TOWN BOARD.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 240, 4 February 1888, Page 2

TOWN BOARD.

A spkoial in >elhvj; of the To Ar.»!ri Town li >ard was hold '»ii Tuo-jl.i)- evening last, pr^eit: Corn's G iviri, L'Yazjr, Ilott, and IL itciion. in Htj iilhqmcj of tho c!i linn in, on tho motion of Una ilntohen, C«)in« (xivin w.is c! 'ctv^l chiinn m juo tew. Ti)>' in 'etiHwj was convene I for tho piiniosj of. co'i.si.loriiiu; the v.ilnttiotj list, .h lately m.i.lu by Mo^srs L ivory a:i>l Ci niii).i. Tli j vain itioti roll \v is laid on the til)l« hv thu cL'i'U iiriJ closely inspect j tl l»y thct ui iiii'ter ' ol' t:it' B >t'(l, .nvl «i len^thv di-.-uu.ssioM ensued ; tiuTo h^in^ a n nnim ».k e.\'[»v.shioi> of n;>ini in t'nt fclia sinmnl vain ;- 8. i t opu.iHtte thd var.oii-s pr.);) •rtu i>-»i >-» \»'t i ro, alnnMi with nil excvpti.Hi, far b.'low whit they shnjl I no; boiu • propyrtie-* iudoeil bein^ 1 valno<l at about n thinl or i'oinih of wiia: they mrtnaily let Tor an-l a^ u wbu'e. the total wit-t ,c(»nsiiie>*«j«l to am>>n.it to les-^ than half what it- shouhl b •. ■ ite^rot was impressed that the iir-t va!n:tion of the to»\ n <Ustttk*t nhonl 1 have proved -so inisatisfactory. and that it \vo;i)d b> iibsolntfly iU'Cos>ary that the Board should object thereto ; in fict the inoinbtTd present .stated tl)tvt ntejtivciN who had inspected the li>t werj Iheinsdlvijs unanioons in expr«ssiniy thu opini-m that the v.daos set down weiv .■ib-iiirdiy low. On tho motion of Com Ilott seconded by U< in. llotohen it was unaninionsly resolved, That th.) Bo.ird do object to tha wholo of the valuation li^t for the To Aimli i Town District, m\ t!io ground 1 * that tliw r.it.'ubln v-ilno of ihe properties theivin tvi\ i nvd to 13 greater th mas sat foith in the id list. On thu'.notionof tie Giuiinuau seconded by Uo.ll. II >tc»in, Coma ilott and Frazer were Woputwi to cutu'imnioato with Air Miller, solicitor, ipaoiue ihatteiy respecting which thw' Bmrd wore not quite clear. This w.u all the busluos^.

Tho bast ilJunratel papW out.— A banknote, "To di oouciriao an atlvortisemdni, " Bays John Wa^ama)tor, ouo of* tho largest advor--ti^ora ia tliewdrldj v ia iiko taking do^rri ypiur Bign." • "* *