STATEMENT BY THE' MAYOR.
SEQUEL WILL BE FALSE ECONOMY. OVERDRAFT FORESHADOWED. v Exactly how the Mayor: (tho Hon. T. W. . Hislop) views the of the, voting :on the., '.loan proposals may bo gatbered'from ■ to. a deputation, of 'eight-' members of tho i Maranui District Electors' Association, which. - waited on-the City-CouncUlastnight-.with '^thft^:bbjert\of:' , ;ai»6riaiiung-^the:s^sitio , n-- ; ;'or ; affairs on tho matter of the Maranui tram- ; : way extension lino. Mr; G.'Smith, who acted as spokesman, - saids that tho t council .to undertake tho work , in ;. question < some months. It would now ! appear from newspaper reports that/some hitch had occurred in> : c6nnectiohwith.the/negotiations.'botween t!ie council and tho trustees of certain land. . The Mayor :-It,is not worth'whilo bothering about what is ih tlio press on that subject. ! I mav. iust as .well tell you now that tho proposal to borrow ,£46,000 for tramway and , " elcctric lighting purposes has; been' lost,: j;,
should ; limit. their, expenditure as »muoh as. possible.- _ They, 'had -two fire engines at. the .present time;; and'in: order that tho next council should not be involved in financial ■embarrassment by having extra burdens thrust on them, ho would move that the item be deleted from the report. ' : Tho council agreed.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 430, 12 February 1909, Page 6
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195STATEMENT BY THE' MAYOR. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 430, 12 February 1909, Page 6
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