HAMILTON AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 13

HAMILTON AFFAIRS.

BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING.

[BY TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Friday The Hamilton Borough Council met last evening. 1 The Mayor, Mr. J. R Fow, presided. Seventy-seven applications from all parts of- the Dominion wero received for the position of traffic inspector at a salary of £5 a, week. . The number was reduced to six, and the Mayor &nd town clerk were deputed to interview these before a final selection is made. It was decided to raise a loan of £2500 for the purchase of the Masonic Hall, Hamilton East, as a museum and social hall for that suburb. '• '

In regard ■to the watrk , on the■ * road from Frankton to the* borough boundary on the Cambridge side,. * Mr. C. J." W. Barton, chairman of the Works Committee, said he hoped to have gangs working inwards from both ends of the town and had, every expectation of the road right through being completed by the end of the summer. The Mayor said that the Controller-General of Prisons ' promised that the supplies .of •metal would be kept up. The • general manager of railways also" had promised, to do what he could to see that an ample supply of'trucks was available for carrying the metal. /'