EASTBOURNE WATER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1709, 28 March 1913, Page 6

EASTBOURNE WATER.

COUNCIL AT ODDS. HAVE MATTERS BEEN "RUSHED"? A special meeting of the Eastbourne Borough Council was held yesterday afternoon, tho Mayor (Mr. AV. Shortt) presiding. Councillors Button, i'ilclier, Wills, Organ, Hoss, liaicourt, and Moss were also prasent. The business was to receive a motion by Councillor Organ, to rescind the Mayor's motion, which was, in. effect, that a poll be taken on the question of a Water supply' scheme. Tha Mayor's motion was u.oved and carried at the last meeting of tho council. Councillor Organ's objection to the motion was principally on. the grounds that the Mayor , had not given prtfper notice. Moreover, all the councillors wore not present when the motion was carried. When the Mayor put Councillor Organ's motion to-the meeting, tho mover stated that he desired tho motion to be held over until the next meeting of the council. He pcinted out that all the councillors were not preseut. ' The Mayor replied that he. understood that proper notice of the meeting had been given, and if the matter was held over the possibility of. hiking, the poll on the water scheme at the forthcoming elections would be lost. However, he was not going to rule in the matter, as he considered it was a matter for tho councillors to decide,.

Councillor Organ then formally moved that the eoiuuil adjourn until to-night at 8 o'clock at liona Bay. Councillor Button seconded the motion, and said that when the Mayor's motion was carried two councillors .were absent. He did not think that business of so serious a nature should have been, rushed through shortly before the council meeting concluded, and' he did not think it a fair thing that such business should be placed on the shoulders of "a new council, especially when the Mayor was not seeking re-election. Councillor Wills was opposed to the meeting adjoarning, and said that he .wanted to see the borough supplied with an efficient water supply. Mr. Harcourt expressed himself as being against tho motion. . Councillor Organ's motion that _ the meeting be adjourned until to-night at Kona Bay was then put to the meeting end carried. , . •

Councillors Wills and Harcourt, in voting in, the negative, intimated that they would not be present at the meeting. . The council'received the report of tlie sub-committee appointed to go into the matter of sites for boat sheds 011 the Itoiia Bay, and Muritai beaches. The report recommended that applications for permission to bijild boat sheds on sites set aside by the council be gran-ted, at a fee of £1 per year; that all sheds be built and painted subject to the approval of the council that tenants shall not sublet, or use the sheds for any other purpose than that which they are intended,for; that,the licensee or tenant shall have the right to move the building at tlio 'expiry of the lease; that the houses be built according to planl laid down by the council, and that the studs be 6ft. high, and gable roofs bo used.

The report was amended as follows and adopted: "That the fee bo 10s., instead of -El per year; and that the council has the right to determine the lease of any shed upon giving one month's notice, if the council is satisfied that such shed is be--j ing used for any , purpose than as a boat shed." '