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REFUSE TO PAY GAS BILLS
Residents East of G.T.R. Claim They Are Not Liable
Say Meter Kept Right on Ticking Whether There was Any Gas or Not
[Welland Telegraph, 16 February 1912]
Incensed because the gas pressure had been very low, a number of citizens residing east of the G.T. R., refused to pay their gas bills to the Industrial Natural Gas Company for the month of January, when the collector called.
It was stated on Wednesday that the total number of those who refused to pay was probably about twenty-five or thirty, and that there were about seventy users. They claimed that several times there has been practically no gas, but that the meter kept right on ticking off the feet with as much energy as before. Therefore they issued an ultimatum that as there was no gas there should be no money.
An enquiry from T. Coulter of Port Robinson, manager of the company, on Wednesday morning, elicited the information that the affair was not as serious as stated. He claimed that those who refused to pay did not run up to anywhere near the number mentioned.
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