ONSLOW AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 923, 16 September 1910, Page 8

ONSLOW AFFAIRS.

MEETING OP COUNCIL.

. mbrithjy/ meeting', ,'of ' the Onslow. JSorough; .Council held>'last : evening; was' attended by the Mayor'(Mr. J, G. Jtlarkness), ;and-Councillors 'Bannister, Aplin, Stafford, Plimmur,'Ferguson, iLynrieuerg,' liiernan, ; : B6wdeni/and, Darvall. : :! District fund accounts.; amounting/ tci 'i£X77. (is;; ll)d. and ■ the catchment. loan/ac-' fcoiintS; of 18s;. were-;passed ; for payment. .' . j -

• It;.jrsa agreed; that;, tho chgineor's recoiii.' Emendation, conccrning. itho: Cashmere ''Eshew.' roads i i.eii certain completing, works": oarried- out: by . the .company- or' ; aii equivalent'/sum: deposited •with the council.', :-.

An application' was': made , by'^tto."'']^' .pire>Oil;'Wmpapy,ffLtd;;'':for-':'a-:pe'rifi'it;"t6' /build a :g^vanised';ir6u;'stbruvfor;'tiie,.iv ■ception-of' mbtbr'spirit, benzine,' L'tcij-on ;the'.,scclibn i ::adjofnirigCable's'' founary.'ivt 'ltaiwarra: that. tho. application/should:-be.-^declined .on' account, the ;tire.^ri'sk'.involved' and the . tendency to,. taisef ' insurance ■ ; rates.' A number of councillors took'- thu ''ciih-' 'jtrary-'i.vieiv, -.hblaingth'qt: business .dhoultL .nbt.-b'eblocked. ;:.; The. .Mayor, remarked that tfio ■ council would bo safeguarded !if it -Tvbru. stipulated; that 'the building be erected ;in '.brick or.'; concrete, vl' ' ■ ■ i ; 1'... Finally ;.it'. T\'as; decided i'tb x:grant-a'-:per-mit for'; tlie ',6.reption •of -a ' store 'in; bricki

An _ .application by / the : Khandallah .Bowling Club for', permissioni; to' erect a pavilion, was granted. /■i;-/.'.' "■' /'■.'■ ■ .The.' Mayor; sa'id'vlhe,'.Q6vernment had 'Seenvfit'- i to , ';' / have' ; ;ra'nwoy^'Batts^pii ; . ;, '.tiie' ICliandallah. Road';locked -between;.; tlie hours of .5-p.mV;an ! d.i8 i a^m;. •> Tlio/gates were .locked ;all /day onSunday.. vL'his' imposed- ■■serious/ inconvenience to :/, the travelling public. -.'.iw •>/•■

' It.. was ; agreed that a de|pu t'atioh' >' consisting/ofi councillors'/ fethe; Railway Department to ask that some arrangement, bo made 'to abate, the inconvenience now caused. . ..; '-■

The councillors ;of Kharidaliah : /ward, together with the 1 .-Mayor; w'ere constituted, a committee vto'- report:.;to V| the/, council 'on •ai to;erect a.public tiall lin-Khan-.