CROMWELL TOWN COUNCIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 1, 3 November 1869, Page 2

CROMWELL TOWN COUNCIL.

An ordinary meeting of the Council was held in the chamber on Monday evening, 25th nit. The Mayor (Mr W. H. Whetter) presided ; and there were also present Councillors Burrows, Batgor, Fraer, and Dagg. The acting Town Clerk (Cr. Fraer) read the minutes of two previous meetings, which were duly eonfivme.l. Correspondence from various parties was read and disposed of. One application only was received for the office of Town Clerk aud Kate Collector—viz., that of Mr James Miller, who stated in his letter that ho had formerly held a similar office. After some conversation on the subject, it was resolved that Mr Miller's application be accepted, and the acting Town Clerk was instructed to no'.ify him' of his appointment. The salary fixed was stated to be £3O per annum-, and 10 per cent, commission on all rates collected.' A discussion took place relative to the urgent necessity that- exists for the erection-of a new Court-house,-the building at present used as a hall of justice being in every respect totally inadequate for the'purpose. It was'stated that a sum of £3OO had been voted at the last session of Provincial Council for a nerf hnildhig, and a motion instructing the Town Clerk to write to the Government on the subject was unanimously agreed to. [Although we happened to' bo present at the above meeting, we had at that time no intention of publishing the Allots at so early a date. The report, therefore, is written from memory, and is possibly somewhat incomplete.]