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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7787, 5 November 1886, Page 4

At the meeting of the City Council last night the report of the committee appointed to consider the state of the corporation's finances and the retrenchments which ought to be made came up for consideration, and, after a careful examination of all its recommendations, was adopted. Considering the time and care bestowed on the subject by the committee this result ia only what was to be expected. The saving in the annual expenditure which will thus be effected, as on a former occasion we pointed out, amounts in round numbers to no less a sum than £13,000. The detailed reductions proposed by the committee, and now adopted by the Council, appeared in our issue of the 2nd instant, and therefore need not now be specifically referred to, further than to say that they apply with general impartiality to nearly the whole circle of the Council's operations. As we then remarked too, the enforcement of them will bear somewhat hard on some of the persons in the corporation's employ, and more especially will this be the case with those who, unfitted perhaps for other work, have been earning a livelihood by the breaking of metal for the making and repairing of streets and roads. The claim of these to consideration will very generally be sdmitted, and that the members of the Council felt this may be gathered from the fact that the clause recommending that the number of men engaged in this work should be reduced to twenty was the only one in the report to which exception was taken. The motion of Councillor Holland, that this olause should be eliminated from the report was it ia true rejected; but thw

will not prevent the •>•>« . « etonebreakers, for a reco ns £ • ° > matter, being again brought for^ th can understand the feeC 2f- We dispose the Council as a boiSt 7 *° ul< * the report in its entirety, with t 7 Car ry of giving formal and copWβ *° Vie * to the system of retrenchment 6 £ m] °« to be enforced, and vet inSS pr °P 08 ed not all, of its members to deal **»* ? Oait u-r ritß, with any Bh»p which might be created \ °n hard: of the stonebreakers is j Uet ' , llle case and we make no doubt it will »V tt °e, from the Council the' moat ? recei consideration which the c inJf ° Urabl 9 will admit of. Clrcu *«ta nce ,