EASTBOURNE RATES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 308, 24 September 1937, Page 6

EASTBOURNE RATES

Coming- to Hand Satisfactorily

The rates for the current year had come to hand very satisfactorily, reported the town clerk, Mr. C. L. Bishop, to last night’s meeting of the Eastbourne Borough Council. At August 31, the last day for discount, £7500 had been collected out of a total of £11,250 struck. This represented a collection of 66.5 per cent, as against a collection of 64.5 per cent, at discount day last year. The steady improvement in collections had been maintained.

Ten men were now engaged on fulltime employment under the Government’s subsidy scheme, and this would enable the council to carry out some useful works in the near future. CARD AFTERNOON Waimarie Croquet Club A pleasant card afternoon at which Mesdames J. August, Davies, and MeInnes, assisted by Mrs. Fairbairn, were hostesses, was held in the Waimarie Croquet Club pavilion o_n Tuesday. Donations were received from Mesdames L. T. Watkins, B. August, sen., Flux and Pollock. The winners were: Bridge, Mesdames Mouat, Wright and More; 500, Mesdames Wiffin 1. and Haden 2. Mesdames Webley sen., and More, received prizes for the lucky number. Those present were: Mesdames Routley, Wilkie, Armstrong, W r arburton, .A. Peck, Edwards, Drysdale, Strand. Westbury, Vagg, Murphy. Welly, Wood, Hendry, Savage, Campbell, Whitcher, Vaughan, Brooks, Corlett. Voting, Nicholls, Fauvell, Jenness, Stoupe, Dyer, Monks, Marten, Roberts, Stonehouse, Passmore, Fairbairn and Miss H. Macaskill. RATEPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION LETTER TO COUNCIL “Reserves Right to Use Its Own Judgment” “So far as the functions of the association are concerned it reserves the right to use its own judgment in pursuing its activities in the interests of the district,” wrote the Eastbourne Ratepayers’ Association in a communication read at last night’s meeting of the Eastbourne Borough Council. The association, writing in reply to the council, said it was learned with regret that the council should have taken exception to the action of the association in communicating with other bodies regarding pedestrian traffic crossing Customhouse Quay to and from the Eastbourne ferry wharf. The association stated that the council’s previous dealings with it would show that the association had always endeavoured to work in harmony with the council and to assist it in matters pertaining to the welfare of the borough and its inhabitants In any case it was gratifying to note that the joint efforts of the council and of the association had resulted in more satisfactory control of pedestrian traffic at the Customhouse Quay crossing in Wellington. The association had received a satisfactory reply from the chief traffic inspector, Wellington, to its letter of July 30 to the effect that a traffic officer would be detailed for duty at the crossing whenever possible. It also received a further reply that the equipping of this crossing with automatic signals would receive further consideration when installations of this nature were being contemplated. The letter was received without discussion. TABLE TENNIS FINALS Results of the finals of the Hutt Valley Table Tennis Association’s 1937 championships were: Men’s singles: A. Osbaldiston. Women’s singles: Miss K. Tustin. Men’s doubles: Messrs. E. Boniface and G. Smith. Women’s doubles: Misses K. Tustin and M. Walsh. Combined doubles: E. Boniface and Miss P. Harvey. The winners of the handicap tournament were: Men’s singles, K. B. Longmore; women’s singles, Miss K. Tustin; men’s doubles, Messrs. Longmore and Hughes; women's doubles, Mesdames Valk and Kennedy. Certificates have been presented to in-ter-club winners as follows: —A grade, Association Cup and certificate, Empire Club, A. R. Harding; B grade, Excelsior Club, Trask; D grade, Empire Club, A. R. Harding; C. grade, Hutt Club, B. Pegler.