BOROUGH COUNCIL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 464, 23 February 1933, Page 6

BOROUGH COUNCIL

POSSESSION OF BAND INSTRUMENTS UNDER DISCUSSION. ROUTINE BUSINESS. The following- were present at the usual meeting of the Opotiki Borough Council on Tuesday evening: Crs. J. T. Thompson (Mayor), T. Hitchins, H. M. Budd, S. Shalfoon, F. J. Short, J. Maine, J. Tabb, J. Moody. It was resolved to support a remit from the Newmarket Borough Council to the Municipal Conference that boroughs with a population of less than 6,000 should be represented on the executive, of that body. .The bandmaster wrote advising the whereabouts of the various band instruments which the borough had instructed to be recalled. The town clerk advised that Mr. C. Pipe, chairman of the band committee was holding all the new instruments which had been purchased for the band as he held that these instruments had not been purchased by the Borough Council. Cr. Tabb contended that the instruments belong-ed to the public of Opotiki and should therefore be in the custody of the borough council. He undertook to collect the instruments from Mr. Pipe himself and the council immediately resolved that the matter be left in the hands of Cr. Tabb with power to act. The question of procuring a small tar-spraying pump was left in the Jiands of the Mayor, Cr. Hitchins and Cr. Short with power to -act. Crs. Hitchins, Shalfoon and Moody wero appointed as a committee to consider the question of outstanding rates. \