DEPUTATION FROM KAIAPOI.
f Communicated.'] A deputation, consisting of Mr William Wilson, Councillors Blackwell and Milsom, and Messrs Eckersly, R. Wright, and H. Middleton, representing the ratepayers on the south side of the river at Kaiapoi, waited on the Provincial Government yesterday, for the purpose of laying before the Superintendent and executive their grievances with regard to the action taken by the Kaiapoi Borough Council, in the projected partial protection of the town from flood, and expenditure of the money voted by the Provincial Council. They were received by Mr Maude, who made a memorandum of their complaints, and promised to lay their case before the Executive the same afternoon. There is great complaint at Kaiapoi of the conduct of the Mayor, Mr Kerr, and the two councillors, Milsom and Blackwell, were very much astonished at finding, in the course of the interview -with Mr Maude, that the Mayor had had a correspondence with the Government of which there was no official record. We understand that it is proposed to call a town meeting at Kaiapoi to censure the Mayor,
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 156, 3 December 1874, Page 2
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