There was a long sitting of the Borough Council last night, and the business done was important. Matters are now in fair train for the old and the new warves to be handed over by Mr. Adair to the Council. The cost will be somewhere about a thousand pounds, but the revenue likely to be derived will speedily pay off the principal, and leave a large margin of jprotit to the Corporation. We doubt 'whether the occupier and householders in Gisborne who hold frontages to the Gladstone Road, will be satisfied with a resolution carried last night, that a large line of pathways to be constructed on both Bides cf the streets will be charged to them in proportion to frontages, and will not be drawn from the Corporation revenue. It may appear hard, but in the present straitened condition of the Council, there is no alternative. The Engineer's estimates appears to be low for the work thai has to be done ; but it will be seen by his report that the sum is very considerable, more especially for bad times and a light money market.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 666, 2 April 1879, Page 2
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