CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2255, 21 December 1886, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL

A SPECIAL meeting of the above council was held yesterday, to consider the advisability of borrowing' £3000 to payoff the present liabilities and form the whole of the streets in the borough. Present : His Woiship the Mayor (Mr J. Gwynneth), and Councillors Hewitt, Gillett and Hally. The Mayor said before proceeding with the business he thought it would perhaps be better to say a few words about the letter he had sent to the Government. The remarks that had appeared in a certain newspaper last week were from a disappointed individual, and not worthy of notice, but lie did not think it necessary to inform the council in reference to it. The Lite acting- Mayor, Mr Houghton, had refused to take any action in the matter, and he had thought it his duty to write at an early date. Perhaps it would have been better to have brought the subject officially before the council before writing, but he had seen most of the councillors about it, and knowing the majority of them were in f.nour of the .scheme he had written before doing so. The letter was not written at his own private house as had been done by a former person in authority, but at the public office, where the record of it was kept and open for inspection. With this explanation he would proceed to the business. His Worship said they had been specially called togetheir to consider the advisability of borrowing a sufficient sum of money to pay off the debt on the Karapiro bridge, and the bank overdraft, and also to make the whole of the streets iv the borough. Since calling the meeting he had thought it would be better to ascertain if the Government were willing to tend them tha money upon the same terms that Hamilton had been granted. He would therefore propose that the meeting be adjourned, sine die, and that the Mayor be requested to call another meeting on receipt of a reply. Cr. Hally seconded the proposition. In reply to a question from Cr. Gillett, the Mayor said he had written to the Colonial Treasurer, but the letter was not posted. He did not think it advisable to furnish the Pre«s with it. On the receipt of the reply he would call a meeting at the earliest possible date. The proposition was then put and carried. The Mayor said he had carefully looked through a copy of the Devonport bye-laws, which he thought were better suited to the borough than either of those received from other towns and he had made notes upon them. He suggested that each councillor should do likewise, as he thought it would facilitate the business when they discussed them. The meeting then closed.