COUTNY COUNCIL STAFF.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 104, 23 June 1911, Page 2

COUTNY COUNCIL STAFF.

LOCOXSTH1 I CTION HMCOMM K.V DAHOAS. - CO.M.MITTMMaS ICMl’Uin’ NOT ADOi 'l 81). The re port on the reorganisation o! no County Council stall, presented ,t the May meeting, raino up to he 'o:\lt with at \V( unesday V. meeting i' the Connci!. Cr, .Mari’.'ll said the report wa: 'raw n up in conjunction will: tin mgineer. lie moved tile iMoptun. i the repo. i. Cr. I'oiritt second.'d. I he ( f n..aittee were not wedded to the scheme, ..ad desired to hear trie views oi ,tlier mem hers. I’lie Chaii man advised the Connil to leave the matter alone. When in l present Council came into otiice c.iey found things as they were at resent, aid at tliat time tile Mi;- | gineer was guaranteed in his posilion during the life of the Council. it j ml Keen said that the Council did j oi know how much of the Mugineer’r | .ime the Council had the oe.nelit of, nit so _ leg a* tlio work of the Count v n ,s cone properly .Im amount ./.• j : *... j —:.. i

if time spent was immaterial. it would have been very well if the Jouneil iiacl proposed this scheme eighteen months ago,' hut the proamt Council should not put the sys L.mi into the melting-pot on the eve or it going out of oilice-—they should leave things running as they were for the new Council. Tire Itngiueer’s oiuagemei.t 'id rot cease witn tie . esu.t Council, hut the if\v Com; il wr uld hav , , free a.u. v.!' Christcf.l endorsed lire i (.na..’an’s remarks. If alteration were ocessary, it should iie carried out iy the new Council. Ci'. Thomson asked what would he the position if the report were adopted. There were two schemes. Cr. .Marfell said the report recoin-

mended tlie adoption of the second-] scheme. Cr. Thomson said the provision of i further foreman was merely p itting on a foreman to wan I- t <■ eiin-i foreman. He believed in . letting a ell alone. Up to the present they ii id got on very well. if- ho came back to flic new Council ho would move to leave things as they stood it present. The roads now looked '.jotter than they ever had since the Council was formed. He moved, as in amendment, .that the present arrangement he continued. Cr. Porritt said the committee did '/)t desire to engage a fresh engineer —tlioy merely desired to make a fresh .rrangeinent with tlie present engineer.

Cr. Ashbury said lie believed there should be a a engineer doing only the Jaunty’s work. He could not understand why the committee, who ;e----ognised this,- should iccommomi a rheme whic.h was damned by dual ontrol. Jt merely came to one engineer overseeing the ■vcik of an ithor, liecause if the inoposed forenan was not a competent engineer m would not agree to Ins appointnent. Ha thought tuat c,”.' i ng to ho work in the older ridings becoming loss difficult, the engineer should )e able to spare more time for the ,conger ridings. He would oppose he adoption of the report; and if to came hack to tlie Council it would >a to support a movement to engage in engineer to do the work of the Journal wholly and solely. Cr. Maxwell said he did not know vhat the present arrangement, witli he engineer was. He believed in mo man one position. He asked | nemhers if Mr Robinson would have tot the engagement if lie had sta.ted a his application that he desired to >e engineer for Stratford and iVhangamomona County Councils and ansnlting engineer to the Kgmont Jaunty Council. Ho thought not. I'birther, the engineer had opened a msiness in Broadway. When the A’nangamomom! • County Was cut ou t >! t.hi' Stratford County, tlie engineer's salary should have been reInced, as his work had lieen rodnead. The Council should have the vaale of the services of the whole of da servants. He wanted In know viio looked after no .•ngiim-er. At J c present mom iat tlitrc n..s nobody vho had tiio right to question his actions. Mr Robinson could dominate the whole of the Council in the position ini,! which his relations with the Council had been allowed to drift, fie did not do so-—but the power was there.

Cr. Hathaway said the dispensing .vith the services of foremen would ie getting rid of men who had done toad service for the County. When the responsibility was taken off their shoulders their work would go back. Cr. i’orrilt said ail the ’com mit tee losirod to do was to make some now MTiingoinent with Mr Robinson. The Chairman said Cr. Maxwell’s remarks might have been to the point iwo and a half years ago, before the j: . sent arrangement with the eng’ •hit. His remarks were very unjust to the engineer. Tiic Conncj: -ad. Irani t.ime to time, given its ousent to the engineer taking rmt■ido work. On the whoio, the i •alter was one of give am. take, 'lie •ngineor was not giveo all (l-o con--,-essions without being given extra work for tlio County ;» do. illthough not one of the original sponsors of Mr Robinson’s appointment he would vote for his retention in his position. He himself, and ethm councilioi s, felt that the proposed ;ei;enie was foredoomed to lailn-e. Cr. Walter said his syaipa.rhv had always been in favour of an engineer to give his wuolo time to the County. ii the proposed lereman would «n----ible the County to do -Mihi.ut :-n engineer, he would vote for i-is appoiatment. But it would not do j so; and he was opposed to dual eon-j trol. 'i’he trouble at pre sent war. tiiat j tin- positions of the engineer and the | foronmii wore not safia im.tly defined. j Cr. jMarrel! sadd lie would b>- pleas- 1 ed to have the sole services of Mr Robinson, hr 1 , he fc It sure the County I ao’.ild neve-' afford, to pay .Mi Robin- j son the .-alary he was entitle •! to. ; If ho came hack to the Council hoi would not rest mud lie had had, a i mm appointed who would ho respon- j silde 1 to tin- Council foi the whole )f the work of the County. The aniondinant was eariicd.