TOWN BOARD.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 47, 21 April 1863, Page 2

TOWN BOARD.

RESIGNATION OF MEMBERS.

A meeting of the ratepayers was held in the Schoolroom on Tuesday evening,* for the purpose of taking into consideration the refusal made by the Chief Commissioner to allow the Town Board and contractors for the Tay-street improvements to appropriate the gravel for the formation of said street.

Mr Elacklock was called to the chair, and introduced the business of the meeting. lie said it was convened by members of the Town Board, in consequence of that body having come into collision with the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands regarding the talcing of gravel for forming Tay-street. He called on

Mr Monkman, who addressed the meeting at length. The Board could have the gravel if they would ask for it ; but this he and the following gentlemen considered -would be yielding up a right of the Board. The names of those members who had resigned were Messrs. Beaven, Lockhart, Grieve, Garthwaite, Clarke, Grant, and the speaker. Those who continued in office were Messrs. M< Arthur and M'lvor. (Laughter.)

Mr A. T. Clark moved, and Mr Connell seconded, "That this meeting approve of the course adopted by the Board in resigning."

In answer to a question from the body of the room, the Chairman said that the Superintendent had no right to appoint a lload Board.

The Chairman subsequently called on Mr Campbell, contractor for Tay-street, who said, that, as directed by the Board, he had instructed his men to take gravel from the esplanade. While doing so, the police, instructed by Mr Pearson, attempted to stop them, and he (Mr Campbell) had applied to Mr Marchant on the subject. To-day, a summons had been served on him for trespass.

The Chairman asked Mr Campbell if he had desisted ?

Mr Campbell: Certainly not. My men are still taking fgravel from the esplanade (applause). Mr Campbell continued, and said that he had met Mr Pearson to-day in search of a convenient place for crossing Taystreet. He (Mr Campbell) came up behind that gentleman (laughter), and his first impulse was to push him in among the mud, head foremost (applause). Mr Pearson stopped and spoke to him (laughter,). . He said that if the Town Board asked his permission he certainly would allow them to take the gravel, but not otherwise (ironical laughter). Mr M'lvor condemned the proceedings of the gentlemen who had resigned, and affirmed that plenty of gravel could be found elsewhere.

Mr Clarke moved that a deputation wait upon His Honor the Superintendent, but it was not seconded, and after a vote of thanks to the chaairman, the Treating broke up.