MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 199, 2 September 1873, Page 6

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Town Council was.mid in the Town-hall on Thursday evening. There were present,—the Mayor, Mr Freer, and Crs. Dawkins, Grant, Wright, Shanly Hayes, and Pierce. The meeting was opeied punctually at 8 o’clock. The minutes of last general aid special meetings were read and confirmed CORRESPONDENCE. The outward correspondence wts read and approved of. It consisted of letters, amongst others of the usual routine chancier, to the j Colonial Secretary in re the reappointment j of the Mayor as Justice of the Peace ; to the j Chief Postmaster, Dunedin, in re the mail j service ; to the Agent, Bank of New South j Wales ; to the Town Clerk, dawkesbury, in ! rc hawker’s licenses; to the Commissioner of Police, in re the appointment! an 1 nspector of Nuisances, Ac., and recommending Sergeant Cassels for the appointment. Inward Correspondent.—The Mayor reported having received a telegram from the Gold-fields Secretary, in re the permanent levels, that no Engineer could be spared to attend to that duty for some months to come. ACCOUNTS. Accounts due to Messrs Moore, Beattie, Mac Nab, Wright (J.), Robertson, Wright (I), Lawson, Maxwell, Brooks, and Miller, amounting to £32 2s 6d., were passed for payment. Accounts received were ordered for reference to the Tinance Committee. TENDER. One tender only vas received for constructing and laying boxes in race, that of William Stuart, the amount being £2B 10s. It was accepted. INSTRUCTIONS TO TOWN CLERK. The Town Clerk was instructed to attend to the transfer to the Corporation, of their share in the Westmoreland water-race ; to draw the attention of the Athemenm Committee to the matter of supplying more chairs in the Town-hall ; to ask the District Surveyor to fill in (on the map of the town furnished by Mm) the measurements of all the sections, to colour the various reserves, and procure the signature of the Chief Surveyor thereto ; and to ascertain the cost from the same gentleman of taking the permanent levels of Melmore and Inniscort-streets, as far as Down-street, and the branches of Tunis, Murray, Sligo, Ends, Achil, and Monaghanstreets. MOTIONS OF WHICH NOTICE HAD BEEN GIVEN, Cr. Grant was then called upon to move the motion of which he had given notice at last meeting of the Council. Instead of doing so, Cr. Grant moved another, similar to the one mentioned, but setting forth at more length and more definitely how the proposed narrowing of the main street should be done, and how the portion of the ground thus taken off the street should be dealt with. The terms of the new motion included and provided for the portion of the main street bounding block XXVI I, as well as that opposite block IX. In speaking to his motion, Cr. Grant, while admitting the difficulty of doing this, thought the advantages which would arise from a settlement of the block IX question, and the gain to the freeholders in block XXVII, would more than repay

thorn for tho trouble in seeing the thing done Besides, ha thought “57 feet was plenty wide enough” .for the main street of Cromwell. * The motion was not seconded, although a lengthy and irregular discussion took place upon it. All the Councillors apparently were generally in favour of the motion, but thought only that portion of the street opposite block IX should be interfered with, so that one fruitful cause of discontent should be removed, and those persons who had built upon the reseive be able to get proper titles for their ground. In reply to this latter reason, and in answer to Or. Shanly, Cr. Pierce remarked that the interests of those persons who had built upon the street, and upon block IX, should be in no way consulted ; they had taken tho responsibility I upon thorn®lves, and they must abide by it. Cr. Dawkins then suggested the following motion to Cr. Grant, which was passed, Cr, Grant mo'ing, and Cr. Dawkins seconding it; “That a memorial be forwarded to the : Superintendent, requesting him to take steps to reduce the width of Melmore-terrace to a uniform width of 57 feet, from the Cromwell Bridge ;o Achil-street. That the ground be- I tween Hurray-street and Achil-street, on the i south-vest side of Melmore-street, be then 1 eithergranted to the Corporation as a Muni- ;; ciprul deserve, or surveyed into sections and i sold.’ It was then resolved, on the motion of Cr. I Shaily, seconded by Cr. Pierce, to fence in J the Corporation reserve, from Mr Colclough’s - house to the A rgus printing office; on the I motion of Cr. Wright, seconded by Cr. Shanly, ; to paint and repair the Town-hall. ASSESSORS. The Town Clerk was then instructed to call | hr applications to fill the offices of two Asses-1 | tors for the current year, at the usual fee of I i£3 os. each. The Legislative Committee was instructed I to bring un a report on the Bye-laws at the I next meeting. NOTICE OF MOTION. Cr. Dawkins at next meeting to move— d “ That no pigs be allowed to be kept within I the Municipality after Ist October next.” | Tho usual vote of thanks to the chair con-1 eluded the proceedings.