PAHIATUA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1937, Page 10

PAHIATUA.

PAIIIATUA, Doc. 7. The Mayor (Mr J. D. Wilson) presided, last evening, over the final •meeting for the year ot the Pahiatua Borough Council. A letter was received from the Municipal Association, regarding the Local Body Amalgamation Schemes Bill, asking the local authorities who wished to tender evidence upon the Bill to do so through the Municipal Association. The Palmerston North City Council acknowledged the receipt of the congratulations sent them during the Diamond Jubilee. The Labour Department wrote stating that a worker was ,working more than the hours and requested that the counoil pay all back pay. The council passed a resolutipn advising the department that so far as it knew the 42i hours were not being exceeded and the council did not recognise the claim. The Public Works Department advised that the Highways Board had agreed to subsidise the main road work at the rato of £5 for £1 on the full width of central plots. The clork stated that this indicated all the crossings and intersections. There was no limit to the period of the offer. Mr Swan wus appointed sanitary inspector for the borough in succession to Mr S. P. Reid. Mr H. F. Pearcey was appointed dog tax collector. Cr S. K. Siddolls suggested that the time was ripe for a revaluation o'f the borough, intimating that some of the sections on the outskirts were rated at a ridiculous rate in view of the increase in the number of houses being built. The Mayor stated that in any case a new valuation would not bo mado in time for striking next, year’s rates. A motion of condolence with Cr Bolton, ot the Pahiatua County Council, in the death of his mother was pussod. The death occurred at tho Mastcrton Hospital on Sunday of Mr Douglas Groves, a former resident of Pahiatua. Tho late Mr Groves, who was 35 years oE •age had been in ill-health for some time. He was the third son of Mr and Mrs F W. Groves, of, Opaki Road, Mastorton, well-known early settlers of tho district. Ho was born in Masterton and educated at the Whakataki and Pahiatua schools. Mr Groves was' a capable footballer and a prominent athlete. He was a farmer by occupation and had worked in various parts of the district. The deceased gentleman is survived by a widow (a daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Bullock), an infant daughter, Ins parents and two brothers, Messrs W. E. Groves (Waipukurau), and D. Groves (Mastcrton)