MIRAMAR BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 531, 11 June 1909, Page 9

MIRAMAR BOROUGH COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Miramar Borough Council was held.last evening. There were present: Mr. C. J. Crawford (Mayor), and Councillors Petersen, M'Leod, Bell, and M'Clelland.

Leave of absence was granted to Councillors. Cooper and Brodie. The Mayor reported that rates amounting to £980 had been collected to date. A suggestion was made by tbo Mayor, x on behalf of a number of residents., that the 7.1 a.m. car from Miramar should leave ton minutes earlier, ■ and the Tramways Committee.was asked to make a recommendation. A pet lamb at Miramar, which had been reported as a public nuisance and trespasser, was stated to have been "ranged and made available for public consumption." ■ The oouncil expressed satisfaction at this olause of tho ranger's report. "I was walking along Broadway - Street the other day," said the Mayor, "and a motor car nearly knocked me down. It came so close that my overcoat, flapping open, touched tho splashboard." This was when the letter from Makara County Council, regarding the oxcessive speed of motor-cars, was' being disoussed. The Mayor remarked further that complaints had beeti frequent a year ago from Karaba Bay, before the now road was formed. Nino out of every ten 'Jiotorists.worc careful, but the tenth was a road-hog," and they should he allowed to shoot him at sight. A councillor suggested that the motor C3rs should be compelled to carry horns which had a typical note. The council decided support the Makara County in making representations to the Government.

A letter was received from the Department regarding the General Labourers' award, and the Mayor explained that the borough had applied, to he exempted from the operation of the award. It was contended that Miramarwas a' suburb outside the city of Wellington, and an intcrpretati6n of the Court was obtained, which ruled that the watershed was outside the borough, and in that district it was not necessary to give preference, to unionists. It was.absurd, raid tho Mayor, to enforce the preference clause .in Miramnr. Ho would move that the Town Clerk be authorised to make the necessary representations that the borough should not be included in the city area as far as that clause was ocmcerncd, or, at any rate, that Soatonnand Karaka Bay should be left out. A debit bank balance of £15CH> 26. 2d. was reported in tho District Fund ,'ceount. and the Improvements Loan Account was shown to be £22 ss. 3d. in credit. Accounts amounting to £1383 14s. sd. were passed for payment. • ■.•-•.'