BOROUGH AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 7

BOROUGH AFFAIRS

MEETING AT GREVTOWN

TENDER ACCEPTED FOR REST ROOM.

GAS MANAGER APPOINTED

("Times-Age” Special.)

The monthly meeting of the Greytown Borough Council was held last evening. There were present: The Mayor (Mr Horton), and Councillors Nightingale, Wood, Farley, Blissett. and Tate. Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Balfour and Eagar. The building and sanitary inspector’s report was received, and it was recommended that there be a regular refuse collection and that the refuse dump be put in order.

Mr R. G. Vile wrote on behalf of the Papawai renovation committee inviting the council to.attend the meeting on Sunday next at Papawai. The invitation, was accepted. Mr R. A. Pickard was given permission to erect a Neon light.

Two tenders were received for the erection of the rest room —D. F. Andrews £325 9s and F. C. Benton (Featherston) £316. The latter tender was accepted. In connection with the rest, room the following resolutions were passed: That the rest room be accepted as the Greytown Centennial Memorial, and that the project be submitted to the Wairarapa Zone Committee for approval: that the Greytown branch of the W.D.F.U. be written to requesting them to pay over the £2OO as promised; that the section be transferred to the council; that the' Featherston County Council, the Greytown Trust Lands Trust and the South Wairarapa Working Men’s Club be written to asking them to subscribe to the funds of the rest room; and that a public subscription list be opened.

The council decided to subscribe £4O to the rest room.

It was left, to the Mayor and Town Clerk to confer with the’ Zone Committee in regard to the local centennial celebrations. Councillor Tate said that he considered that as Greytown was the oldest town in the Wairarapa it should hold its own celebration.

It was moved by Councillor Tate and seconded by Councillor Wood, that a public meeting be called to arrange a fitting local celebration to coincide with the opening of the rest room. The motion was carried.

The gas committee’s recommendation that. Mi' Bungate, of Masterton. be appointed manager of the gasworks, was adopted. The Wairarapa Electric Power Board wrote stating that the request for linesmen to bo stationed at Greytown would bo considered at the next meeting of the Board.