Tue 18 Aug 1896
Notices prohibiting bathing posted at Lodgemore. Police communicated with. Nuisance abated.
Messrs Apperly, Curtis & Co willing to pay £15 p.a. for right to take 15,000 gallons of water from canal daily and to attach suitable automatic ball valves to supply pipes to prevent overflowing and wasting water.
Committee Meeting held at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 18^th August 1896
Present: Sir W H Marling Bart Chairman, Mr H H Mills Solicitor, Mr W J Stanton, Mr E P Little Director, Mr W Davies.
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and signed.
The Clerk reported that notes prohibiting bathing at Lodgemore has been posted and the Police communicated with, & the nuisance had in consequence been abated.
The Clerk produced plans of the water tanks Messrs Apperly Curtis & C^o Ltd propose to erect, and stated that Messrs Apperly Curtis & C^o Ltd were willing to pay £15 per annum for the right to take from the Canal daily 15,000 gall^s of water.
Resolved that Mr Mills prepare an agreement between the Stroudwater C^o and Apperly Curtis & C^o Ltd on the above basis, similar in other respected to the existing "Agreement" between the Stroudwater C^o and Messrs Hooper & C^o, but providing that Messrs Apperly Curtis & C^o Ltd should attach suitable Automatic Ball Valves to the supply pips of their tanks, so as to prevent them from overflowing and wasting the Canal water.
Cheque drawn:
T Mortimer: £5..8..10
Memo:- No Meeting was held in September but the following cheques were drawn (viz):
Mr T Mortimer: 47..4..0
W J Snape: 37..10..0
W^m Fredericks: 6..10..0
[Total] £91..4..0
