MELROSE MAYORALTY

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4305, 14 March 1901, Page 3

MELROSE MAYORALTY

to Air James Heir), a candidate for th ays iAlayoralty of Afolraso Borough, address her : ed a meeting of Rosenoath ratepayer Jul iln the State .Schoolroom lost night. Al get sT. W. Ward was voted to the chair. a-j) j Mr Reid, in the course of his_ address to said the abolition of the ward^ sy.si.cn ay, i was an experiment in which Mclros* th- | ought not to join, as there was not sui I fie lent community of interest between cia j the various parts of the borough. H: A, {also spoke against the inclusion of Rose on ncatb hi the municipality of AVelling up I ton, doing so ou the ground that it (would lead to a great increase in rate.ith ‘ without a corresponding return in the 7o 1 way of works and services. With rent spect to reading, ho advocated the horlas rowing of money for the making of ro roads, and urged that an amendment of ch : the bow in respect to local bodies’ loans i should be agitated for, which would -in! meet the circumstances of the borough, it, (As to water supply, lie suggested CO, that sinking would prove sue--11, j ccssful. If water was struck it it could' bo raised by a windmill, sd) ffe bad not seriously thought that the h-|Alelrosc Borough Council should projvi.le tramway communication for Rose“l neath, as he believed the City Council id; should lay a tramway to Oriental Bay. ip ‘ .\n injustice was being done to Island r "; Bay in respect of the gas-lighting rate, j which was levied there, although the h> ward had no lamps. In reply to ques--1 tions, Air Reid said it would bo most 3r i unbusinesslike for Kilbirnie and Resold neath to contribute towards tho cost of st. piercing Alount Victoria by a tunnel to m j reach tho Jenkins Estate. Not one pons( ny should he contributed by ratepayers j towards tho cost of that work. He was d tho originator of tho AVollington-Brook-is lyn-Island Bay tramway scheme, but he n I was under no pledge to further that line oj to tho exclusion of others. There had e,silso boon a scheme for a tramway to I Kilbirnie, hut it was blocked by the d , Alelroso Borough Council. Ho was jr.'-J tr | as anxious to have a tramway for Kil- !-. bimio as to ha ve one for Brooklyn. If >• jan area was not benefited by a work. I> jit should not be rated for it, and the rilaw .should bo amended so as to permit “ special rating areas ir a divided as wcl' la.s in an undivided borough. He boliovr‘ ' ed a- report bad been circulated that ho J.was interested in a certain syndicate, r (Well, he was sorry to say he did nor, •|onn ono foot of the Island Bay raee- ’ course. It would bo nothing short of a T calamity if the foreshore, near Island A Bay wa.s allowed to be built upon, The ’ 1 foreshore there could now be bought ,I by the Council at a nominal rate He (did not altogether like the idea of hav'mg ono man as • clerk and engineer for , i R ( ' borough. An esplanade at Island ’j Bay was not urgently required. He j still favoured the drainage scheme which was included in the recent loan proposThe candidate and the chairman were accorded votes of thanks.