BOROUGH COUNCIL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1971, 16 October 1888, Page 2

BOROUGH COUNCIL

The ordinary forcnighly meeting was held last evening-. Present : Ttie Mayor ♦nd Ore Williamson, Bird, MoFarlane, Tucker, Fried Under, Thoma», Scaly and doott. Or Kelr, one of the recently elected Councillors, aigued the usual declaration and took hia seat. mayor's statement. The Mayor aiid that the debit balance at the Bank was £1422 8j 2d. The amounts which had been readved oluce last meeting were: — Licenses, oogs, 5s ; do, sundry, £4 16s ; rents, reserves, £11 12a 6d ; library acaouat, 1b ; rates, 1888, £32 4b. Total, £48 17a 6d. OOBRESrONDENOB. Loiters were read (1) From Messrs A, and T. Bart applying for fifteen fron pipes. The Oounoil some time ago, when Mr Brown's high pressure aohome was under consideration decided, that no more pipes should bj cold — t whs resolved on the motion of Or Friedlander that if thtpipes were urgently need d, Messrs Bart ooald have ttum, on oondiiion of replacing them as so >n as possible by similar ones.— (2) From County Coanoll stating that the Council had ap^oiutud » Oooamlttea to confer wilhonee fr.>m the Borough and Hampste»d Tjwu board m rsfereaoe to awateraap^ly fo; t^e Hauipjte.d district. — Ore FneJland r aud Willbmaon were appointed a Oommltee to represent the Borongh Coonoil.— (3) Fiora Mr J. Quane asking that h:a name be placed on tha burgesß roll. Left lv the hands of the Mayor.— (4) From Mr D Williamson pointing oat that there «r»s no arrange ment between the Council and himself iv regard to the iutakti of the water raoe running through his property. He thought it advisable iv the nterests of bothjpartleß that bo me arrangement should be come to. — AJ.atter referred to a Commlttee oonslatlng of Ora FriddUnder, Scaly, Bird *ud Thomas. (5) From Mr G. Oatei, protesting as a <( free oltizan " ■gainat fiah ciria, the property of nonratep»yera, taking up staada m the town without the permiaoion of the OounoU; — Or Scaly said that be had been spoken to by Me Gates on thts subj jot. What Mr Oatea seamed to object to was that these oattq took up their stands m pi toes where he had not been allowed to stand. — Left m lh<i hands of the Mayor.— (6) From Mr 0. M. Brooke offering to take over Borough reserve from Mr Strlbling, also from Mr Stribling asking permission to transfer his reserve to Mr Brooke. — Referred to ihe Works Committee.— (7) From Mr Brooke asking permission to be allowed to oarry on the manufacture of sheep dip. — Thlsjalflo was referred to the Committee.

EESBRVES COMMITTEE. A report from the Reserves Committee has brought np and adopted, ENQIN2HBS 1 BEPOBT. The Engineers' reported as follows}:— flampstead Water; Supply : Id answer to the letter from the County Council, referred to the Works OommUtge, a statement has been forwarded to the Ooanoil, together with a copy of report and letter that bad been sent to the Town Board, Labor gaop ; The labor gang have been engaged In lowering Wakanul Road weat, and oarting soil, watering streets, cutting and oarting gorse faaclnes, planting willows, clearing rubbish off streets, attending to wft'et supply. In order to reduce expenditure two of the men were discharged on Saturday last, ,; The report was adopted. ! \ In the ooarse of a conversation which arose on the report* the Engineer stated that two other members of the labor gang would be discharged In the .oourae of the week, THE RKDTCTIONS IN BENTS, Or Tucker asked a question In regard to thin subject. The matter was left m the hands of the Mayor. In the oourse of the disoußsion which arose on the subjeot, Or Tacker said that a legal friend had Informed him that the resolution adopted by the Oounoll m reapeot to th reduction of rents wai so mnob waate paper, inasmuoh an proceedings had not been taken under the Local Bodies Powers Aot, whioh Act was adopted by the Oonnoil some t'me ago.,

PgABirABM AID. The requeot of the Charitable Aid Board for the payment of the second half of the Boroagh'o Bobßldy wan ooualdeied The Mayor Bald that at the recent meeting of the Board, he h&d been astonished at finding the noiqber of looal bodlea which h*4 not pals any part of the ie contrlb.gtio.nfj. On hia moHon It bad been decided to make an effort to get these bodlea to pa.y qp, H 9 thooght that the Board'a letter ahoald be deferred for » month,

The letter was deferred aooordlngly. THE JUBILEE MBMOBIAX, A. letter wan read from Mr W. 0 Walker, on behalf of the aabaqrlbera to the Jubilee Memorial Fand, aßklng the OouaoU's permtßßion to erec^ the dock It had been decided to procure^ Id the turret of the Opnnoil Ohanabera, ft ad also asking the Council to uudertake the maintenance or the clook.

, Or Frledlander moved that the matter be referred to the Works Committee, In hfa opinion the purchase of the dock would be the smaller item of expense. Or Bird said that It would be tldlpulouß to put a clock, with a three-feet dial, aaoh ■b that mentioned m the letter, m the Oonßoll Chamber*. ;it ohould at leaat be half as large again. Or Se«ly oaid that fl ,firnj of olookmakers m OhrletQhqr^h, hac) stated that a dock 7»Q a three-feet dial would be quite suitable. One with a f our.(e«t dUI would ba better ; but « three-feet olook would do very ir^ll. He explained what had transpired at the meeting of oubßoriberß, The Mayor said that be had no doubt the Council would meet the; pubsoribera m every wey poeaible, and. he yraißure they appreqiated, the preference o$ $\$ Ooimiftirte© m regard io qhgaii^a k»»« qounoll^B Chamber* for. Ue e«e 9 U^-r, nf . h^ olook, The qqeittoa of exD ;"°J f *Jjereotioa tse «ui^Villty of P a ILJ? |e 6 t dial de««ve«l oonald3o n Sany hW °,° -5 th ° tUrret were Quired hJ h»d Jo doubt aa additional auSaoriptton could be started io the town and with ■ UCO6BO.

Of Scaly had omitted to atate tb»t» rough estimate of the ooit of fittlne ud the tuwet had been prepared, .ad It was m L wlthln the weana of the anbsorlbera. A The matter wib referred to the Workfl Committee.

PAYMBNTB. Accounts amounting to £22 were passed for payment and the Council adjourned.