MASTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9995, 16 March 1910, Page 5

MASTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The fortnightly . meeting of the Masterton Borough Council was held last evening. There were present,-' The Mayor (Mr P. L. Holluigs), and Cra. W. Morris, J. C. Ewington, R. Kigg, W. Pragnell, F. W. Ternple, J. Elliott and J. Pauling. Apologies for absence were granted to Crs. Prentice and T. G. Hoar. The Works and Finance Committee reported as follow :—" Accounts totaling £340 Is 6ri as set out in Orders on Treasurer Book were submitted and passed for payment. A return of the Abbatoire Manager for month of February was submitted and received. A return of the Poundkeeper for the month of February was submitted and received. The Town Clerk reported regulations having been made providing for the election of a new Board under thi3 Act,, and that the Borough Returning Officer was taking the necessary steps to conduct an election. An application was submitted from the Wairarapa Cricket Association for the sole use of the Park on the 25th and 26th inat., with the right to charge for admission, the occasion being a cricket match between Wairarapa and Marlborough. The committee have instructed the Town Clerk to grant the Association the use of the Park on the days named, with the right to charge for admission thereinto not exceeding the rate prescribed by statute, subject that ladies and children are to De admitted free. A communication was submitted from the secretary of the Mastertun Technical School, asking the Borough to undertake the tar paving of the school frontage abutting on the public footpath on Dixon Street and suggesting that the Borough and the school managers bear and p&y amoiety of the whole cost. The committee recommend that the request of the Managers be granted, and that the matter be left in the ■hands of the tforough Engineer to carry out. The committee have considered several applications for the remission of the current rates on the ground of poverty, and recommend that the requests be not acceded to, subject however to roll entry No. 701, £1 13s, and roll entries JSJos. 129 and 130, £ll 15s 6d, paying one half of such sums the committee have instructed the Town Clerk to take the balance in settlement of the claim, amoiety to be written off on the said ground of poverty." Cr Morris moved the adoption of the report. Cr Pauling, in referring to the Cricket Association, asked if no stated charge was to be made for the ! use of the Park.

Cr Morris stated the Association paid a certain sum annuallyCi Pauling stated that he did not «ee why they should have the use of the Park free of charge more than any other Association. The report wa3 adopted. The secretary of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company wrote asking for permission to use the private road through the Abattoir property to the Mte of their proposed works for a period o£ about three weeks. Cr Mori is counselled caution in this matter. The road at present was not in the best of order, and it should be remembered that some hundreds of ions of material would be carted over it.

Cr Pauling said that he understood from the chairman of the company that the road would be kept in repair during the period in which it was used.

Cr Temple thought the Council should not grant permission until they had fuller details. Cr Ewington said that the road would probably be left in a better state of repair at the end of the time than previously. On the of Cr Rigg, it was resolved to grant the application subject to the road being kept in repair and left in such order as to be approved of by the Borough Engineer. The Verv Rev. Dean McKenna applied for the exclusive right., of the Dixon Street Baths on Friday, 18th inst., from 8.30 a.m. to pmp<' The request was granted.