Foxton Borough Council.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 271, 4 June 1889, Page 2

Foxton Borough Council.

J # l..^^,- — • "The" usual monthly meeting 61 tKeT Borough Council was^hejkl at the Li t>rai ; y buildings on Monday, 3rd June' at' 2 p.m... Present - The :Mayor, Crs Nye, Oook, McMillan, andFurrie. ■■.'■..' , The minutes of the past ordinary ' and special meetings were read and confirmed. ..'.'. The inward correspondence was "read. -Erpm P.. Hennessy and H. Stephens re holes in Avenue road. From Captain Borrenson re admittance .of his mate into the Wanganui hospital. •■-••■■■ .. Action o(. the Mayor approved of. The following .. resolutions ; wer e ' Tljat the Mayor 'and Cr MoMillan be authcised ttf sign'and seal lease of ferry hou-e to lift 1 Hillary also the Ferry lease to Thomas Bowe. That a general rate of fifteen pence in the pound sterling for the year commencing Ist day of April 1889 and ending ...the. %isi 'MaVch ' 1890 upon the rateable, value of all the properties within the Foxton Bprbugh Council district under the rating act 1876, Ipie now levied, &uoh* rate to become due and payable on the 4th day of June 1889 in one instalment at the office ot the jfoxton Borough Council. . That a Library rate of one penny in *the pound sterling for the -year commenciag Ist day of April 1889 and ending the 81st day of March 1890 upon the rateable value of all .the properties within the Foxton Borough Council district under: the rating act 1876 be now levied. Such rate to become due and payable on the 4th day "of June 1889 in one in stalment at the office of thte Foxton Borough Council. That B.* Spehnan be paid the sum of £5 for cutting through sand hill and foriMilg road in part of Nye street. •..'.'. That.notice be given that at a special meeting of this Council to beheld July Ist at 2.80 p.m.- a reso lution be proposed that a bylaw be made taxing. all carts p'ying for hire within . the limits of this. Borough. That in reply to letter of Messrs Baker add others; especting en--ofoaohmtnt of gora^'-Gborge Tras k be employed to report upon gorse within thd Borough giving particulars bf Quantity of < gorse in each street add road report to be in July Ist nexW. . . ■ That the clerk write to keepers of the Various lodging* houses, billiard tables and public halls, informing tlffem of .. the . various amounts of license fees, due by ; th^em .'to this. Borough Council under existing by laws. ( That On McMillan and Furrie

sign rate book on behalf ojv this Council. •:.:•■• ,'y/v' ] accounts passHjj ( ..',.-;'.. | C. Spring, £7 Ss 6djH.Srad- ' cock, £3 10; T. Gibson, £4.^s4d; J Sullivan, £6 15s; G. Tra»i, £9 9s; Herad, £13 15s.