LEVIN BOROUGH COUNCIL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 December 1926, Page 8

LEVIN BOROUGH COUNCIL

(Continued From Page 5.) satisfactory. A letter was sent from our office and the reply should have come to this Council. He moved that a letter be sent to the Audit Department asking for a reply. The whole Council was interested and not the Mayor alone. They were unanimous in considering that the charge was too much. Cr. Mcrtensen seconded the motion and said it was very discourteous not to reply to the Council’s letter. A matter of £9l was far too much to pay for two years’ audit and the least the Depaitment coaid do was to say how it was made up. The Mayor had been good enough to tell the Council what was in the letter, but the Council did not know anything officially. Cr. Bishop said the Council looked to the Department for a reply. A sum of £9l might look a little thing to the Department, but it was a large amount to the burgesses of Levin. Cr. Roe also considered the Department was entirely wrong in its action. The Mayor said that had there been a Finance Committee meeting he would have put the letter before them, but there had been no quorum at the meeting called. The motion requesting an official reply was then carried. GENERAL. The Town Clerk was granted leave of absence to attend the town clerks’ conference in Palmerston in February. It was decided that the office be closed from December 23rd to January sth, and that the outside staff resume on January 3rd. COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON. The Mayor wished the Councillors a Happy Christmas. Whatever differences they had round the Council table, they could meet outside and forget them, and they tried to get the best out of the meetings for the town as a whole. He extended his good wishes to the Town Clerk and his staff and the Overseer and outside staff.. The Council ought to feel elated that they had such efficient staffs. He also included the press in his greetings. Cr. McAllister, as the oldest councillor, reciprocated the Mayor’s good wishes. He trusted the coming year would be full of success and pleasure for tjie Mayor and Mayoress to whom he offered the Council’s greetings. Cr. Bishop supported Cr. McAllister and Cr. Sigley recalled his father’s advice always to start the new year afresh forgetting the troubles and disagreements of the old. The Council then adjourned. s