GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 223, 13 January 1880, Page 2

GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL.

An adjourned meeting of tit is Council met in the Board Office, Temuka, yesterday. when Mmbm Tripp (Chairman), Sealey, Acton, Wilson, Mendelson, Bard castle and CHilee ■were present. The minutes of the forir eland .pecial n e tin-9 wcr ; read and c» uirmed. The Chairman said a few words in reference to the-business that had to be done. There was a clerk to be appointed, and also a hank and a solicitor; many other important ma/tu-s also had to be considered Letters were read : from Mount Cook Boad Board, Mr Barnet*, Timaru; Inspect©- of Schools, Wellington ; a member of the Timaru High School ; Inspector of Slaughterhouses; Mount Peel Road - Boards(and Inspector of Police, Temuka. Proposed by Mr Clul e, seconded by Mr Acton—That the Council take into consideration at its next meeting the l esirability of rescinding resolution passed on January 4, 1877, in reference to place of meeting, in accordance with Clause 73 of Counties Act. 187'“. and of holding its future meetings in - Timaru. ■ The morei- said Timaru was the capital of South Canterbury, and theie were more ratepayers south of it than there ws re north. A better class of officers could be got, and commodious offices, obtained, Mr Ssaley supported the resolution. Mr Mendelson stated that at the Council’s

first meeting, held soma year# ago, a resolution wws passed, which would have to be rescinded and that seven days notice must be given; before the motion was put. Mr Wilson said, in reply to Mr Clulee, that

if Mr Clnlee’s argument carried any weight with it—-which he denied it did—all the Councils in the colony would have to meet in the capital of the districts. In Ota o, for initiate the Councils held their meetings in the centra the districts 0.1 as near as possible, an I as .emuka was in the centre of the district, he juld see no reason why they si ould meet in imam. The Chairman said he. would rather hare Geraldine than any of the places mentioned. Motion withdrawn, to be discussed on Mon-

day next. 1 Air Acton stated the Slaughter Act pressed • too heavily upon such p’aces as Wash dyke, ' and that it. would be fairer' to put on a general license of L 5. It would be better to adjourn the consideration till Monday I9th. Mr .Wilson thought the conditions of the Act shou.d be complied with except that payment should be made upon a sliding,scale, so that Hi lar er the number of animals killed the less the rate per head or per dozen.—The , consideration of the motion was adjourned. Proposed by Mr Bealey, seconded by Mr A«ton —’That the Clerk to the Council bo directed to apply to Mr Lough. -EegisVrsrunder the Dog Tax Act for the Board of Tima, n, ind i-equssS. a refund of ail fees received by him-for tho rs,'.ls‘ra“i>u of-dogs, tbs-owaers * ei whi.i’i are resider* i; t’jo County of t>sraltli.o?. -rtifst Is tb? limit? f Thf&-7i.--oarTed.

Prop-wed by .Sir Chi’c•, seconded by Mr 'Hardcastle —i'lmt. Mr Howell tie re-elected a mem tier of the Tima u High School Board, »s the * ionnc-il’i* representative. —Car: id. Proponed hy Mr Chdee, seconded by Mr Rarde-istle. that, the mount Coe 1 ' Road Boa' '' l b’ inform d ‘hat, »« the CVn -cil a< n< tt ‘•truck a county rare, the? are not at present, in a position,to a.-.-ede to their request, hut will t;kc it into e iv (deration when tliov ore in a Snaneia position to do so, theft*.application to **e tabled again so soon as other works of a similar nature are"' undertaken by the Council. —Carried.

■" An amend merit was,pronosod —: Iha Jhe letter f ‘on the Board in reference to a bri Igc over Ohau Hirer he acknowledged. —Lost, Proposed by Mr Bealey. seconded by VIActon—That the clerk write to the clerks of the Temuka and Levels Hoad Boards, for-in-formation as to what steps have been tak -m •toward* the re construction of fee bn ge over the Opihi .aud and general information on the Biibjeo’. Carried. Mr Wilton propog d that ihe state of tin* Oji'hi B idj e Vn* con.' ti- red at their next .raeeLng,

■“lt was proposed, seconded, and carried that the clerk be requested to apply to the Ashumion .County Council a d to Colonial .Secretary, requesting that, the Ashburton County Council and Colonial Bee. will be good enough to supply any information at hand as to proposed extension of the Rangita' a Drift ge. —Carried. That Clerk to Council be directed to applo to each of the Road Boards within Ihe County of Geraldine, under section 2 of the Counties Act. Amendment Act 1577 for a return,giving the full information of a-nual rateable value LS7L Rate* collected for year ending Dee. .31 1870. Pur 3 years ending Doc. 31st 137/). The council then adjourned.