CAMBRIDGE TOWN BOARD

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1728, 2 August 1883, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE TOWN BOARD

A special meeting of the above I oard was held in the town toard offices on Tuesday evening last. Present : Commissioners Wells (chairman), Hewitt, Richardson, Johnson and Clarke, The Chairman stated the object of the meeting, which was to strike a rate for the year ending 31st March, ISBI, and read the following statement of estimated receipts and expenditure for the year. Receipts : Total rateable property on valuation roll, £138,595 at Jd in the £, £433 2a. Receipts from other sources, £76 18s ; licenses, £160. Total, £700. Expenditure: Kefund of advances on award and expenses, Clements' and Rose's claims, £321 12s 2d ; surfaceman and tools, £120 ; gravelling, £100 ; offices and advertising, £60". Commission on rates, £22 ; Bank of New Zealand, in reduction of overdraft, £66 7f 10d. Total, £700. The chairman explained that only an approximate estimate could be made of several of the items on either side, but that on the whole the foregoing statement was as close an estimate as could well be made. The estimate was received and approved by the board. On the motion of Cr. Clark, ' seconded by Cr. Hewitt, it was unanimously resolved, '• That notice be given that it is the mii tention of the board to hold a meeting at their office on Thursday, the 16th August, at 7 o'clock p.m., to strike a rate of £d in the £ ou all rateable property in the Cambridge Town Distiict for the year ending 31st March, 1884. j The business for which the special meeting was called being concluded, it was decided, on the motion of Cr. Clark, as all the members were present, to proceed with the ordinary business of the board. The following correspondence was read :— From Capfc. McPherson, secretary to the Cambridge Road Board, declining with thanks the offer of the use of the town board's office at 5s per sitting.—From A. Isaacs, applying for an auctioneer's license (this had been already granted.)— From Mr Durrieu, Government auditor, containing suggestions regarding the board's accounts, and stating that the accounts had been so correctly kepi; that he thought the board wo vi ld accept suggestions tending to make them still more complete. (The suggestion's applied to merejy technical points.) — Form of rate receipt bbok, under the new, act, supplied by Mr J. S. Bond. The form 'was approved of, and the clerk authorised to obtain the necessary quantity. —From Messrs <\yhitaker and Campbell, applying on behalf of Mes|rj» WJiitaker,' Russell and others, for leave' to ' bsonpy the ~ foreshore 'between the Karapiro uri4go and th.c W.S.N. Company,/* allotment, to' laW, stack and law timber thereon, and erect the noces«at>y' buildings, &e.-^]?rom R. D.'&ewart, supporting a,, petition' from owners 1 of' cows.— From' Mr Sporry, sta'thig^ that he bad 1 ' pbs&d "a'tnerifled valuation; ' roll. This" roll 'had been ' received/ and 'in reference to itftne clerV re*d>a !l list ! ;6f a* number of .valuable properties that were*'

• pow|&to legally make apf altera|?oh£' on. the valuation roll before t>ufctiug"ife in th 1 e v > rate-book, and read the Blauses in the act which. state«,th,<r grounds' on ;' which app«ialh "could 1 be" made.— Applications for the?a|>poin,tinenfc of ranger were received from Messrs A; B. Caoipbell, at the rate of ls.jber head for; cattle and horses impounded,arid froth D. Carnaehan,* at the ral;e of lid per head — A petition was received from. Measra McVeagh, Shaiiaghun, and others, praying the board to reconsider their decision re grazing cattle in the streets, as many who had cows pos-, sessed no paddocks, and the board had provided no place for grazing cattle on the payment of a fee, and stating that the petitioners would be put to great loss if the decision of the board were to be adhered to, and that if the cattle were housed at night no damage or inconvenience would be caused by them in the daytime, and further that prohibiting cattle to graze in the streets whtild tend to create si monoply in the milk trade. The Chairman briefly stated the result of the battle between the county council and the town board re the publicans' license fees, and the action he had taken in the matter. He had telegraphed to Mr J. B. Wliyfcc, asking him to get the opinion of the Solocitor-Geueral, which proved in their favour. He had also cited a similar case which occurred with the Woolleston Board, which was reported in a Christchurch paper, and had obthe particulars of a case where of the two publicans at Gore, oue paid his licensing fee to the county council and the other to the town board. The county council sued the man who had paid to the town board, in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Invercargill, and on being dt- | feated in their action, appealed to the ' Supreme Court. The appeal wag heard j last November, before Mr Justice i Williams, who said that the real question ' at issue was : Are the town boards under the act entitled to receive fees when within a county. He was of opinion : that the town board were the body to receive the fees, and dismissed the appeal, with costs. In their own case the county council said they would not do It again, and he had brought the £160 back with him. In reference to the alleged indebtedness of the town | board to the county, the council had i moved for a return of all accounts between them, not including the Karapiro [ bridge, which had been declared a county work. When this return was furnished it would be found that this board would !be to credit. The county wanted to ! charge them with the Taotaoroa account ! in addition to their own to bring them in I debit. The Karapiro work was only done [ by this board as agents for the county council. I Petition- rt Cattlk.— Cr. Johnron saul he did not want to stand in the I way of the cowkeepers and public generj ally, but had always vinderstood that the cattle were only to be allowed to remain on the run until the Domain lands were i put up foy lease, so as to give an opportunity for owners of cattle to procure i paddocks for them, but none had done so. The only other resource was the 35 acres of the Domain which were now shut up, and would be ready to lease when ' there was feed on thorn. He saw several ; names on the petition of people who were \ originally very pressing to have cattle taken off the run.— The Chairman said that the chief burden of the complaint appeared to be that the notice was too ; short, but really notice had been given two or three years ago. Notice had been given from time to time, but the pnblic seemed to think that the board had been i cr ying ' « °lf ' so l° n g> that now the wolf had come in earnest they could not i lieve it. After some discussion, and many pathetic statements of the insinuating manner in which the hungry bovines make their way into gardens during the present scarcity of green feed elsewhere, itjsvas resolved on the motion of Cr. Johnson, seconded by Cr. Richardson, that the time for closing the run be extended to the Ist September, when it will be closed both day and night. Appointment of Ranger.— Mr D. Carnachan was appointed ranger for the year enrliug 31st May, ISB4. Cr. Clark raised the question of the pound enquiry, if it w ere not a loss to the board. Horses had, to his knowledge, been run in fiom vVaipa County, out by Walker's Gully, and nearly from Ohaupo. He thought it wrong to bring 303 horses m from such a distance to run the board into debt. — -The Chairman did not see how thoy could refuse to allow such horses to be impounded.- Cr. Hewitt reminded the iirst speaker that Cambridge West was in "Waipa county. — The Clerk stated last half-year was the only term during which the board had lost money by the pound, and that the pound was usually a source of income. — The Chairman said that the board formerly held the pound as delegates of the county council, but they now had the same power concerning it as they had regarding the licenses. He Russell and Walker's application for a lease of the foreshore for a term of years. The Chairman proposed to deal with them as they had done with other lessees, give them such right as the board has to all land on the river side, reserving a road of a chain wide, which would leave the applicants about 1£ chains in width. It was resolved that the application be granted, at a rental of £40 per annum. Cr. Clark drew attention to the circumstance thafc the W.S.N. Company were occupying their old allotment on the foreshore, landing posts, &c, on it.— An opinion was expressed that the company should be considered as trespassers, and dealt with accordingly, and the clerk was instructed to serve them with a notice to clear off their shed and all material within 14 days, or an information would be laid against them. The payment of Messrs Rose and Clements' claim, £114 was authorised. Mr 6. F. Hosking'a account for services as engineer to the board was discussed at length, and finally passed at £38 14s 2d, items amounting to £12 3s being struck | out. The following accounts were also , passed :— P. Cooper, £35 2s : W.S.N. Company, £3 9s 6d ; and J. Sharkey, £2 2s. Cr. Hewitt drew attention to the state of the new road leading to the Karapiro bridge, and the necessity of cutting off the springs there. The surfaceman is to be instructed to see to this. On the motion of Cr. Clark, it was resolved that representation be made to the Government, through Mr J. B. Whyte, re the tardiness and delay shown in completing the Cambridge railway.

Messrs T. and S. Morrin aud Co. 'a new advertisement will be found on the fourth page. We direct attention to the advertisement to the Melbourne Turf Club's Monster Sweep. Notice, is given that a dividend will be paid in the assigned estate of Audus Raynes on Wednesday next. Tenders are required for alterations and additions to the Te Awamutu Cheese Factory, Pians, etc., may be seen at Mr Bridgman's store, and tenders must be in not later than 4 p.m. on August 11th. Change of Times, — What would a fine lady ' say to see such a meal as the following laid before her At six o'clock in j the morning ! It is a tavern bill from a landlord in " the good city of Chester" ; j — " Breakfast provisions for Sir Godfrey Walton, the good ladie Walton, and I their fair daughter Gabriel — three pounds of saved salmon, two pounds of boiled mutton and onions, three slices of pork, aix red herrings, six pounds of leavened bread, one choppin of mead, five choppins of strong beer." Manners bf the 15th Century. 4- MDi?,, visitkig in a clergyman's family' where the parents were very strict with ;> regard 1 to 'the ohiWren'g Sunday deportment, was confidently in- f formed by one of 'the little girls that she would'like' to be a^blergyinan. " Why ?" inquired the 5 visitor, ' rather puzzled to know what .bad.giventhe philct so sudden < f ;thaVWU{i{g:^ s Stta«i