HAMILTON NOTES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1105, 7 February 1891, Page 3

HAMILTON NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

A meeting of ratepayers was held in the school house on Saturday evening for the purpose of deciding which of the two roads leading to Hamilton should be kept open. Mr. James Coram occupied the chair.

Mr. W. Edmonds moved, and Mr. Owen Cambridge seconded, a motion to the effect that the old road should be kept- open; to which an amendment wa? moved by Mr. M'Alpine, and seconded by Mr. James Kerr, to theetleet that both the roads should be allowed to remain open.

The chairman here explained that the object of the meeting was merely to ascertain the opinion of the ratepayers as to which road should be maintained by the County Council. Mr. M'Alpine remarked that that altered the matter completely, as from the notice which had been posted it was understood that an attempt was to be made to close one of the roads. After a rather animated discussion the meeting decided, by 16 votes to three, in favour of the maintenance of the old road.

Mr. M'Alpine protested against the action of the meeting, as insufficient notice had been given to the ratepayers. He stated all those known to favour the old road had been properly notified, while all the notification given to the other side consisted of a small notice posted on the courthouse door, which was seen by very few ratepayers. The chairman stilted that the fact of a public notice of the meeting not having appeared in The Chronicle was attributable to an oversight by the County Council authorities, as he had left a notice in their hands to be inserted.

This explanation did not appear to be satisfactory to some of those present, but the meeting then dispersed.