KARORI BOROUGH AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 214, 29 May 1918, Page 8

KARORI BOROUGH AFFAIRS

THE CAI! MILEAGE TROUBLE. The Mayor (Mr. 11. G. H. Burn) presid. Ed over tile ordinary meeting of the Karon Borough Council held Inst evening. There were present Councillors W. Skegg, 11. L. Tingcy, J. Mackenzie, 11. T. Pell, H. li. Drydcn, W. G. lirndnock, and A. Hamilton. Mrs. J. Wilcox wrote asking if tho council would remove the goKe and capeweed on the frontage of her section in Duthio Street. It was resolved to inform her that the council could not tako ac. tion in the matter, and that sho was liable to have tho work done for half thft width of tho roadway. A letter was received from tho City Council with respect to the land at Kf« rori purchased by tho city in order to extend the cemetery, asking the Karori Council whether it would be prepared to appoint a sub-committee to meet a similar eommitleo from tho City Council to promote joint legislation dealing with the use of the land and defining the portion to be used for cemetery purposes for recreation ground or for other civic requirements. It was decided to eend t.lio letter to the Borough Solicitor, requesting him to roply that the Karori Council could not. see its way to comply with tho request of the City Council. Tho acting town clerk wrote intimating that an increase in tho car mileage of one halfpenny would como into operation as from June 1. The Mayor said Karori was in tho samo position a?; Minimal', and probably they would have to "grin and bear it.'" He pointed out that the increase of Id. would mean an additional .£220. The city lost .£BS lis. 3d., nnd to recover that amount it was intended to squeeze Karori for .C 220. They were going to mnlte .£135 out of tho borough. It was an unjust tiling. In July last the rati! was increased by a halfpenny, nnd before, tho year is up another halfpenny is added. When Mr. 'Richardson was malinger of the tramway the borough paid Is. oar mileage, and on June 1 the rale would be Is. 2d. The borough could be compared to a lemon, and it was being squeezed by the Wellington City Council. Another speaker suggested that this was probably a, "hwk-hander'' for the recent legal proceedings in connection with the cemetery, in which the city was defeated. It was decided to refer the letter to the Tramway Committee.

I Last spring'JLr. J. Marshall, president ■of the \Vtiliiiglon Provincial farmers' ' Union, offered a cup for a wheat-grow-ing competition, in order to help to on- ■ courage the growing of wheat so that, by 1 comparing methods of cultivation, l'anuI ers might be able to learn which was ' the most successful methud. Owing to I the blight in the crops, some ul' those i who entered dropped out when they saw their crops going to pieces, aiul no very high yieids were recorded. Mr. W. li. E. Beckett, of Jlarton, proved the winner, with 47 bushels to tho acre. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly stock Eale at the Jlillers lload yards, Damiovirke, on Friday. There was a good yarding of both sheep and cattlc. but on account of the rough weather, bidding was inclined to be dull, prices in many cases not reaching tile reserves. Quotations: 2-tooth wethers, 315.; B.F. hoi!gets, 17b. 9d.; woolly hoggets, 12s. 2d.; shorn hoggets, Us. 4d.; aged ewcß, low condition, Bs. Sd.; store cows, X 4 to £5.