NORMANBY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8036, 25 August 1887, Page 6

NORMANBY.

Thje adjourned meeting of the Town Board was held on the 17th instant. Present:— Messrs. Wilson, Gane, Kowe, McGregor, A. Bailey (chair). Correspondence waa dealt with as follows : A letter of thanks from Mrs, S. A. Harrison, for remittance of burial fees of her late husband; from Hawera Road Board offering to pay one half of cost for repairing Ngarongo road, their engineer waited on the Town Board to take immediate steps to repair the tame, as the road is dangerous : On the motion of Messrs. Wilson and McGregor, it was carried. Messrs. Wilson, McGregor, Rowe, and Bailey for, and Gane against, that the consideration of the Han era Road Board letter re Ngarongo road stand over until the next ordinary meeting of the Board ; from Hawera County Council re cheque £28 2a 6d subsidy to a County road through township, likewise as to number of slaughtering licenses issued by the Town Board, and re £5 due by the Town Board as half salary to clerk of Licensing Committee, Hawera district : On the motion of Messrs. Wilson and Gane, it was resolved to pay the Hawera County Council the above £5 as per request; a letter from Messrs. Bailey and Thompson (butchers), calling attention to the fact of Messrs. McKeever and Anwick slaughtering without a license, it was proposed by ■ Mr. Wilson and seconded by Mr. Gane, "That the clerk, Charles E. Gibson, be appointed inspector of slaughterhouses under the Slaughter House Act, 1877, within the town district."' Carried. A letter from W. L. England re lowering the Town Board valuation on the portion which was destroyed by the late fire. Resolved on the motion of Messrs. Wihon and McGregor, "That the valuation on the land and remaining buildings be reduced to £120.'' Carried. A letter from William McKeever re his trap horse being taken out of his paddock at night, the ranger impounding the same in the Hawera pound before seven o'clock in the morning : It was proposed by Mr. Wilson and seconded by Mr. Bailey, " That Mr. MoKeever's letter be handed over to the police, as the Board consider it outside of their duty to deal with the matter,' Carried. On the motion of Messrs. Wilson and Bailey it was agreed to purchase (as per circular) a copy of Mr. Wilfred Bidger's Local Government Guide for the sum of 10s, postage Is 6d." Carried. The engineer reported, as per resolution of last meeting, that he had measured a good many of the streets, and found Turner-street only half a chain wide, part of Atkinson-street half a chain wide, and many of the other streets, including the . county road through the township, which is fenced on one side by the railway authorities, less than one chain in width; buc owing to the absence of pegs could not say which side had enoroached on tha street, Mr. Gane, speaking on the report, stated that he, a few weeks since, having to pick up some lines of sections preparatory to erecting fences, had measured aoross from Mr. Winks'hedge to the railway fence, and in the eleven chains, as shown on the plan, there was 38 links deficient. Mr. Gane moved, "That all burial allotments be reduced one half, and the burial fees for persona over ten years of ago bo reduced from 25a 6d to 15a 6d, and for persons under ten years from 16s 6d to 12s 6d. There was no seconder. The Town rate of one halfpenny in the £ was carried on the motion of Messrs. Wilson and Gane. The statement of estimated revenue and expenditure for the year ending the 31st March, 1888, was adopted, on the motion of Messrs. Bailey and Rowe. Another of those Normanby miserable alleged street trespass cases was before the Hawera R.M. Court on the 17th instant, and was dismissed, the R.M. remarking that such a case should never have been brought into Court, and if he did not know the positions of certain parties he should have been at a loss to conceive why such » case was brought into Court at all. Even if the trespass was as alleged, the street was blocked by a swamp the whole width. It was clearly shown that some persona' horses and cattle can roam by day or night with impunity on the fenced streets, whilst other people's are persecuted for having stook on their own land.—[Own Correspondent.]