Feilding Borough Council

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 148, 30 May 1885, Page 2

Feilding Borough Council

An ordinary meeting of the Council was hold in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening last. Present — Councillors Goodbehere, Bartholomew, r Bishop, Worsfold, Thompson, Fowles, i Eichardson, and Nicholas, i In the absence of the Mayor Cr Goodbehere occupied the chair. ; The minutes of the previous ordinary ' meeting were read and confirmed. T The following correspondence was 1 also read:— The Mayor, apologising for his unavoidable absence, and, ajU \ vising that as there had been no nominations for auditors, probably i from the remuneration offered being* i too small, the matter of appointing auditors might well stand over' as | there was a strong probability of the ■ auditing being done under the hew 1 local government system, by a Go-£r 1 vernment official, free of expense to the Borough. The letter further laid no offers for a pound complied with the conditions except that of Mr Hammond, and advised the Conncfl not to come to a final decision, but to appoint a committee to consider the matter. The letter also offered a site from the E. and C. A. Corporation at a nominal rent. Mr Beaufort, accepting the offer of the Council. to find firing, lights, ftc., for the sum of £10 a year. Report of the Inspector of Nuisances, being on the whole satisfactory. Mr Edmund Goodbehere, calling attention to the entrance to hia section No. 41 in Kimboftdn road, which, by the formation, had, been rendered impracticable, and asking for assistance in the matter. - ... The letter stated that in similar eases the Council had put in culverts and metalled up to them, the property owners supplying the timber. Attention was also drawn to the fact thai the contractors for the formation of the road had taken possession of the timber of the bridge ever the late drain in front of said property, fir Tomlinson, Clerk of the Sandon and Carnarvon Boad Board, with copy of resolution to the effect that the Board had improved Swainson's Buahro*4 sufficiently for light traffic, and re^» questing the Council to do something to their portion of the road, so as to enable settlers to get toFeilding with-* out trespassing on private property. Report of the Public Works Committee re tenders for a site for a pound, which they deemed unsatisfactory; and recommending the appointment' of a* Ranger and Poundkeeper; and the question of a site for a pound io be left in the hands of a committee consisting of the Mayor and Crs Nicholas and Fowles. Cr Nicholas moved, and Cr Fowles seconded, That the report of the Public Works Committee be adopted, and that the Committee recommended by that report have full power to appoint a Poundkeeper and Ranger and to select a site for a pound upon such terms as they think desirable. Cr Thompson thought the Council would hardly be prepared to hand the matter over to a Committee of three, and that the whole Council should have the final voice in "i«ofog such an important arrangement; Cr Nicholas urged that something definite be done in the matter at once,, whether by the Committee, or by the whole Council. He did not care which, and if it would please Cr Thompson they might take his (the speaker's) name off the Committee, or leave the matter to Cr Thompson altogether. CrThompsbn objected to the remarks of Cr Nicholas as personal' and not pertinent, and thought he should not be allowed to make them. Cr Thompson then moved, : and Or Bishop seconded, as an amendment, That the report of the Public Works Committee be adopted, subject te the Committee therein recommended reporting to the Council lief ore finally deciding on the appointment of Poundkeeper and Ranger and the selection of a site for a pound. Crs Nicholas and Goodbehere ob jected to the amendment in its entirety. A division was called for, when two voted lor and six against the amendment. The original motion was then put and carried. - . The matter referred to in the letter from the Sandon and Onrnarvon Road Board was then discussed. , Cr Thompson thought it an important matter, and one which affected the interests of the trade in Feilding. Cr Goodbehere moved, and Cr Nicholas seconded, That the Town Clerk acknowledge the receipt of the letter from the Clerk of theSandon and Carnarvon Road Board, and inform him that the Council haVeViio power enabling them to comply with the request, but they will consider the matter when they are in funds. — Carried. :' - "■'■ i. The application of Mr E. Goodbehere re an approach to his property in Kimbolton road was then considered, and after discussion it was resolved, That the Public Works Committee be requested to attend to the matter.! It was further resolved, in this connection, That the Town Clerk be instructed to request Messrs Aitken &

Jackmaajto : replace the gravel they removed from near Warwick street bridge, and also to replace the timber taken from the Kimbolton road opposite section 41. Fowles drew attention to four Tolumes of old books in the library, two, being "Clarendon's History of the Rebellion," and the ©ther two "/Burnett's History of his own time,' and as they were' practically valueless to readers generally, and £1 was offered for them, he recommended that they be sold towards the purchase of more useful volumes^ •-After a conversation on the matter, a ballot was taken, with the result that three ' Councillors were for the •ale of .the books and five against. The Council then adjourned. j

They wait for father out in the cold, Out in the cold. Out of the bar-room into the cold, Money all gone and manh.od sold; The poor man, wasted an.' 1 worn with sin, Bre-tsted the storm with quivering chin. Only the storm, with its spectres, was out, iAnd the eddying slow that went whirling about ; Thousands were happy in the huraefold, i\or thought of the drunken out in the cold, Out in the cold. Tfie rumseller sat by bis fire that ni»ht, Smoking; his pipe by his warm fire-li-ht, And he clapped bis hands in rollicking glee : " The wind and the storm are nothing to me ; I've plenty of coal in my cellar," said be ; ••My children are hearty, nnd warm, and well fed;" But his children were warmed by the poor man's {,old — Only the wind beard those moans in the cold, Out in the cold. And when the morn broke in the twilight gray. In a white sheet of snow the poor man lav, And this was the verdict the coroner gave : " Frozen to death and no one to save." Th* wife and the children wept alone, But the traffic is king and sits on a throne. And who are the young and who are the old, That next may go forth to die in the cold ? Out in the cold