BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 35, 9 July 1885, Page 2

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

".;, j TUBSDAY' NIGBHV (Continuation of) Report.); ,■;;■'-'.■/•■ The questida of payment of Hill's account : for supervising the construction of *Andrew..Young-stjreet,. was generally.didcussed at Tuesday hight's'meeting of the. Council. Messrs Park and Abrahams of the Finance. Committee are again to the front, and '-will, no doubt, oyer . this .affair, make themselves quite as popular as they did m connection; with the election expense account of Mr Fentpn. ■' ' Mlt would appear, that tho amount of -this 'account had been received from Mr A. 'Young,] but- yetj i these " Oouncjlldrg" vwould not,;pay ? HilL r They believed that the work',wa« done Jjy Hill during,, .the vtime he wa!s employed by the Council and should not be paid extra for it. ' '^ : I Crßentley^ stated that he hadj frequently's'een Hill at the place during the dinner 11611* and at's o'clock in' ••the even-' ing,; and he believed that it was done, m overtime^ /He,;wbuld propose that Hill be paid. T - Cir Hawkins seconded this resolution. Cr West also believed that the Council had been under the impression that the i work was ; to have v been done m overtime, and charged for' accordingly. _ "" ■ :: ■ - ; .v.The Mayor said that if the money had bVeri c rec&ved : front* Mr A. 1 - .Young -V he ; shoijld think Hill was entited to receive it. jHe could see. no .object m withqlding payment. *'' v; '"' : ' ■'■ '- a a ;'" 'J „>>£§ ■"-■ s Crs Park and Abrahams at this juncture: gol^exce.edmgly v? frightened, and almostiiiramtaneous^^ their objection and pass the account at oncd. ' . ..-^tv/"- .- r^.i, : '.,- „. .',,' . t\. CV King, however, stilt'objectied, /l and proposed as' an amendment—That the jpa,atter belh^ld^Y^ri tili=;a report:; be re-. .ceived from Hill. " , ' ' ' ' *■*- f ' Cr Park evidently penitant that he had again made himself obnoxious, gladly seconded the amendment, which was carriedi the Mayor giving his casting vote m fayour. '-V--' ' i .• , The Mayor next requested the Clerk to pfroduceiarCiertain telegram. he hid received from *the' lnsurance Department, which was read. ! ;; The Mayor further went on ..to-;, say JtKili a certain paper Kaa^rftngrlyireporti' ed a misleading and entirely ifatse'/state-; tnent' 'td-theveffoblj'thatith'ft Insurance Department had made a very superior loan offer Wellington; Harbo.r Board. Enquiries had been made and it was found that no such offer had been made; nothing beyond a casual conversatipnjiaving, taken place amons[st f the iineilifiers 'of' me Board. His'reason ' ! for ■ refusing to this m^tter^ was that this rewhich had beißif f circulated might nave the effect of causing people to believe that his (the mayor's) remarks at the last mep^ingijias'.'tOitheiiexceptignajlv good terms made ? with "the Insurance Department, was all. blow. However, he was very glad to be . able to contra•dictj -^He °istalemen^ m ! a^ 3^uid'^in ; which there' wals sr ndt- the- slightest truth. „;.■■;. _ Cr West pointed out to the Cifraricil the-:' bad state of repair m which the pound gates wer^- and through which a good deal oftees had, he believed, been lost to the Council. ; Cr King also remarked on the generalj iv V \c -^iij^a»^es§l^i 'to'liaye necessary 're-^ pairs ex^cutedJ,' 1 ' "." \'y':' ; : /V Cr :Ab'rWharnß suggested -that : jfche ". footpaths through the Square should be metalled. . . .. 1 . . r The Mayor thought there were miles of pathway which might, be attended t«j before this; ■ • '■ ! l " . ' ' Cr Larcomb moved that the; pathways through the i Square sHd'tild be permanently formed'and metalled and the f treeß planted put. — Carried.Cr T. King asked if anything hadbeen heard from the Government re the improvements to the Palmerston railway •statton. «,, Vf ,i . v ..,f'.. t .. ;;, . ..-• -j-'r The .inforriied Cr. King jiat sinc^ he had ■returned 'from Wellingtan, no commuintfcHtion h'sld'bperi ; fec'eived' from tHe Go'vernmentibut that he believeTd the jitnproVemenis : would be proceeded ' withj at an early date. , • ■■■ iy Cr Grace mo^yed a resolution to. , the effect that, , pnW of .the membera; of the Pubjio Works Committee representing No. -3 Ward should retire, arid allow ! 6'ne to be elected to represent No. 4 Ward. >l! Cr Hiitcheson seconded the 'proposition,^., ':■-' :.•'■•■ -: T iV-'.h::.,,r. •;■■ ,-.-•. Cr Hawkins supported the proposition! He thought that m fairness one of the Council m that Ward should be. represented in 1 -the "Works Committee; Gy Bentley and; Abrahams opposed the motion.,; > ;; , , -;->i;--f ; > Cr Bentley thought , the. ; Pub,lio<iV?oiiks. , Committe was a one and consisted, of men who were selected for their capa- : bilities'tb act m the^^ position' iti t which ; thev xver'e-plAced'.' ' ' '- Cb? West and T. King, also sprtke m opposition to any change being made. The motion \vas then putto the meotinjr and lost: A ' -'" '- " ' * The Council then adjourned.