NEWS AND NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2149, 15 May 1914, Page 10

NEWS AND NOTE S.

ABATTOIR IMPROVEMENTS. g TO BE CARRIED OT!T AT ONCE. ?! • . n • ■ .. ~ c Tlie proposed improvements at the. ■£ city abattoirs, rendered necessary by the ° largo increase of work there, were again j mentioned at the' City Council last } night, .when the Finp.nco Committeo re- i: commenclctl that tho work should bo undertaken immediately, and paid for d ■out of the c moneys from the abattoir n fund, any deficiency to bo made Tip ° from the district fund. ■ The Mayor (Mr. q J. 1\ Luke) .said, that there was an t urgency, for tho 1 work, for it was re- ° quired to provide facilities to allow tho j , public to get the best meat. _ i; Councillor Fletcher did not think the 5 fees received v at the abattoirs''should' be 'j taken for this purpose. Tho MayoF assured the councillors ■. that this would not bo necessary. ■'".'■ . '«' A division was'taken as to whether the Tecommendatipn should be carried, and the voting resulted in a tie. Tlio Mayor gave bis casting vote for the v recommendation. 'A sum of £1850 is in- s . volved. .'.-■■■ . ■".•■ -.''"■■ , . x ■ In giving his , casting vote for "the Efflond time- 'during the. evening, the I Mayor said, that ho wanted to express * , his disapproval of-those members of tho Finance Committee ■who'.'wero in favour \ of,the proposal in,committee, but op- \ posed to it-at'tho council-mooting.. •■•. tj Councillor H. Buddlo:' "I; was- uh- K fortunately detained from attending the* V committee meeting." ■ ~'..' .. • \ Councillors G. Fnwt and AV...H. ?. \ Barber both , claimed' to have;;-received ■ ;\ extra information sinco' thc'dato'of tho '■■ committee meeting. . '.'.'./-.■