Feilding Borough Council

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 13, 11 July 1885, Page 2

Feilding Borough Council

An ordinary meeting of the Council wub held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening evening litst. Present — Councillors Fowles, Bishop, Eade, Richardson, Nicholas, Won* fold, and Bartholomew. Cr Fowles was voted to the chair. - The minutes of the previous ordinary meeting were read and confirmed; The monthly return of the Borough poundkeeper was read, showing the number of animals impounded to have been 49, amount received for poundages, &c, £4 ls 6d, and amount to hand . over to the Council £3 12s. A return of special poundages and sales was also read, showing the receipts to have been £48s6d, the expenditure £3 138, and the amount due to the Council 15s 6d. '.A The monthly report of the Finance Committee was read, recommending the payment of accounts amounting to £50 14s 10. -V ..'., : It was resolved that the amount of Ids being' proportion, of charge for advertising re Licensing Committee be paid, and that the report of the Finance Committee be adopted. Mr A. J. Rawson again sent in his account for £10 10s for preparing plans for the Kiwitea stream protective works, stating that he should be compelled to place the; matter in the hands of his solicitor if not paid at once. A conversation followed as to the liability of the Council in the mattcrj the general feeling being that - the Council was not liable, and it was agreed that the matter stand over till : a fuller meeting of the Council. J A letter was read from Mr F. van Stunner, secretary of the "New Zealand Railway Reform League," accompanied with sheets of a petition to Parliament on the matter as adopted at a public meeting in Waikato. The documents had been forwarded to the Manchester Road Board, nndl by them handed to the Town Clerk* Nothing was done in the matter by the Council. The plans and specifications of the new publio pound, as prepared by Mr Bray, were laid upon, the table, and were briefly discussed together with the subject of the proposed site for the pound. Cr Nicholas proposed, and Cr Fowles seconded, That tenders be at once called for the ereotion 'of the pound in accordance with plans now on the table, tenders to be sent in to the Borough Council office fourteen days from present date. — Carried. A ' There being no other business the Counoil then adjourned. A -