WAIHI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 255, 25 October 1907, Page 2

WAIHI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TVAIHI, Thursday. At the monthly meeting of the Borough Council, held to-night, the manager of Uie National Bank advised a credit of £1601 17/7, the amount received from the Government as gold duty for the month of September. Declarations were also received regarding the purchase of 1G,&460z of gold within the borough. A letter was received from the general manager of railways, intimating that there was no present "intention of making any alteration in the ex'stim; service betweeu Morrinsville aud Thames. A further communication was also received stating the objection to the extension of the railway to the East End. It yvas decided that the bowling greeu should be opened for play on Saturday, 2nd November. Accounts amounting to £1203 were passed for payment. The sanitnTy inspector reported receipts totalling £()7 14/ C, and expenditure £102 4/2. Regarding the doctors' request to ride bicycles "on the footpath, the Works Committee recommended that the inspector should be instructed to use his discreltion at times when doctors had urgent cases to attend to. The committee aleo recommended that Richardsou and Blair's quotation of £650 for a stone crusher should be accepted and the machine procured. A long discussion ensued over a motion by Mr Foster that swimming baths shouJd be erected. The motion was finally re jected, it being contended that the money could be better spent on roads and iinthsIt was decided to take legal opinion on Hit- P.onrd of Kdiirntinn's refusal to alt<>r the doors of the Central school to open outwards instead of inwards. The Council also agreed to erect a pavilion near the entrance to the Recreation Ground at :; cost of about £90. and also to give the increased grant from £100 to £200 for the maintenance of the library. A letter from the Wnihl Beach Company with resara to tae Beach-road was authorised to be forwarded to the Minister of The Mayor then vacated the (-hair, and it was resolved that his. honorarium should be at the rate of i'loO per annum.