KARORI BOROUGH

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10279, 14 May 1919, Page 6

KARORI BOROUGH

MEETING OF COUNCIL.

Last evening the Karori Borough Council held its first business meeting since the election. The following wore present: The .Mayor (Mr B. G. H. Burn), and Councillors J. Caughley, J. Burns, L: G. Porter, T. A. Munt, F. F. Laurenson, E. Harrison, J. C. Fulton, and R. L. Tingey. It was decided to grant the use of the council room to the Karori branch of the Women's National .Reserve for the purpose of forming nursing classes. . ,

A letter was received from the Wellington' Central Chamber of Commerce, stating that now the war was over, tho chamber would resume its practice of each year calling together in conference representatives of local bodies and the chambers of commerce in the Wellington province to discuss matters of commercial interest. On the invitation of the chamber, the Mayor was appointed to represent the council at the conference. The Collingwood County Council wrote asking for the assistance of the Karori Council in calling for an investigation of the possibility of the Puponga coal measures. The circular stated that the Puponga ,coal measures were the best-known coal deposits in the vicinity of the ports around Cook Strait. s

A circular letter from the Runanga Borough Council was received asking for support and co-operation in urging the Government to proceed expeditiously with the development of the new coal seams lately discovered and prospected at the Nine-mile Bluff near Runanga.—lt was resolved to support the proposal.