MASTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9039, 4 March 1908, Page 6

MASTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL

• * ORDINARY MEETING.

The Masterton Borough Council met last evening. Present —The Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine) and Crs J. H. Pauling, J. Elliott, F. W. Temple, A. Haughey,, W. Pragnell, J. C. Ewington, J. Prentice, and J. Yarr.

The Finance Committee recommended that an advertisement be inserted in the local papers, on Monday and Tuesday next, notifying that rates outstanding after April be sued for, and ten per cent, penalty added. A letter from Mr J. Cavanagh, of Michael Street, bearing on the settlement of a fencing difficulty between the writer and the Council, was "received."

The Park and Library Committee report was adopted. The report recommended the cleaning out and lining with concrete pipes of the lire wells in Queen Street. The Council agreed to accent the estimate."! cost of the drainage of the streets in the Yates' Estate subdivision, to allow of the streets being pf.sje;] when other requirements were fulfil Jed.

Messrs Beale and Parton wrote applying for a [l'm water connection to* Messrs Gray Bros, premises in •Queen Street for lire purposes only. —Granted.

Cr Temple asked why a sum of £5 2s had been refunded by the Town Clerk to the secretary of the Masterton Club, a surcharge on the water rate, when it had not been authorised. The Town Clerk, in explanation, said that he had investigated the application of the secretary of the said Club, and was personally satisfied that the refund should be made.

Cr Ewington contended the Town Clerk had acted somewhat in defiance of the Finance Committee's orders, and in opposition to express instructions. The matter was left for the Finance Committee to investigate at its next meeting.