ONSLOW BOROUGH

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 123, 20 November 1914, Page 3

ONSLOW BOROUGH

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. At last night's meeting of the Onslo-w Borough Council there were present : The Mayor (Mr. C. C. Crump), and Councillors B. Lynneberg, J. C. Gardner, L. A. Browne, C. Bowden, C. E. Alderson, A. H. Hoby, and B. A. Nicol. The following recommendation of the Public Works Committee in connection with providing water and drainage for the borough was adopted :— "That, with a_ _ view to ascertaining the opinion of the ratepapers, public meetings be held at Ngaio and Khandallah, the question of water supply only to be dealt with." . The meetings will be held at Ngaio on Monday, the 30th November, and at Khandallah on the following Monday. In view of the Khandallah Tennis Club's guarantee to find the sum of £3 18s, it was decided to purchase a floor for the Khandallah Public Hall. The .road foreman's report was adopted, with the exception of the item relating to the tarring and sanding of the footpath from Boxhill to the Khandallah Station. It was decided that the breastwork be undertaken at the same time as the kerbing from the Ngaio Store to the bridge at the station is being carried out. > ' Councillor Nicol moved :— "That the strips of land dn each side of the existing right-of-way between Mona-crescent and an unnamed street be taken under the Public Works Act for the purpose of making a 66ft road." The motion was carried. A circular letter was received from the Minister in charge of the National Provident Fund regarding local bodies' superannuation. Consideration of the letter was deferred. District fund accounts, amounting to £552 14s, were passed for payment.