MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
• ,• -* ~ _ -A special meeting of the' Council was 'held:on Wednesday evening; 7th January! Present—His .Worship the Mayor, Crsi Hjorring, Brookes, Wilson, Craig, Inder; and de Lantonr. " *
:i CORIIKSPOXDEXCE. —OCTWARD : 't , ,Copy ofjejtcr to Messrs. Gillies and' Street, for ihfor-f '-mation-asito the best formof or raisins' loan o£ £IOOO for the purpose of building! -proposed,.TowaHal!,,and. of inte-; rest required for the same.'"' s _Copy. of letter to Chairman of the Miners Association asking opinion as 'to the' * advisability' oj' vesting' the Cricket Ground in tlie Cprporation as" a permanent reserve' ' At *
inwatid : - Letter from the SecretaryaMiners Association, in reply to Town Clerk's, stating 1 that, before the depth'of * the'slndge channel is determined,'it will'be prejudicial to mining industry to vest the 'same in- the Corporation l as a permanent reserve. * ... Letter from Sub-Inspector^M'Cliiskcy, in reply to Town Clerk's, recommending Constable Smith for the office of Inspector of Nuisances. r Letter from the manager of the Homeward Bound Company, asking for three months farther tinie,' and stating they would 'b"e able 5 by that time: to> -make a proper finish of the road to Presbyterian Church. - ■ ' j j ' J, i<
Letter froru MessrsrGillies and Street, intreply to Town' Clerk's stating that as soon .as the. Corporation have made the 'necessary arrangements i'oriborrowing money under the provisions of the Municipal Borrowing Act, they will have no .diffieultyjinlisupplying/jthejjGorporationwith the amount required, at_'7 per cent, interest. ' "" Telegram from the Mayor oft Dunedin, to the Mayor ol'Naseby, soliciting aid on behalf of the sufferers by the wreck ofthe ship Surat. " , . . 'inspector of nuisances. . Moved by Ci - . Wilson, seconded,,by Civ Ckaig, aiub carne'd—That 'the,reeommendalionsof Sub-Inspector M'Cluskey, of Constable- W. H. Smith for the office of Inspector >of Nuisanm, be approved of: 'the appointment to commence Tr'otn Ist January inst.,'at the'salary fixed —£lo per annum. ' - - HOMEWAKD BOUND COMPACT.
Moved by Cr. CkaTg, seconded by .Cr. WiisoN;-an r d-*lok'—" That the Public Works-Comrnitcee report upon the application made for extension-of time to the next meeting.".; ; ; ; Amendment by- Cr.- db Lautoub, seconiledbyGr.lNDEß,"and'carried—"That the Homeward—Bound Company be granted .six ;weeks, extension of time, al'cer which the ( strict letter of the agreement will "require' to be abided'by, for making up the road to Presbyterian Church." ~ " T
WRECK OF THE STTRAT. ''Moved'by'Cr'. Inder; secbnded s by Gr. Hjohring, and carried—'"That subscrip-tion-lists be at once opened and'circulated to aid -the-effort now being; made through the' Province'to assist* the.shipwrecked immigrants by the Surat.' £ ELECTION OF-TOWN-CLER&'AND COILEC- "" TOR. 1 Two applications "only ,were'sent'in in answer to advertisement in ' Mount Ida -Chronicle 1 - of 26th December last. I BalloL'was taken, and resulted-in,the Unanimous re-election of Mr.'George Clarke tb the offices., f ' SPECIAL'MEETING I .' *' ' - ' ■
The Town Clerk" was directed to .summon a special rneoting-for the 14thinst., consider ways and means for,contracting a loan for building proposed Town Hall. - ~ ;
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 254, 16 January 1874, Page 2
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460MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 254, 16 January 1874, Page 2
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