BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Shannon News, 29 July 1927, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

FORTNIGHTLY MEETING. Th&vShannon Borough Council met in the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening, there being The Mayor (Mr. E. Butt) and CrsWH. Gunning, T. C. Thwaites, A. E. Hyde, R. Downes, Jas. Richardson, J. Curran, - iun. and J. Curran r sen. J POSTAL MATTERS. '.A letter was received from J. Varley Burns, stating that he would be glad if the Council would give the following ' their earnest consideration and make - representations to the Postmaster-Gen-eral on the suggestions submitted:—(i) In the course-of a few weeks the mail •contracts will be let for the Makerua * rural delivery. At the present time ■ a letter posted at Wellington on Monday afternon arrives here on Tuesday morning from Palmerston -North and is sent on to Makerua on .Wednesday morning. If this mail was to the Post Office, Shannon, on Monday night, Makerua would get the mail on Tuesday morning. (2) Again, if Monday night's mail from Wellington was sorted on Monday night it,would give Shannon, business people, a chance to answer same by Tuesday morning s mail. (3) Also, now we have a service running between Shannon and Foxton there is a possibility of getting the mail back to Shannon, Moutoa, Marotiri and Foxton, instead of via Levin, thereby not only saving time, but bringing business in the way or Shannon.— resolved to write to the Postmaster-General supporting Mr-. Burns's suggestions.: *• , ; SWIMMING BATHS. » With reference to. the swimming baths loan of £750, the Chairman of the Local Government Loans Board wrote stating' the Board had decided to refer back the application for the production of- completed plans and specification, pointing .-but that no details as f'6 ; .reinforcement in concrete are sho#*and if is considered that the batha, WV*ally "a* the, deeper end, are too shallow.—The Mayor said that the letter meant that the Council would have to produce proper plans and speci- - , .flcationi*. - Mr. Ronayne. is to be ask-. 'T%fc.&M "has a plan he would approve . ••■'ta-#%eforethe Loans Board. 'y - • - ■■'■■■ Sadies ' rest room. -. ■■■-' J Mx'\ A ! ; T." White, replying ta -a. letter from the Council in-regard'to J sehool children's abuse of the' Ladies' Rest Boom, stated-that the matter had been attended to. Should occasion arise, however, he asked that the Council supply him with the names of offenders and the time when the misdemeanour was commuted, for it might so happen that he had no jurisdiction over the Received; The Town Clerk stated he had given instructions to the .....JGatetofcer to watch for offenders. : REPORT.

The Ranger (J. Swindlehurst) re- • oorted the past -fortnight he.fi&d imppunded- one horse and two head of cattle.—Received.-. ' " FIRE BRIGADE EQUIPMENT, . Cr. Curran, jun., reporting on the '•-' visit of Mi'.'T. JVWitts, advisory sup- ' erintendenr of the United Fire Brigades ■-. . •' Association,- > amd Supt. Barnard, of the. Palmerston North Fire Brigade, . stated that .he. had entered into a contract with them to purchase the necessary equipment'. '*' The Mayor"said-he was pleased that •U something-definite had been done, and .The moved that Cr. Curran's action be tl approved. —Carried. His "Worship stated that the visitors ' had strongly advised that each year " *the Council''•should endeavour to link . --.up a portion of the borough with fourinch mains, by this means eventually having the whole borough served by four-inch mains. Continuing, he recoin- ?'; V mended that the Finance Committee ■'■■" -should meet and ascertain if any money would be available to do a portion of the work this year. He remarked that the suggestion by the Visitors had - been recommended by Cr. Downes.. when 1 the matter of forming the brigade was under discussion some time ago. ... It was resolyed. that a letter of thanks be forwarded to Messrs Watts and Barnard; Cr. Curran, jun., stating that, Supt. Barnard had offered to visit Shannon and >giVe them a start-off as soon as they, were ready.; The question, of/housing t-he reel and a place for drying the nose.was discussed. The - Clerk- ; was : instructed to write to-the .officiate of the Bank of New Zealand ;to;soe if: the use of the brick building in .their yard can be obtained for storing'the apparatus until such time as the Council can make other "arrangements. Any person who wishes to join the brigade is to be invited to attend a . meeting to be held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening. Enquiries #re- to be made regarding the purchase of an automatic fire alarm which can be driven by water power. -•'GENERAL.

In respect to the request from. the Borough roadman for one or two addi- ' tional rooms to his cottage, the Building Committeei.are to inspect and report to the next Council meeting. Mr Jones, senr., was engaged to look after the two plots opposite the Railway Station for three months for the sum of £2 10s. Cr. Thwaites asked that it be a re-

commendation to the Eoad Committee

. ,that the roadman be instructed to sweep , the roads on Monday mornings, instead of on Saturdays. On the latter day there were usually a large number of ■-'■'people i" town and this was when : most -of the rubbish collected. The . (F. Haley), who was present, stated .in reply to a question, that if this work was' done on Monday morn- • ing, a day wxrlflfr be lost with the teams, ■'■ whereas, Saturday 'being their half . holiday no time was last as the teams were not used on that day. —The matter was referred to the Eoad Committee.