CAMBRIDGE TOWN BOARD MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 828, 6 October 1877, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE TOWN BOARD MEETING.

The Cambridge Town Board held a meeting on the 26ih ultimo, at whioh three members only a tended. Altec the ordinary preliminary business bad b.en transacted and correspondence read, it was tesolved that Peter Xho.npson should be employed to open up and ciean the : culvert running uuder the wharf roau near the landing place ; also, thac tenders be invited for removal of two immigrant cottages from their, present site to »n ipon che public-sal* } »• d reserve. The next'meeting was. then appoimed for the* 3rd iust, last Wednesd.y. Upon that day the"same three members only put in appearance. Remarking upon thi* fact, the Chairman said that it would o. much more saticf acs ory to hive full attendance of members on the days pi meeting, more especially on iluae occasions when questiou* of importance wen •.0 come under consideration. It woulw now become neoeasary to defers ceria.i* .natters which were to have been brooch/ on to-day, and to aj. pom« another meeim« for vv ednesday next.': Mr Kirkwood reported that the work upon the cuivert. at the wuarf had beei* satisfactorily completed. Two tend: m were received for the removal of the immigrant; cottages—No. J from Mr Wright, for #4B ; No. 2 from tfet-srs O'Neill and Stuart, £i6i the latfer was accepted. •<■> -• ...... The Chairman then proceeded to observe upon the action recently' taken bv/j hj County Council in assuming to itself I po»er without note of warning o<* prt« monition of any kind to those affeoted, to interfere with the public p mnd of the d strict by law established;, and with the pound-keeper lawfully appointed. The first gleam which had reached him revealing the intention to do this was caught from reading advertisements ta the Waikato Times of the 25 hj iustant, ' issued by the Clerk of the Council, purporting to 'establish all existing'pounds, and inviting ' tenders for the appoiutment of pound-keepers.' He had been as*, tonubed and vexed over reading these advertisements. Had the Council announced that it had established both pounds an I pjund-keepers as' already etistin/, such announcement might have been suffered to pass on without open challenge to find its own level aud valuij ; but the removal of a p >urid-keeper of u road dis riot already established, could only be t-ffeo ed uador the : ,i dilation bt i>f the Koad Board of that dssiriot, and it would be a source of deep re.ret to him if the Council, as the legitimate consequence of its first step in (his matter, should proceed to nominate and appoint another pound-keeper, and thus phic* in an a titude certain to bring about collision. ,

Mr Kirkw >od eai 1 that, as a member

iho]W&iini tKit apjn the lue upon proper advice, sncrwas ttetuated' by a desi « to re !l d . ei \L>tl' ; to J rouf boards, 'and c&tainly ribc to enter into coiiflict with thfcfia. • in't-opV'to this, aaid tb.it the P^SL""V" II of and I^^kP^W'S* ** '"■* M*y ™djustly fe-^WiH I *'' bat he thoughtfc ,?W' J&*»11 if, before enuring n tJ on new;toda«tibtful ciiirse, not unlikely iW v t ok » hostility, tue V^knoil|w«urd'i # j, itdr way to cake pro. "P? u point* •*"? Ot»iiiiorifor geuer.lin* ;H(JTentured to suggest that it wottid b>'reaimab'ie that road boards B .^ al « Ee°? iv « timely notice of any proposed actio* to' be taken by County Couhdils when likely" to affect their hir 1 - t . lh f • üb J eCl ' wa » tben dropped, I and the next mating wis appointed for | W«dueßday,'the; iOJh.insJ, at 3 p m. ,