ANNUAL MEETING

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 58, Issue 4228, 21 December 1949, Page 8

ANNUAL MEETING

COROMANDEL COUNCIL MR E. CHAIRMAN At the annual meeting of the Coromandel County Council held recently in Coromandel Mr E. Deeble was unanimously re-elected to the position ef ehairman for the ensuing year. Expressions of appreciation for the work done by the chairman during the year just ended were made by Crs. F. H. Purdom and S. H. Leßoy-Dyson. Cr. T. V. Whittle said that he wished to aasodato himself with the other eouneillon in their expressions of apIfsiiotfm of the ehairman’s work. It ym • source <rf gratification to say he had led the eoundl as a whole. There had boon no division of opinion but Km complete concurrence of every Mmbar ®f the council. One point ted te thought and that was

2» now wharf, said Cr. Whittle. It mi nod needed and would be of peat btMftt also to the people over fee ML Bo ** disappointed that ■Mb important matter had not boon tested. So far every effort had boon ef no avail They had seen w2b to the wharf the unhappy dttte tern eno Government de-

partmte to another. The ratepayers Aaaid know that any delay had not boon doe to any fault of the eouficil or ehafamaa, said Cr. Whittle. They verw concerned over the condition of tbe reads, as other emmties were. Rboy ooald emphasise to the public if paribb that the council was distinctly beavered by Government depart*

The standards laid down by the Mtfe Works Department for county wdrk was not carried out by the department in what it did. A job was laid out and a limit placed on the finance. fte job was pruned to meet the ae*7 allowed, instood of the money conforming to the job as laid

Mt, Ae • remit bb *ur*—amount wu pat in the estimate* in the certoto knowledge that it would be cut. ok. WhHte rmrlniiert by endorsing (he VMMffts made by member* reto Mr Deebie ae chairman of K Otita eeaneiDore epoke of the extarn work and the good spirit bad during the past M**dtod OpraasQf the hope that the Cite y*“* w *°bi fruition efiU under consider-1 the chairman said that him to receive LateMMtot eadprmmmt of his work Kao tatoMM»<Hmnad of the conn, EEFmm *•• • tow* »”*** easts bat af • K&Mrf>• jiaewtoJ efforts the ctofftW had echtersd UMwdtop Mftdte aa*W hoped tor <«-tha earning thanks for |dfrdiNlldLhff>fe'*Mo hgpod tbtor |jK*f w tato • Mutton that patented to the Mini*. tWt Cereamadal ’lk • —**i- a* _* •W 1 peootme _so , mey j to -the stated de-