CROMWELL TOWN COUNCIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 5, 8 December 1869, Page 3

CROMWELL TOWN COUNCIL.

A special meeting of the Council was held in the Town Hall on Monday evening last. The Mayor (Mr \V. H. Whetter) presided ; and the other members present were Councillors Dagg anil Badger. A. letter was read from Mr Bcehy, jeweller, Asking permission to have the use of the Town \ Hall on the evening of 31st inst.—Granted. Messrs Robert Brown anil Thomas Heron applied for permission to occupy a business site on the south side of Molmore-stveot, west of the Clutha Hotel stables.—Permission granted. The only application received for the olfice of Valuator to the corporation was one from Mr Id. Manders; and on the motion of Cr. Balger, seconded by Cr, Dagg. it was resolved that Mr Manders he appointed to the olfico. The Mayor called attention to the fact that from some unexplained cause the Bye-laws of the Corporation had never been submitted to the Provincial Council for approval, an 1 suggested that as the Council was about to hold a session, action should at once bo taken to have the ' matter rectified. Cr, Badger quite ag-ced with the Mayor as to the necessity for ‘.retting the Bvc-laws ratified by the Provincial Council without delay : and would therefore move that the Town Clerk be instructed to write to the Provincial Solicitor stating the facts, and urging his prompt attention to the matter.—Seconded by Cr. Dagg and agreed to. Cr Dagg was appointed to act as presiding officer at the nomination for Bridge Ward on Thursday (to-morrow) ; and Cr. Badger was deputed to supervise the polling, which, if found necessary, will take place on Monday next. There was some other business got through, but it was of an unimportant character. A vote of thanks was accorded to the Mayor, and the Council then adjourned.

Another special meeting of the Council was held at the usual place yesterday forenoon, the same members being again present. It w.as resolved, after some discussion, to instruct the Town Clerk to communicate with the Provincial Solicitor, requesting him to introduce a bill in the Provincial Council to legalize the past proceedings of the Corporation ; and it was further agreed to solicit the co-operation of Mr Fraser, M. P.C. for Gold-fields Towns, in getting the bill passed into law. [This course, it was stated, was rendered necessary in consequence of the Bye-laws of the Corporation not having up to the present time been ratified by the Provincial Council.] Cr. Badger introduced the subject of “ Land for settlement and for grazing purposes under the agricultural leasing system.” He said it was a well-known fact that at the present time not a single acre in the Cromwell district could he had for settlement except under sufferance from the runholders ; and he thought that the Council should certainly take steps to bestir the Government in the matter. He therefore proSposed—“That a respectful memorial be prepared, signed by the Mayor and Councillors, v sand transmitted to his Honor the Snpcrinten--1 Went, praying that a block of land in the district i Sf Cromwell may be thrown open for agricull; 'oral and grazing purposes under the leasing system ; and urging that the memorial he presented to the Provincial Council at the session now about to ho hold. ” i The motion was seconded by Cr. Dago, and \ was agreed to. \ Cr. Badger also moved—" That a copy of the \ letter received from the Provincial Treasurer lof [ 'htc 21th ult.), relating to Government subsidy, forwarded to Mr Fraser, M.P.C., together ith'a letter requesting him to use his intluence obtaining for the Corporation of Cromwell • e pound-for-pound subsidy in proportion to . te whole amount of rates collected during the 1 {lit municipal year. ” Seconded by Cr. Dagg, and agreed to. ! The Council then adjourned.