AKAROA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 253, 20 December 1878, Page 2

AKAROA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Installation of Mayor.

The annual meeting of the Akaroa Borough Council took place on Wednesday last at noon, as provided in terms of section 70 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1876. Present—His Worship the Mayor (in the chair), Crs Waeckerle (Mayor elect), Penlington, Cullen, Bridge, and Henning. The Mayor then handed Cr Waeckerle

the keys of the seal and the office, and inducted him into the chair, he having first made and subscribed the declaration required by the Act.„„. v ~,,, .TheYJVlayotf elect proposed a vote of to-tbe/retiringj. Mayor for his services! during fl 1$ ) •" Cr 'Bridge the'motion. During tho kJine he -a seat in the -Cmuij-il, he&ad'always seen his Worship give a grejtt"ah/omit of time to the duties of bis\offiee. //H"2 had also at various times beemt)u.oi: expenses connected thetfewithMor The last year had not be_n altogether as peaceful as it might have been," but for all that, things might have been worse. He hoped that for "The! future all wofild work-toge-' ther harmoniously. ■■.'■■ ' : The motion was carried unanimously.

..„ Mr H. G. Watkins, the retiring Mayor, thanked them for their kind expression of opinion; /Without reiterating what he bad "already'given expression to, he thought they had got over their most serious difficulties, and that during tho coming year fewer would arise. At their next meeting a letter from -the Colonial Secretary would be laid before them, from which they would spe that the Government had made a very large deduction from? their, subsidy on account of the Hospital. He thought this was not right, as, as' far as' he was aware, all the cases treated in it came from outside the Borough, and were properly chargeable to the County Council. Once more he thanked them for their kind vote.

The Mayor would like to say a few words. He had now been thirty-eight years resident in tbe place, and since they had possessed free constitutional institutions he had filled several offices. While a member of the Road Board he had worked for the district at large, and now they were a borough he would do his best for the town. He would do his very utmost to preserve harmony and unity among them. He looked upon the councillors as bis advisers, and would always be guided by their advice us far as possible. The proceedings then terminated.