TOWN AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1942, Page 2

TOWN AFFAIRS

MEETING OF BOROUGH COUNCIL HOSPITAL RATING SYSTEM. REPRESENTATIONS BEING MADE TO GOVERNMENT. The monthly meeting of the Masterton Borough Council was held last night, the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, presiding. An apology for absence was received from Councillor G. W. Morice. The Wairarapa Kennel Club was given permission to use the Masterton Park on October 17 for a ribbon parade. The executive of the New Zealand Municipal Association wrote conveying its sympathy to the Mayor, councillors and citizens in the losses they had suffered in the recent earthquake. The Wairarapa Interhouse Association was given permission to use the Masterton Park on Saturday, November 28, for the annual interhouse gala day. Mr Jordan said the Wellington City Council and the Municipal Association executive intended to make representations to the, Prime Minister within a fortnight regarding the hospital rating system. The council thanked the Secretary of the Treasury for an offer of financial assistance in cases of hardship where residents had been faced with the cost of double reconstruction of chimneys in the recent earthquake. Councillor A. D. Low, chairman of the Gas Committee, was nominated as a member of the executive committee of the Gas Association of New Zealand.

Joe Yee was granted a yearly tenancy of two gasworks paddocks at a rental of £2O per annum, payable in advance, subject to an area of one acre under offer to the Public Works Department and the gas holder paddock being excluded therefrom. It was decided to advise the ManawatuWairarapa Employers’ Association that the council was agreeable to the acceptance of the terms for a new Abattoir Workers’ Award. The council agreed to increase the abattoir manager’s wages to £6 10s per week and free house, to date from the commencement of the new award.

“I must express my appreciation of their being the best selection and parcel of books that I have received from any of the libraries and I am sure they will be much read by the men in camp.” In those words a camp librarian wrote thanking the council for a parcel of 71 books donated by the council.

Consideration of a petition from Mrs O. G. Clarke and others for a street lamp at Lansdowne Crescent was deferred while the lighting restrictions were operating.

The Salvation Army was given permission to conduct a street day appeal on Friday, October 30.