KAKORI AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2280, 14 October 1914, Page 3

KAKORI AFFAIRS

BOROUGH COUNCIL'MEETING. At last night's meeting of the Karori Borough Council, the Mayor (Mr. W, T. Hifdreth) presided, and there, were also present: Councillors B. G. Burn, W. Bradnock, A. Hamilton, L. 1 , . Davies, P. 0. Jordan, J. W. Henderson, T. R. Boyes, AY. Skegg, and C. T. Cimino. Correspondence betweon the . Mayor and the Tramway Board of Management in regard to the Karori tram service was lead. The council is still waiting a roply from the board in the matters of (1) reduction of car mileage, (2) abolition of stop-over time, and (3) revised time-table. The Mayor in his last letter to tho board stated that, if the fact of cars having to be allowed sufficient timo 'to go as far as Karori Park was the ca,use of the stop-over charge, the council was prepared, to do away with tho option passengers have of demanding to have a car seiit down by paying for ten passengors. Councillor Hcndorson suggested that tho difficulty might, bo satisfactorily overcome by tho hire of a box car, which could be ran from council chambers to the park, ■ the council providing its own niotormau. and pay-, iiig for the.power consumed. After brief discussion it was resolved to rofer the correspondence to the Tramway Committee for report.

An application was recoived from the Karori Cricket Club for the use of .pitches on Karori Park. Tho Works Committee recommended that the club bo granted two pitches, one for the senior team at a cost of £i for tho season, and another for the boys at a, cost of £1 for the season.' Tho Mayor and several councillors considered that the council might well encourage cricket among tho younger generation by allowing a pitch for tho boys, free of cost. In the discussion that followed, it was pointed out that, by granting the use of a pitch free of cost, a precedent would bo established. The position was compromised by granting the club two pitches for the season at acost of £4, with the stipulation that one pitch, was to be for the use of the boys. A recommendation by the Works Committee that hockey grounds Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4' be left this summer for hay gave rise to considerable disoussion, several councillors objecting to the reoreation ground being closed at any timo for farming, and contending that if the hockey grounds wero cropped for hay it would bo impossible to act a good tnrf v for playing purposes. Tho Works Committee adhored to tho recommendation, but on being put to the vote tho clause in the report referring to the matter was struck out on the casting vote of the Mayor...