MIRAMAR BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 3

MIRAMAR BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

. 1 . .'..■■■■ ! . MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. ' 'v.-, :: : Mr.' F. ■ Townsend, Mayor,': presided, v. at the .fortnightly meeting of tile Jlira-mar-Borough:.Council on Thursday. Tlie ■ following were also present Counci- ' lors S. :M. Stone/ H.- Hawthorne, ••!£... Tracey; W. H. Green, and J. Pollock; A letter was received from the Mira- j' : mar Golf Club suggesting thatan "on ' request" stopping-place should be made,at ; the' clubhouse, and"also 'that tho -'. council should • issuer-Concession tickets. 01" thirty rides for one shilling between the boundary and the-clubhouse. It ■ was resolved 'to. grant the request regarding the tram stop) but. the'request, ■ for' concession tickets was . declined. The Borough Engineer. (Mi\ T. Fox), in presenting his ; report ■ for, the four , weeks ending September,27, stated 'that':the expenditure'in wages for that' period' ' amounted to £120 9s. lOd. . The'statement .of; receipts and ex-, penditure for the, half-year, ending • SejK * tember 30 showed'that the-affairs of, tho borough were satisfactory. .It was ■ . reported that owing to the'rates having : beenst-ruckv' Earlier,.; thisyear / the .re- < '< ; ■: ceipts for the halt-year: showed an. mcrease ot £797 19s. 6d. In the Borough Engineer's water supply _, report for . •the' /three: months: ending September 30, it was stated that the amount, of from ■ the City Council amounted to 5,876,000 ' , gallons. The,' amount oonsm'ned in the borough.: was? 5,492,000 gallons." This loft 370,000 gallons, or 6 per cent, .of • the -total quantity purchased. : ■. '.. ,