MIRAMAR BOROUGH COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 134, 3 December 1915, Page 4

MIRAMAR BOROUGH COUNCIL

There were present at the meeting of the Miramar Borough Council last evening the Mayor (Mr. F. Townsend) and Councillors S. M. Stone, S. H. Underwood, H. Hawthorn, M. Tracy, W. H. "Green, and J. Pollock.

During the early part of the proceedings the members of the Miramar Fire Brigade, were in attendance, and Councillor Underwood, in appreciation of their efforts in iire fighting, presented them with a handsome shield for competition...

Mr. Stone, the captain of the brigade, expressed deep appreciation of .Councillor Underwood's generosity, and said it was such gifts that encouraged a volunteer fire brigade such as Miramar had.

The Mayor then presented Mr. Alexander, sen., on behalf of the council, with a large framed certificate for his son, , Mr. F. Alexander, who has left for the front., In doing so, Mr. Townsend said that Mr. Alexander, jun., was the first member of the brigade who had' enlisted. During the time he was with the brigade he had been a very active member. Mr. Townsend mentioned that fifteen or sixteen residents had already gone to the front or had enlisted, and the district was shortly to 'lose two or. three more of its residents, who had the same object in view. On behalf of the council the Mayor then presented Mr. R. B. Bennett, the town clerk, who is also leaving for the front, with two pairs of binoculars. • Tha City Council wrote, in reply to representations made, that it intended to lessen the number of'city and suburban passengers carried on the 8.49 p.m. and 9.49 p.m. trams to Miramar on Friday nights,.

The letter was referred to the Tramway Committee.

The council also wrote submitting a rodraft of the timetable of the cars run daily for Seatoua, bringing the total number . through the Miramar borough down to 52, a reduction on the present number.

The letter was also referred to the Tramway Committee.

It was decided that a report from the War League regarding pensions lie on the table. ■>

A letter was read from the Petone Borough Council covering a resolution ,• passed by the council urging that pensions be granted to dependents of soldiers irrespective of their circumstances, and that Parliament be called together to amend the *War Pensions Act The council agreed to the first part of the motion, but the latter part of it (urging a special session of Parliament); was rejected, on the motion of Councillor Underwood, who contended that Parliament could amend the 4ct in the ordinary course of events and make the legislation retrospective.