KYEBURN DIGGINGS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 369, 31 March 1876, Page 3

KYEBURN DIGGINGS.

i PUBLIC MEETING. March 25th. Mr. J. Weight took the chair, and said that the meeting was called to hear the report and receive the resignation of the Progress Committee, and to elect a new Committee for the ensuing twelvemonths. The following report was then read: — At a public meeting, called on the 26th of March last, to consider tho best meana of bringing the requirements of this part of the district under the notice of the Government, it was decided that a Progress Committee, consisting of five members, be elected, whose duty it would be to look after the public interests of Kyeburn Diggings generally, but chiefly to get, if possible, a traffic bridge over German Creek, and some footbridgeß over the river. Your Committee, on being elected, lost no time in having a memorial forwarded to the Secretary for Works to have a sum of money placed on the Estimates for the erection of a traffic bridge, which together with two sums of £SO each for footbridges over the river, were passed by the Provincial Council. After repeated applications to the Government to have these sums expended, tendeis were called for the traffic bridge, which is now finished. With regard to the footbridges we have not been quite bo successful, though, in rieply to a letter recently forwarded to the Superintendent urging their immediate construction, we are informed that instructions have been given to the Provincial Engineer to have them gone on with at his earliest convenience, so that the Committee to be elected to-night will have little (if any) trouble in getting them erected. Another matter deserving notice is the removal of the post office. You are all aware that a great deal of dissatisfaction existed for a considerable time with the careless manner in which it was conducted; and, though a good deal of warm feeling was created when the Committee took the matter up, wo feel sure that the vrry decided improvements resulting from its removal will have convinced even those who so strongly opposed it that the Committee were quite justified in taking the course they did. While' your Copimittee feel great pleasure

in the amount of success that has attended their efforts, they are still sensible that a great deal remains to be done, and trust their successors—who will not labor under the disadvantage of making a beginning, as we have done—will at the end of next year be able to give a'still better account of their stewardship. _Your Committee cannot, close their report without returning their sincere thanks toboth our district M.P.O.'b for the very able and willing assistance we have at all times received from them. We now tender our resignations. J. F. Christian, Chairman. J; H. Schoen, Secretary. The report having been adopted, and a vote of thanks accorded the Committee, it wa3 resolved to publish the report in the ' Chronicle.' There being a. very poor attendance at the meeting, it was decided to call a meeting on the Ist of April, and to postpone the election of the new Committee till then. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman the meeting broke up.