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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 285, 19 June 1917, Page 2

OTAHUHU

[The.Otahuhn Agent for " The Times*" is Mr Bathe, from whom copies of the paper mav be ordered. Mr Bathe is also authorised to receive advts. and printine orders on our behalf.) OTAHUHU BOROUGH COUNCIL Business, as under, was transacted at last Thursday's meeting of the Borough Council in addition to that reported in onr Friday's issue, viz : ESTIMATES AND HATES

Estimates for the current year's expenditure were submitted by the Legal and Finance Committee as follows: On the General Account the expenditure was set forth at £2433 ss, made up of £230 for street lighting, £2ll .-is for Otahuhu Park, £272 for Town Clerk and Assistant, £l5O for Bank charges and Interest, £360 for Sanitary service, £364 for labour on streets (two men), £l5O for extra labour, and £350 for teams, labour and materials, £75 for Government audit and incidental expenses, £SO for printing, advertising, and office expenses, £SO for postages and petty cash, £4O for legal expenses, £25 each for Fire Brigade and Band subsidies, £2O for pound and dog registration, £2O for accident and other insurances, and £ll for telephone.— Estimated receipts were General rate of one and nine-sixteenths of a Id in the £ £1651 13s 3d and Sanitation fees at £1 £340, licenses £250, Government subsidy £lB7 10s, waterworks refund Clerk's salary £75, rents £6O, sundry recoveries £25, sanitation charges £2O, cemetery account refund Ctark's salary £5, ten per cent penalty £5, making a total of £2619 3s 3d, or an estimated balance of £lB5 18s 3d. On the Waterworks Account the estimated expenditure was scheduled at £1167 9s lid, made up of debit balance March 31st £262 9s lid, wages £450, meters £IOO, royalty £l5O, pipes £7O, etc, and the receipts, including nonconsumers (one288ths of a Id in the £) £57, meter hire £175, 520 consumers at 10s £260, extraordinary supply £390, railway station £2OO, Westfield works £llO, total £1260 10s 3d, leaving an available balance of £93 os9d.

A special rate of one and ninesixteenths of a Id was set out to produce £1651 13s 3d to meet £1633 9s I<l required on loans accounts, leaving a credit balance of £lB 3s lid, and for £328 the Hospital Board's levy a rate of five-sixteenths of a Id was estimated to produce £330.

The Mayor explained that it was proposed to strike a general rate of one and nine sixteenths of a Id in the £ on the unimproved values of the borough, a Hospital rate of 5-lGths of a penny, and a special interest rate of 1 9-16ths of a penny The water rate (ordinary supply"} would only be 1-H4tln of a Id with a minimum charge of 10s per annum, while the charge to nonconsumeri would be l-288ths of Id with a minimum charge of 5s per annum His Worship thought it was gratifying to know that they were not going to increase the rate, the amount collectable indeed being £66 Is id less than last year. He formally proposed the adoption of the estimates.

Cr Field, rising before the motion was put, moved as an amendment that the question of the estimates be hold over for a spocial meeting. He said the Council jumped to the conclusion that the proposals came from the Finance Committee but they did not as they were suggestions from the Town Clerk. Continuing, Cr Field said he quite appreciated His Worship's pi. a for urgency in dealing with the estimates but he contended they required time to consider them. In that connection, too, last year's balance sheet should be considered as otherwise he failed to see how it was possible to deal with tho estim «tes for the current year as they should. Cr Field urged that last year's balance sheet should he formally discussed and the estimates for the current ynr drawn up as a result of their study of last year's proceedings. For that reason he contended that a special meeting should be he'd to discuss the estimates and balance sheet

The Mayor explained that th estimates did not come from the Town Clerk but had been before the Finance Committee. He did not think the remarks of Cr Fi«ld were in order.

Cr Stringer enquired if th?re would be any discussion on hut ye n's balance sheet.

The Mayor pointed out that the balance sheet had been adopted Cr Stinger, in s;conding the amendment, said he was in favour of a special meeting because when the balance sheet was brought up it w.s passed on the understanding, as promis ;d by the Mayor, that it would be discussed.

The Mayor said he did not remember the pronrso. On the amendment being pu* to the meeting it was lost, Cr? Fio'd and Stringer alone voting for it Tin Mayor's motion that the estim as submitted be adopted was then agreed to and His Wo ship gave notion that at the meeting to be hel I on July sth ho would propose a resolution striking the rates as suggested in tho estimates. OOLV AVENUE A petition was presented from five ratepayers drawing attention tj the bad state of the road at tho corner of Go!* Avenue and M in gore road. Cr Moffitt explained that a drain was laid across Wolf Avenue by the lit" council and that later on ;i ditch was tilled in with the result that the drain had no outlet. i'ho complaint was referred to the i Works Committee. S'OllIA 1 OH KOOTI'ATIH Arising out of a request by Mr Lawson foi scoria, Cr Brady expressed the opinion that it was not usnl for scoria to bo supplied i i the c s i of new dwellings If the prac'ice to supply scoria were continued thrae or four hundred loads might be re .|uired and that would entail much expenditure. The Mayor considered that where there was no defined footpa'h the j ratepayers were entitled to a 'old o' scorii mo that they could go fro n their gateway to the middle of the | road dean shod.

Cr Field thought that if any ratepayers deserved a load of scoria they were the old settlers who had paid rates for twenty years. The Mayor said it was all very well for those who lived in up-to-date streets to complain about the granting of 9coria but where ratepayers lived, as he did, in a by-road they were entitled to a dry path to the middle of the road.

The application was referred to the Works Committee with power to act. CEMETERY RESERVE The General Purpose Committee recommended that the whole of the Cemetery Reserve fence should be renewed, using up as much of the old material as was suitable. The Committee did not recommend that the work should be let by contract but suggested that it should be done by day labour and that Mr Embling should be employed to do it with anothej suitable man. Cr Brady expressed the opinion that the fencing should be done by tender.

Cr Clements said that after carefully considering the matter the Committee thought it wise that it was a case where the work should be done by day labour. A resolution moved by Cr Brady that tenders should be called for the work was lost and the Committee's report was adopted.

TRAGEDY AT PENROSE. MAN GORED TO DEATH. An an early hour yesterday (Monday ) morning information was received by the Otahuhu police that the dead body of a man had been discovered in a paddock at Penrose. Sergeant Harvey and Mounted Constable Wade quickly proceeded to the spot and found ths body to be tint of Elwin John GUnville, wh> was employed as a farm hand on Mrs Bailey's estate at Penrose. An inquest on the body was held yesterday afternoon at Otahuhu by Mr A Harris (District Coroner), Sergeant Harvey conducting the proceedings on behalf of the police. George Henry Kay identified the body as that of his late brother-in-law, Edwin John R. Glanville, who was a single man, 44 years of age. Deceased had been employed by Mrs Bailey, of Penrose, and had attended to the cattle on the estate. Witness further stated that he list saw deceased on Sunday at 4.15 pa, when deceased visited him and left to return to the farm.

James E. S. Bailey, solicitor, residing at Penrose, deposed that deceased had been employed on his mother's farm at Penrose for many years. He was in charge of the cattle on the farm. James Golian was also employed on the farm and on the previous (Monday) morning at about 7 am Golian came to witness and informed him that he had sean the body of Edwin Glanville lying in the piddock. He (witness) immediately went to the spot and covered up the body and then sent for the Otahuhu police, who arrived about 8 am. Witness informed the Cjroner that deceased's du*ies would take him amongst the cattle. He added that there were six cows and one young.. Jersey bull eighte9n-months-old in the paddock and when he saw the body the cattle were standing near it, the piddock being cut up around the boly for about twenty yarls Deceased was lying on his right side and his clothes were very much disarranged. In reply to a question by the Coroner witness said that deceased ■lid not come in to tea on Sunday night but a 9 he had many friends in the district whom he visited on Sundays witaess did not think it strange that he did not put in an appearance Witness informed the Coroner that he had been told that the bull had chased someone previously hut did not think there was anything in the statement. Had he known the bull was dangerous he would have parted with it

James Gollai spoke as to his discovery of the body. He saw hoof tracks close to the body and for about half a chain further on

In reply to a questi »n by Sergeant Harvey, witne-s .-t ite I that he had been chased by tins bull for about fifty yards some six mondu ago but he hid be.m frequently in th-» paddock since then and the bull had not att mpted to harm him. Witnea* also s lid that he hid sor-n d cess *d hading the bull on many ••CMsi-n*. He had told deceased that the bull hal chased him but deceased t.-0.-ilec' the nn't r as a j ke ami said it was only play. J>r Peter McDonald, of Ota'iuhu, deposed to having examined the body at the farm The «< were external muks of go iug by some animal. Ho had conducted a post mortem and thera were uo i.f ill health. He was sho vn the bull that was in the pad lock where deceased was found an I was of the opinion that the wouuds on the body could have bee;i caused by the animal. He considered that death had be<»n caused by shock fnm injuries received before death. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased met his death through being gored by the horns of some animal.

FOOTBALL OTAH'THU v PONSOXBY On the N T ') 1 grmnd last Siturday Otahaliu, under League rules, met an 1 dt'f-'Ht-il Ponsonby by a larje ma'gin, 25 points to 2 Tnegiunn in thefi-st half a?.Hum»d ! a give an i take s <rt of aspect, h ilf I time s.mnding wi.Ji ill • visitors leulI in" by 2—o. On r. S'iming Otahuhu made a on 9 horse race of it, piling up the score of 25 and only bad kicking prevented that score being doubled. At timej some very fine football was played. In scrummage work the local team almost always got possession of the ball cwing to good work by the half Keenan win deserves special mention. He is a very valuable asset to the team, and assisted by his brother, A. Keenan, made many openings which usually resulted in a score. J. Robinson is also worthy of his place in the team. Eight through the contest he was chasing up a score. In the first half he took a pot shot at the goal and his quickness of decision almost resulted in evening up the scores, but the kick failed by iuchea

only. /His enthusiasm, however, was not damped and ere the match ended with some brilliant work he was at last rewarded.

It would be hard to report on this team without mentioning each individual player. P. Madigan played a hard game, assisted by Jeffries, Murray, Thompson and Glynn, the latter player, after hard work, adding two to the score. P. Wells, Otahuhu's full back, played a level headed game. He was seldom pressed, but when he was he acquitted himself to great advantage. The only line proving weak in any respect was the three-quarter. Next Saturday, at Victoria Park, Otahuhu meet City, and as neither team have been beaten a haid match is anticipated. If Otahuhu play up to form, and abolish selfish individual play then there is no reason to doubt the issue of the much talked of contest.

As showing the amount of time required to be devoted by members to Borough Council work it is interesting to chronicle a statement made by CrMoffitt at last Thursday's meeting that during the week then in progress he had spent twelve hours in connection with roading matters.

The effect of the charges to consumers to be made for water as revised by the Borough Council are that the uniform minimum figure to be paid will be 10s as against 15s last year. On the total of rates struck there is a reduction of onesixteenths of a penny in the £. Owing to the number of players continually leaving for camp it has been decided to withdraw the Otahuhu Senior Football Team from this season's competition, leaving only the fourth and fifth grades to uphold the honour of Otahuhu in the football arena.