PUBLIC HALL, TENUI.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4904, 9 December 1876, Page 3

PUBLIC HALL, TENUI.

A meeting of the committee for the erection of a public hall was held at Tenui on the 2nd inat. Present—Messrs. H. "Wishaw, J. Groves, A. McHutchon, J. C. Yorke, and B. Langdon (chairman). Subscriptions were announced to the extent of £136 ; but as the list was not considered complete, no plans of a building were entered into a 3 yet. Arrangements were made for the conveyance of the quarter-acre section to the public trustees ; the said section having been presented by Mr. A. Nicholls as a site for the building. A verbal intimatien from Mr. Burnett was received, to the effect that he was prepared to supply totara timber at Tenui, at 235. 6d. per 100 ft., and the secretary was instructed to inform Mr. Burnett that the committee would be glad to accept timber at that price, and hoped to forward a definite order at no distant date. , As a preliminary step in the affair, a resolution was passed affirming that the building shall be of totaia timber, with iron roof. A communication from Mr." A. D. Wilson, surveyor, stating his willingness to peg off and map the section, was received by the committee; and the next meeting was fixed for Saturday, the 16th inst., at 4 p.m.

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