WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1922, Page 6

WAITARA.

BOROUGH COUNCIL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) September 16. The monthly meeting of th? above council was held on Wednesday, the Mayor presiding over a full council. The trustees of a fund for the improvement of the approach by way of Stafford Street to the Camp Reserve made application for a grant of £5. which with poppy day funds would enable necessary work to be done. —Granted. the foreman to supervise the work. 4 Authority was received from the State Advances Office for payment of interest at the rate of six per cent, on the electric light loan of £6BOO. It having been ascertained that £lOO face value debentures should be sold at £93 5s to give 6 per cent., it was resolved to sei’ as many as possible at that figure, the Waitara Harbor Board to be notified that these debentures are now available. The chief electrical engineer wrote stating that particulars had not been received re base lines carrying electric cur-rent-in Waitara. The lighting committee reported that the majority of requirements asked for would be effected by the arrangement with the New Plymouth Borough for current. The chief electrical engineer is to be asked that where insulation is not urgent it be held over, the council insulating new connections. As finances would not permit, the council was unable at present to make a grant to the Pearson Memorial Fund for the blind. Improvements to road and footpath was asked for by Mr. H. Mackenzie, on behalf of the Presbyterian Church, leading to the minister’s house.—Referred to work committee. The borough overseer reported that Mr. J. Kibby was building concrete walls adjoining his business premises without the necessary permit, and that the walls were without reinforcement. A. Johns suggested that if it was only a matter of walls, probably no action need I be taken, but if the walls were to carry : a roof they should be reinforced. The j matter was left in the clerk's hands.

The clerk stated he had not yet received a reply from the New Plymouth Borough as to supplying electric current. A subsidy of £7 due to the Clifton Football Club on behalf of shower baths installed in the domain was granted. Mr. L. Kendrick was appointed general inspector of the borough. GENERAL. It has been decided to again write to Mr. W. T. Jennings. M.P.. re a sitting of ithe Waterways Commission in Waitara . in connection with river erosion. i It is announced that the “Big Store” so successfully carried on by the late Mr. Jas. Rennie has been sold to a Mar- , ton business man. j Mr. John Colesby, an old resident of the district, who was on a visit from Hokianga, where he has been fully farming, died of pneumonia on Friday, after a short illness. He had been a hard worker all his life and was well 'respected. Mr. R. Gribbon, who has been on a trip to th? Old Country and the Con- ■ tinent. was expected to arrive by the Corinthic yesterday.