THE NORTHERN APPROACH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3096, 20 January 1909, Page 5

THE NORTHERN APPROACH.

DISCUSSED BY THE BOROUGH COUNCIL. The Town Clerk submitted a report of the recent .Borough and ! County Council delegates' conference ! regarJing the northern approach to last night's meeting of the Borough Council, the report being similar to that made to the Coun';y Council at its last meeting. The Mayor said he was sorry he could not attend the conference, but he entirely approved of the result of it. He thoucht it should be made clear to the County Council that the Borough could not enter into an agreement on the lines set out by the conference ur,til after a commission, properly constituted, had met and formally apportioned the cost as agreed upon, this being a necessary legal step. It this course wnre taken a poll of the ratepayers would, it seemed, not be necessary, as if the , commission said the Council had to : contribute a ceitain share it was j bound to do so. ' I Cr Prentice said that as regarded j the cost of the work, there were | certain local bodies who were es- j caping what was a just burden on them. These were the Mauriceville and Castlepoint County Councils, whose ratepayers both used the approach. Cr xMorris mo«ed that the matter stand over for six months. Cr Hunter favoured a poll of the ratepayer on the matter. Cr Elliott agreed with the latter suggestion. Finally the report was adopted, Crs Elliott, Haughey and Morris voting against it. A further motion moved by the Mayor was carried, that the County Council be asked to allow tha Borough Engineer to confer with Mr McLachlan (Cuonty Engineer), and that the Borough Council be furnished with plans, specifications, and estimates of the cost of the improvement scheme.