TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2249, 7 December 1886, Page 3

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Monday.

The quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee was held in the courthou&e on Saturday, the whole of the members, viz. Messrs J. A, Dobson, Jas. Mills, Geo. Lipsey, Edward Quinn and J. M. Murray being present. Transfers of licenses were granted as follows :— For the Palace Hotel from James Warren to George Ebert, and for Ritcheson's Family Hotel from Win. Henry Ritcheson to Annie Thomson. An application for confirmation of the license for the Te Aroha Club Hotel to Arthur Downes, husband of Emily Jex, was also, granted. A complaint was made by Sergeant Emerson, 1 who brought under the notice of the committee the fact that on the premises of certain licensed persons pigs were kept and that a nuisance was thereby created. He considered it his duty to refer to this matter as the approach of the warm weather and the wantof any proper system of drainage rendered it necessary that the strictest attention should be paid to cleanliness. He al^o intimated that he had drawn the attention of the said persons to the circumstance. The committee expressed their approval of the action taken so far by the police, and instructed Sergeant Emerson to see that the requirements of the Act were in this respect fully complied with, and that he report further at next quarterly meeting of the committee. A vote of thanks to the chairman for his attention to the duties of his office during the year was passed on the motion of Mr Quinn, seconded by Mr Mills. This concluded the business. The domain board held their regular monthly meeting in the board room on Saturday evening, when there was a full attendance of member^, Mr Geo. Wilson presiding. After the minutes of the previous regular and special meetings had been read and confirmed, the motions of which notice had been given by the chairman re revision of chargesjfor admission to baths and b y Mr Quinn re sale of tickets, were disc ussed, and the following resolutions b^'iring upon t njnj subject were passed: — Ist. Proposed b/ Mr Gavin, and seconded by Mr Quinn, "That the minute allowing the sale of tickets per dozen at reduced rates be rescinded." 2nd. Proposed by Mr Quinn, and seconded by Mr Gavin, " that the existing bye-law relating to the price of tickets be amended as follows: The charge for No. 1 bath to be altered to 4d, and that Nos. 4, 5 and obe also 4d ; the charge for No. 2 to be Gd, and for No. 3 (the private baths) Is. The tickets for Nos. 1, 4, 5 and G to be white, for No 2. blue, and for No. Gred. 3rd. Proposed by Mr Quinn, and seconded by Mr Ahier, "That all bath tickets fur the future, untd further notice, be sold outside of the domain." The secretary was enstrncted to draw up specifications for public tfndfr- f«>r the sale of tickets, the folk wing to be the conditions: — 1. Tickets to be paid for on supply. 2. The supply to be not less than £20 in value. 3. The place of business where tickets arc ■old to be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. 4. A week's notice in writing to be given by either party wishing to terminate the contract. 5. Tenders to be returnable on Saturday, the 11th iust. The secretary was further instructed to make arrangemonts for the printing of 10,000 tickets and 100 posters, announcing the alterations in the charges f*r admission to the baths. A commencement has been made by the contractors for cutting the track at the baok of the mountain to connect the Waiorongomai goldfield with the minep at the Tui creek. The contract now begun is only for that portion of the road lying within the Piako County, but it may be expected that the Ohinemuri County Council will quickly see their way to have their part of the track token in hand, and thus complete a work which will be the means of opening up a considerable area of auriferous country, and which will otherwise be a pnblic convenience. It is likely that after the question of local government" for the township is settled at Wellington the settlers in the outlying parts of the Aroha riding will endeavour to have their poition of the county constituted a road district. There can be little doubt that the ■ettlers would benefit by the change. Summer seems at last to have set in. The weather for a fow days past has been magnificent, and there are signs of its continuing so. m — mmmmmmmmmmm