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Show Mathew Bentley Presents Water Problems To Rotarians ' City Councilman Mathew Bentley was the guest speaker at the St. George Rotary club meeting held in the Arrowhead hotel on last Friday noon. Mr. Bentley discussed dis-cussed the possibilities of lowering lower-ing the. water rates in St. George and the possible effect that it would have. He pointed out that the city is under heavy obligations in the (Continued on page eight) Water Problems (Continued from first page) making of payments and interest for the next three years and that to reduce the rates too much would be disasterous and not permitted per-mitted by the government. After that period water bonds will have been paid off to enable the city to make a considerable reduction in rates. Several proposed schedules were presented by Mr. Bentley showing that he had given much time and study to the matter. Discussion by members of the club following his talk, revealed the fact that there are many ideas and opinions as to what would be the best rate charges to be made. |