LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10147, 21 September 1898, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

Aw ordinary meeting of tlie Lyttelton Borough ;Gouncii was held on Monday. PreBorougk Council was held last night. Present—rHjs Worship the Mayor and Councillors Brown, Field, Radcliffe, Owen, Lewin, Dalley, Grubb and Webb. An. application was read from the employees of Messrs Smith and Co., asking that their wceMy half-Tioliday tnight be changed from Saturday to Thursday. Mr Nalder's opinion was read to,the effect that the request could be grantfed only if all other factories agreed to the change. ' It was resolved to send Messrs Smith and Co.'s employees a .copy of Mr opinion. It- was resolved to take proceedings against the young men who had broken a drain pipe on the recreation ground. The Mayor stated that he had arranged with Mr Buddo to lay before the Board of Education a compromise as to the! Colonists' Hall fire escape. xne matter was left to the Works Committee and Mayor. ,Mrs Jane Wilson waited upon the Council with, a petition which, she wished the members to sign. The petition asked' Government for an increased compassionate allowance, the late Mr John Wilson; the (petitioner's husband, having been an employee on the railway for twentythree years, and all the allowance made was I £50. The members signed the petition, but did so as private individuals, not as councillors. „ The Council granted the use of die Colonists' Hall free to the Benevolent Aid Board for the recent concert. The Finance Committee reported receipts £254 2b 10d, and recommended the payment of accounts amounting to £152 12s 4d. The report was adopted. The overdraft wr«|? stated as £872 3s 4. It was resolved to lay before 1 the next meeting a list of unpaid rates, &c. The* report of the Foreman of Works was adopted,as was the report of the Works Committee. Cr. Lewin called attention to the Abattoirs Slaughtering and Inspection Bill, and pointed out that if passed it would compel the Council to establish an abattoir, from which a considerable revenue would come to the borough. He thought, however, that Clause 26 exempting freezing and meat com-' panics should be amended. He moved that Mr Joyce, should be written to and asked to oppose that clause. The motion was agreed to. Cr. Radcliffe stated that Mr Laurensqn wanted the Council's assistance in forming a boys' class in the Colonists' Hall. The matter was referred to the Colonists' Hall Committee.