WAIHI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 3

WAIHI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—OW.V CO ItRKSPOS UK ST. ] . j ■ Waihi.' Friday. The monthly meeting of the Waihi Boroitsrtt Council was held last evening, the Mayor ' (Mr, John Xewtli) in the chair. - Advices were received from the Tre.-uiprv, to the effect that gold duty amounting to 12s had been placed to the credit of the borough, and declarations were read announcing the purchase within the borough of 21,W0/, of gold daring the past month. The secretary of the Hospital and Chari-V; table Aid Hoard notified that the hospital r trustees had levied on lite Hoard for i;isCO . for hospital maintenance, and asking for a vote to cover that amount, and a cheque on account tor £390 (incltnliiitf £5 for. chart-', table aid?. The application wag granted. . The town clerk (Mr. if. 11. Morjietht stave the estimated expenditure for 19bS-9 as £29405, v and receipts to the same amount (including ~. gold duty. gold Acid revenue, and other re- - r-eipts, £33,134, and general rate, £866}. The statement was approved, and the town clerk f was authorised to arrange for all overdraft :if ,£20,000 for the ensuing year. Accounts totalling £1574 14# .54 were (audi !i for payment. The report of Mr. 15. A. Franklin, district inspector to the district health officer on.' . she borough water supply, was read. 1t.,."; •vas derided to have a bacteriological esaini- . nation made of a sample of.the water, the 1 properties of which have already ' been favourably reported upon by Mr. J. A. Pond, "iovernment analyst. The Minister for Railways, replying to the Council's representations in favour of the ixtension• of the Government, railway from ;he present terminus at the west end" to the :astern end of the township, intimated that investigations made clearly indicated that lifticulties existed which, entirely presilnde'. lis concurrent with the scheme submitted .