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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 18 April 1913, Page 4

Last night tho City Council held it! last meeting. When tho business of the meeting concluded at twenty iniuutot after midnight, (lie usual seasonable poll to expressions of good-will were oxchanged. Tho Mayor wished councillors good health and long life in which to |;® r . v e tho city. To Councillors Smith and Slnrtcliffc, neither of whom wero standing again, he raid that they had always noted with filling decorum as councillors, had always behaved as gentlemen ought, and he regretted their retirement. ]3oth councillors took leave of their colleagues, and said that their association with i'uo council had been a most happy one. Councillor Smith has completed 28 years of service as a councillor, and lie said that he had more, than ordinary regrets about his departure.

The City Council decided last night to instruct the chief officers of tho corporation in charge of nil. departments to confer together and formulate a scheme, to be submitted to the Finance Committee, containing recommendations for classify, ing the staffs under their control, aiid fixing of salaries for officers in the various grades.

In connection with, t.lio motor cycling sports at Tmitham on Saturday iifit tho liailway Department have arranged 11 spcinl train service. Full particulars of tliii servico will be found on Page 7 of Uiis issue.