RICHMOND BURGESSES' ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19624, 21 May 1929, Page 5

RICHMOND BURGESSES' ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL MEETING. Mr J. Stewart presided lit the annual anting oi to* lui-hinond Burgeesea' Asaociafio*, held !»t evening. There was an atMiMoa L'i riilmn members. Tsjs ana_»- rvpurt stated that a> large loan 111 been eanctujiK-d by the ratepayers for MM During the year efforts llLkeea made to induce me Government to f MP* * l '°° l » ntl Telegraph ouuse for the r*"* 1 of KichmonU,, ..»«L t |' largely-signed I ■on n*. been ruwiMMt£io Parliament. I a r**u'.\ a. branch poet'office had been •Mn.-i.slnHt at a store, but it was hoped to < *£? t9 *" "P -10 -* l *** Poet »«d Telegraph OBlc*. n»- M.dcn;ng of Stanmore road was . being cartied out. A deputation Uu:n tho Association had approached the Mib.s:.t for Education with the request *ker th-- Cwcrnmrnt should hand over the •id Rii-I«.'ii.-.nd School site to the City Council for .i rcoii'ation ground, but had been Mdoixutx; Ibcre was no hope of this being •oaa. Th- nir-Miivrahip of the Association •a* 170. T'.o oslancr-sheet showed a credit tt lie id. The n*|*>rt and balance-sheet were adopted. The election of officers resulted:—Patron, Mr P. C Sharp?; president, Mr J. Dougan; tke-preaidtm, Mr A A. Cornelius; honorary vice-president*, Messrs G. Morrow, H. l*i*«r. W. Taylor, and A. MeKenzie; treaaW, Mr L. Kerr; secretary, Mr E. C. M*wn: eic>cutiv>-, Meesrs R. Mather, W. W»«U«worth. W. Lawrence. J. Hunter, W. *••«»«?, P. Beare; Social Committee, Messrs W. Sweeney. A. Hutchison, Gk Morrow, J. fat; de!*£«!fs to the U.B-A.j Messrs J. Rtwar; »nd A. Cornelius; auditor, Mr J. Jackson.

Mr A. Hutchison pointed out that during %» last four year* orar £BOO,OOO had been aiaau ior unemployment relief, but scarcely 4410 of ths» huge sura had been apent in Kdunoihi. A number of the road* in tho •jiMnr'. *-*«! sn a good condition, but the hUfaihs were in a very bad state. Nothing W Urtn spent on the footpaths in Rich•wsd for the past ten years. He contended fiat the Richmond footpaths should be im|NtTed out of the loan moneys. Ut Hruwri pointed out that the United «rgaa*t*' Association had secured legal ad•faa on footpaths, and had notified that • f.iotpatha vrw put down and maintained •* the ratepayers' espouse. It *as lii'c.d.ii to write to the City Council ••laeatir.;- th- Works Committee to meet ■Msahart of the Burgenses' Association ref*f*> R s: «n inspection of the footpaths in