GORE BOROUGH

Southland Times, Issue 21099, 3 June 1930, Page 4

GORE BOROUGH

MEETING OF COUNCIL, Last night’s meeting of the Gore Borough Council was attended by the Deputy-Mayor, Mr J. A. Baldey, Councillors T. Sim, W. Gee, J. A. Wright, T. H. C. Pearce, A. McLachlan, W. K. Hamilton, F. Young, A. Davidson, D. McDougall and N. Hay. Correspondence.

The New Zealand Grand Lodge of International Order of Good Templars wrote urging the council to make lull provision for complete control over the issue of ail licenses to dance halls and cabarets as would prevent the consumption of liquor.— Received. *

The secretary of the Southland League advised that the league was convening a conference of Southland members of Parliament and representatives of local bodies before the forthcoming session of Parliament. The date of the conference had been fixed for June 18.—The Mayor, Mr D. L. Poppelwell and the Deputy-Mayor, Mr J. A. Baldey, were appointed as the council’s delegates to attend the conference.

A letter was received from N. Blennerhassett, Tauranga, stating that on looking through the Year Book for a town hall to lease for pictures he had noticed that the Gore Town Hall was built in the ’eighties and was therefore not suitable for his purpose. He thought, however, that the council might consider a proposal which would provide it with municipal offices and a theatre worthy of the town at no cost to the council. If the council agreed to the proposal he would forward plans of a proposed municipal building and theatre which, he felt sure, would be as fine as any municipal town hall in the South Island when erected. His proposal was that the council should call tenders for the buildings at a cost, when furnished, of not more than £12,000. On completion of the buildings he would take over the lease of same for the duration of the loan, paying to the council principal and interest. The interest would be derived from four shops to be incorporated in the buildings and also from the theatre takings. The municipal offices would be upstairs and would consist of the town clerk’s office, board room and another room if required. The theatre would be sufficiently large to accommodate 600 people in the stalls and 400 in the grand circle. —Received.

Applications for the right to trap opossums in the Croydon Bush Domain were received from J. Luach, T. and H. Nicholson and W. Richardson. —It was decided to open the domain for opossums and that the blocks be balloted for.

The Gore Municipal Band made application for the council’s annual subsidy of £25. —Granted. General.

Councillor T. Sim reported that the road at the intersection of Broughton street and Charlton road was in a dangerous condition for traffic and suggested that the borough should approach the Southland County Council with a view to having the matter attended to.—Councillor Sim’s suggestion was adopted. The Works Committee made the following recommendation: “That the council cannot see its way to make any alterations td the office at present occupied by the health officer.”