MIRAMAR BOROUGH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 47, 19 November 1919, Page 3

MIRAMAR BOROUGH

\. IJEETII-G THE COUNCIL. ■A meeting of the Miramnr Borough 'Council was heidlasf evening, the.Jln.vuy (Mr. B. Stone) lireHdinj. There were also Leseiit:-Couitcillors K. J. Bnnielt, J. Hicks, B. V. -Gardiner, K Collie, and His. M'V'icdr. . : ~..,•, Mr. C, il'l'arlane , ffrote asking it the council would be agreeable to lease the Plantation ltesrve in Kortli IMrairmr I lor grazing purposes. The council decided not to entertain the proposal. A letter -was received from the Bank of Ke«- Zealand stating that an addition,! advance of ilivO required by the council against unsold debentures {or XSOO under the-. Mirnmnr sewerage extension loiui nt iSOCO would lie jjrauted _ provided iho council passed a resolution in similar terms to that dated March 12, IM-4, a copy of such resolution signed by the Mayor, one councillor, end the Town Clerk to be handed to the bank. The .resolution .us-suggested was passed on the motion of tlie Jliiyor, The Department of Labour vrote forwarding plans and speeifi lations which tlio Department intends ..dopting. The dwellings,, it was slated, would be ilaced nt different distances from the front boundary to break a» unsijhtly stiaight line, and where cossiVie it was proposed lo group ihe dwellings in ;i b-rymeutal ' crescent or other form of front fences, '•lial.'ling tho tront of tho sections outside the front, fences to be (imainsuted in Bcme iniy. 'L'lio tramway returns for tic four week 3 endad "\ovenibir 10 showxl receipts £'i&> 10s-.,. and t!ie -profit for the period totalled £61 'is. In the period from .April 1 to Xovembsr 10'tho profit totalled .US Us. 10d. as against a loss of ..£3OO l=. lfld. in the same period last year and a loss of JMS3 is. Mil. in 1917.