Hastings Borough

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 204, 12 August 1927, Page 8

Hastings Borough

DOINGS ABOUT THE TOWN. TIT-BITS FROM COUNCIL MEETING. The regular meeting of the Hastings Borough Council was held last evening when His Worship the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Maddison) occupied the chair. The councillors present were Messi's. J. Simmons, E. V. Simpson, T. Donovan, A. I. Rainbow, G. C. Lowe, S. J, McKee, R. Baker, M. Johnson and R. Henderson. The Reserves Committee recommended the council to give Mr. J. Langridge, curator of the Purchase Wellington Zoo, authorof ity to purchase a pair of Wallabies wallabies at £4.—This was agreed to. The question of a camping site at Beatson's Park for motorists was again raised, the ReMotorists' serves Committee recomCamping mending that the council Site. invite the Hawke’s Bay Automobile Association to appoint a sub-committee to come to Hasting? and confer with the Reserves Committee in connection with the matter.—Conference to be called as suggested. That the Reserves Committee had again arranged to confer with repretatives of the Ladies' Croquet Croquet Club in connecLawns at tion with the proposed Nelson establishment of greens Park. at Nelson Park, was the information tabled at the meeting from the Reserves-Commit-tee. Cr. J. Simmons further reported that an offer had been made to the ladies and nothing further had been heard about the matter, so it had been taken that the suggestion to set aside two full-sized greens with the possibility of adding a smaller one, had (been accepted. There was also the possibility of giving the club gateways on to both highways. Relative to the suggestions for extending Beresford street to the end of Mr. E. J. Harmon’s Extension property with the possiof Streets, bility of the further extension of Townshend street, the Works Committee recommended to the council that consideration of this matter be deferred meantime in order that the Mayor might have an opportunity of looking further into it.—Received His Worship the Mayor recently called the attention of the Minister for Railways to the St. Aubyn deplorable condition at Crossing, the railway crossing at St Aubyn street, and offered, on behalf of the Council, to carry out the work of surfacing this crossing at cost price The Works Committee last evening recommended that the action of the Mayor be co firmed. —Agreed to. The quesion of obtaining highpriced books when published or soon thereafter has from time Library to time received the conBookS. sideration of the Library Committee, but ft has been realised that owing to the limited finance of the Council for library purposes, it was impossible to nuichase many of these books. However. the chairman (Cr. M. Johnson) has been informed bv the Rev. Mortimer Jones of a method whereby the Council might obtain these books within a few months of publication at considerably reduced rates, and the matter has been left in the hands of the chairman to go further into.— Received.