon the ratepayers. The Mayor of Carnarvon (Mr W. G. Thomas) said he cam" to the meeting to lis- ten to what the opponents of the scheme had to say. and he was determined not to say a word to hurt the feelings of anybody (hear, hear). If he had been personally insulted he would not have cared, but he had been in- sulted in his capacity as Mayor of the borough (hear. hear). Mr J. R. Hughes had, moreover, spoken disrespectfully of all the members of the Council. If they could not argue fairly on a public platform they should not argue at all (hear, hear). Every mar. had a right to his opinion, and he (the Mayor) did not wish to speak disrespectfully of those who disagreed with him (cheers). He was one of the three who had from first to last favoured the scheme of the Wiring Company. at d he was now described as a man without. a. backbone. Mr Prichard had put the mat • ter very fairly before the meeting—(hear, hear)—but. at the same time, he "did not agree with him. It would be better for the town to go in for a scheme that would not b^ a otirden '-a the rates, and he ventured to say that the scheme of the Wiring Company I would cost the ratepayers nothing (" Ques- 0 tion "). At the end of 20 years the works would be the property of the town. He would not speak upon the question whether thev should or should not go in for the elee- tiic light. They had all said that they must have it. (A Voice: "We do not want it"). Thev had committed themselves to it (A v0ic "You h:ive no right to say so"). If they adopted the scheme of the Power Com- pany the ratepayers would have to pay £ 6,000 and interest, and any loss on the working I would have to be made good out of the rates, He preferred the scheme that would not be a burden on the rates (hear, hear). Mr Butler. Twthill, said that the ratepay- ers wer." not asked whether they wanted the electric light or not. There was a strong feeling in the town that the rates were suffi- cientlv high already, and that the ratepayers 1 could not afford to go in for another expen- i-ives(heme. He was afraid that not one or two or three, of the members of the Council were to be blamed, but the whole lot. They had taken the matter up as if for show. They started to buy a tame lion (laughter). The lion had come, and it had turned out to be a wild animal, and all were afraid of going a wild animal, and all were afraid of going near it (laughter). He proposed, as an 1 amendment, "That the ratepayers do not. go ir for the electric light ;hear, hear). The Chairman That is not the question we have to consider. We are here to oppose the borrow ing of £ 17,000. Mr W. M. Roberts, Rhosaiean, asked whether the original resolution committed the meeting to any scheme. The Chairman replied that it did not. Mr J. 1". Roberts suggested that the re- solution shoull read, "That this meeting of ratepayers strongly protest, against the pro- posal to borrow £ 17,000 for electric lighting purposes, as they are advised that the ex- penditrre of so large a sum is unnecessary. The proposer and the seconder accepted the amendment. Mr R. Raideigh Jones: Are we bound to go in for the electric- light or allow anybody else to go on with it? "J he Chairman We are bound. The Town Council have obtained an-Order, and if they do not go on with it, somebody else can get an order and will do so. Mr R. R. Jones: If somebody went in i'or an Order, could we oppose it? The Chairman. No. Mr J. Prichard pointed out that the Order obtained by the Council would expire on the 23rd of June next. The present was not the time in say that they did not want the elec- trie- light, because they had already decided to go in for it. The. motion was put to the meeting, and the Chairman declared that it had been car- ried, with only one dissentient, nameh. the Mayor. (in the motion of Mr J W. Jones. Castle square, seconded by Captain R. Jones, a numoel' of gentlemen were deputed to give evidence at the inquiry against the scheme. AN APOLOGY. Dear Mr Mayor,—I much regret my re- marks re yourself at last night's meeting 1 were taken in a light not intended, and thore- by causing you to feel pained. I can assure you it was far from my mind to suggest any- thing dishonourable or unbecoming to your self as Mayor of the town. Knowing von so long, I am convinced you will accept my as- surance, when I say. although often dis- j agreeing, I give yoli credit for being con- scieiitious and above-hoard in all your deal- ings with public matters.—Yours faithfully J. R. HUGHES, Gwyp.fa, April 19, 1904. P.S.— I am sending a copy of above to the local papers.—J. R. H.

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THE LOSS OF A CARNAR VON LICENSE. ACTION FOR DAMAGES. 1 On Monday, in the King's Bench Division. Sir Joseph Walton gave judgment in the case of Geddes v. Porter, heard before him at the recent. Chester Assizes. The claim I was for £ 200 damages sustained by plaintiff under certain covenants in a lease under which the defendant held the Arvon Tavern at Carnarvon. At the trial Mr S. Moss, M.P., and Mr Ellis J. Griffith, M.P. (in- structed bv Mr Richard Roberts, Carnar- von) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr S. T- Evans. K.C. M.P., Mr Bryn Roberts, M.P and Mr Montgomery (instructed by Messrs I Nee and Gordon Roberts, Carnarvon) were for the defendant. His Lordship now re- I viewed the facts and delivered the following judgment:— In this case. R. S. Geddes, of Carnarvon. L sued James Porter, trading as the Robin aon Brewery Company, for damages for cer- tain breaches of covenants in a lease of the Arvon Tavern. Carnarvon, and dated 14th February, 1893. On 13th May. 1890, a Mr Wynn granted a lease of the Crown to John Jones, expiring on the 1st June. 1911. and on February 14th. 1893, Jones granted a lease to Mr James Porter at a rent of £ 20 yearly expiring in 1907. In June. 1896, Mr Porter paid a premium of £3:m. In June, 1896. Mr Porter assigned the lease to the Robinson Brewery Company, in which he had a considerable interest. In November, 189S, Mr Jones assigned his lease and inter- est as sub-lessor under the lease of the 14th February. 1893, to a Mr Evans, the latter in 1899 assigned his interest to the plaintiff for the sum of £ 51. though the legal assign- ment was not carried out until 1S03. The covenants relied upon provided, among other thing., that Porter for himself and his assigns should do nothing by which the license might be forfeited .and should en deavour to procure a renewal of the license whenever possible, and that if the license was lost by an offence against the licensing law he was to pay John Jones th- sum of JO. In April. 1899 a Thomas Williams was the actual occupying tenant of the Ar- von Tavern, holding under the Robinson Brawery Company, and on the 17th April. 1899, he was convicted of permitting drunk- enness on licensed premises and was fined. At the next licensing session', application wa smade that the license should be trans- ferred to Harriet. Williams, but the applica- tion was refused. At the adjourned licens- ing sessions of September, 1900, the license was renewed to Henry Lloyd Williams, and 011 the 12th November it was transferred to Harriet Williams. The license was re- newed to Harriet Williams in September. 1901, and it was worth remark that all these renewals were made after the conviction of the 17th April. 1899, and therefore the jus- tices did not appear to have treated the con- viction as a matter which would have justi- fied them in taking away the license. On the 10th December. 1901, Harriet Williams was convicted of allowing liquor to be con- sumed on the premises during prohibited hours, and she was fined 10s. She had to give notice to quit, and that notice expired on the 30th January. 1902, and she gave up pos- session. There was then a temporary trans for to a Mr Green in February. 1902. but the justices refused to give the full transfer- ence to him, on the ground that he did not intend to devote all his attention and time to the business. The Brewery Company, meanwhile, were trying to get another ten- ant. but without much success, and in Nov- ember another application to grunt the license to a Mr Cole was refused, and the house was closed. Upon these facts, the plaintiff alleged there had been br. aches of the covenants. He found that there was no breach of the covenants as to the first and second points. On the next point there was more difficulty -had the defendant done anything whereby the license might be forfeited? lie agreed with Mr Justice Kennedy that the miscon- duct of a tenant could not be held to be the misconduct of the lessor, where the tenant was not immediately under his control. That applied to the present case. and he held, therefore, there had been no breach of the third covenant. The fourth question was whether the defendant Porter had en- deavoured to procure the renewal of the license at all proper times. He thought he had done so. and there had been no breach on that point. The next question was whether the license was lost or not renewed through the acts. default, or negligence of the defendant, and whether plaintiff had made out that the refusal was caused by the conviction of Thomas and Harriet Williams. Prior to 1903 there had been considerable agitation in Carnarvon for the suppression of unnecessary licenses, and he understood that wherever there had been a conviction the police opposed the renewal. The license in question, he thought, after hearing the evidence, was an unnecessary one. The Brewery Company could not get a tenant. and the house was closed, and he believed it was that fact and not the convictions which operated on the minds of the jcstices in refusing the license. The burden of proof being on the plaintiff, he was far from being satisfied that the license was lost as a result of the convictions. Therefore the plaintiff had failed to make out his case. There was no real and appreciable damage. and judgment would be for the defendant. with costs.

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