Masterton Cemetery Trust.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3112, 25 January 1889, Page 2

Masterton Cemetery Trust.

A meetiug of the Trustees was held in the Temperance Hall, on Thursday afternoon last. .Present Messrs E. Feist, R. M. Galloway, .and J. Payton, Mr J.Payton was voted to the chair, and- the minutes of the preceding, meeting were read and confirmed.

The balance sheet for the year ended 31st Deoember, 1888 was presented, and read. The receipts showed balance January 1, 1888, £27 Gs sd, ground fees £sl 10s, rent paddock £2O. Total £lOl 16s sd. Expenditure by labor £4l 7s 4d, trees, £5 8s Od, salaries and commission £lO 8s 6d, repairs &0,,. £l2 17b Bd, advertising and sundries, 3911 a lOd, balanoe, credit, £2B lis Gd.

The balance sheet with the auditors report thereon was adopted and ordered to bo published after being presented to the public meeting. The following accounts ware passed for payment, W. Sellar, audit fee lOs'Od, W. Prangnell, carting 6s, M. Case!-. berg & Co, paint io £ll4s lOd, Clements labor £ll6s, J. C. Ingrain salary, commission and labor £1 8s Bd. The custodian reported that ■ he had cut down a few of the large pine trees that obstructed the footpaths, and those that appearedto endanger the gave fences. Fifty young' trees had been planted this season, of varieties most suitable for a cemetery forty-six of whioh were doing well. . In consequence of complaints of flowers Ac, being taken.from, the graves, the Trustees offered a reward of £s' for a conviction, but no one, as yet had claimed the reward and very few complaints were now made. The total- number of interments that had been made in 1888 was 41 ] the previous year being 29. -. The, cemetery paddock, formerly leased by Messrs Lowes and lorns at £2O has been since let to'Mr W.' Neill, by tender, for three years, at a rental of £l6lOB per annum. ' . The report was approved of. j Mr Rawson was appointed to revise i the plan of the cemetery, and Messrs A. R..Bunny and tl, Feist, were" appointed a Works Committee for the ensuing term. This concluded the business. •' ' •No one; outside tho Committee attended, the public meetiug. The balance-sheet was -presented for general iuspeoiion and the meeting terminated,' ,' ..-■ : ''.