THAMES MUNICIPALITY COMMITTEE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 83, 15 January 1872, Page 3

THAMES MUNICIPALITY COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the Thames Municipality Committee was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Pacific Hotel. Present: — Dr Kiigour (in the chair), and Messrs Davies, Burgess, Dean, and Goodall. The following draft of a petition, prepared by Mr Tyler, was submitted to the meeting : “To His Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen, K.G.C.M.G. &c., &c., Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and its dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same. “The petition of the undersigned inhabitant householders of the district, the boundaries whereof are hereinafter more particularly sot forth, humid} - sheweth — “ That the said district, the boundaries of which are hereinafter more particularly seth forth, comprises all that block of land commencing on the sea coast at the mouth of the Tararu Creek, thence that the boundaries of the said district arc towards (blank). That the said district lies wholly within one and the same Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

“ That the said district is not wholly or in part comprised within the limits of any city, town, or place specified in the first column of the first schedule of the Municipal Corporation Act, 18G7. “That the said district is not wholly or in part comprised within the limits of any

city, town, or place before the passing of the Municipal Corporation Act, 1867, incorporated, or reputed to have been incorporated under any of the Acts or Ordinances specified in the fourth column of the first schedule to the said Municipal Act, 1867. “ That the said district does not exceed in area nine square miles, and has no one point in such area distant more than six miles from any other point in the said district.

“ That the said district contains a population of not less than 250 of inhabitant householders.

“That your petitioners arc desirous that the said district may be constituted a Borough under and by virtue of the Municipal Corporation Act, 1867. “Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Excellency will be pleased to "consider the said district a Borough under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1867. “ And your petitioners will ever pray, &c."

Mr Goodau, stated that he had gone over the boundary as laid down in his instructions, which he found was quite within the limit prescribed by the act. The line would cut about ten chains north of Kopu. T 1 le outline of these boundaries has already appeared in our columns. The Chairman said it had occurred to him that they had not given the Municipality a designation. He thought the Municipality of the Thames would be the most appropriate title. It was resolved to leave this to the general meeting. It was agreed that the boundaries as defined by Mr Goodall be incorporated in the petition as drafted by Mr Tyler. It was resolved to hold the next general meeting on Tuesday at 4 p.m.