BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 72, 20 March 1912, Page 5

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

SPECIAL MEETING. A special meeting of the Stratford Eorough Council was held last evening, when there were present; The Acting-Mayor (Cr. N. J. King), in the chair,. Crs. T. Lawson, S. Ward, J. D. Healy, R. McK. Morison, and T. L. Paget. A letter was received from Messrs. T. Mereer and E. Drake, applying for a lease of the Town Hall for a. term of, say, five months, for a skating rink, and offering to pay £1 per night and 7s 6d for afternoons, the hall to be used only when not otherwise engaged. . j Or. Boon moved that the offer be accepted at £1 per night and 10s per afternoon, os extra to be charged for every hour after 10.30.—Carried. A communication wa.s received from the Public Works Department with regard to the erection of a boundary fence between the Police Station and a borough reserve. The cost to the Council of the fence the Department proposed to erect was £lB ss. It was decided to pay half the cost of erecting ia legal fence. i The majority of the business was done in committee. On resuming, a motion was carried accepting the tender of Mr. Chard for boulders at 4s per yard, and pit gravel at 4s per yard.