KAIAPOI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1884, 29 April 1869, Page 2

KAIAPOI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

This Council met as usual on Tuesday evening last. Present—The Mayor, Councillors Dudley, Birch, Newnham, Kerr, Oram, Middleton, and Hall. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A letter from Mr Heilsen tendering his resignation as assessor was read and accepted. A letter was read from the Rev W. W. Willock, enclosing the following protest, to which were attached fifty-nine signatures: —" We, the undersigned ratepayers of the borough of Kaiapoi, protest against any further proceedings being taken by the Council in the case of j Beswick v. the Borough Council, excepting in the manner proposed in the resolution passed at the meeting of ratepayers on the 14th April, 1869." The opinion of the Attorney-General as to the action was received by the Council. Cr BißO_r moved, and Cr Ksbb seconded— " That the receipt of the Rev W. W. Willock's letter be acknowledged, and that he be informed that on so important a point as that therein referred to, the Council does not feel justified in making any alteration in its present course of proceeding. Firstly, because the Council is strongly advised on high legal authority that to abandon the case in its present stage would be very prejudicial to the interests of tbe borough. Secondly, because after (as it is rumoured) a vast amount of canvassing, tbe protest enclosed in Mr Willock's letter is signed by only rather more than one-third of the burgesses, and cannot therefore be esteemed by the Council as representing the true interests of the majority of the town." , It was found on looking over the burgess list that 57 of the signatures of the protest were burgesses holdirig*7B votes, against 211, the whole number on the burgess list. The motion was carried unanimously. Cr Hall said, though he supported the protest, yet it was not. signed by a sufficient number to make a majority, and he could not support it in the Council. It was decided that the resolution instructing the Council's solicitor to proceed be intimated to him. Cr Bibch moved, aDd Cr Keee seconded, " That the Government be pressed for an ; answer on the financial scheme and informed ' that the bridge if unsafe {or traffic."

This was carried, tho Clerk having sZTT had received no answer on the aubiLv! 7 h ° Tho Public j Works Committers,S tho etate ot tho pound ; repairs foTh ° Q about £3 were necessary. Mr Eden h.??' paired the embankment in Charles etr* being seen to. Sixty loads of shincle hS\ ° U spread about the streets. The bridge «n& repairing, and waa getting more unsafe 1? attempt has been roado to abate tho n_uJ? ° at the Kaikanui hotel. Cr Kerb mored, and Cr Birch "That the clerk write to Mr Lynakey ing him of the repairs necessary to tho „S | and that they must be at oneo made VrT work would be done by tho Council at hi, 1, pense. Carried. v**u** Cr Newnham moved Cr Draw second —"That it be an instruction to tho dS Works Committee, to place shingle on Havl street, Black street, the North road, and CWu street." Carried. ™^arU, Cr Newnham moved-- That tho nuiwacß at the Kaikamui hotel be seen to by the PmKiWorks Committee." Carried. Uc Ihe following accounts were ordered to U paid :—Hunter, £L 8a 6d ; Powrie, £3 0s o d Mr W. Dudson's name was accepted as eecu rity for Mr Crookea' contract for th© bri_»_ tolls, in place of Mr Nielsen. gS Cr Bibch moved—" That Messrs Newnhun and Co's application for an extension of k m of the river reserves occupied by them from 14 to 21 years, bo granted " ' ° m After a discussion, the motion waa B „_i n adjourned. s The balance sheet showed a total amount in hand of £130 14s 6d. lQ The Council then adjourned.