THE TOKO HALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 1, 17 August 1911, Page 8

THE TOKO HALL.

EEXCIXG COXOESSiOX. or-’POSE I) BY CR. MAXWELL. Messrs. Won? and Milne waited on the County Council yesterday in regard to too affairs of the Toko Hall. Mr. Were stated that the committee were hard no for ready money. The Chairman said the Government subsidy could not ho drawn until the Department had been satisfied that the hall was a public one and that the tenure was secure. Till this was done the Council could do nothing.

Mr. Were assured Cr. Ashbury that there wore no private shareholders in the hall. The rules provided that no person other than the secretary could bo paid.

Cr. _ Maxwell objected to the hall committee being given permission to erect a temporary fence outside the road line. He thought in view of the re-opening of King’s saleyards, the general traffic and the probable growth of the township that it was wrong to give trio committee three feet of the public road. The hall had hocn built close to the road line, leaving a narrow passage along tiro hall, and ho (the speaker) thought the committee only wanted the three feet to widen this passage. He would fight against permission being given to the extent of his last shilling. Mr. Were said they hoped the fence would ho put back on its true lino in about three years. Or. Maxwell, on leave from the mooting, moved that the resolution giving the permission in question bo rescinded.

Cr. Thomson seconded pro forma. Cr. Maxwell said that every vehicle turning the corner would hug the corner post very close, and the possibility of an accident was high, and the permission had been given on the silly pretext, of desiring to grow an aleaguus hedge to keep out cattle. The Chairman said that if Cr. Maxwell hod said all he had that day when the motion was passed he thought lie would not have agreed to the motion. He thought one foot was quite sufficient. Cr. Maxwell owed the Council an explanation of his attitude. Cr. Maxwell said lie occupied an invidious position. The Chairman said ho understood as much. Mr. Were said the gate-posts were across the corner of the section, and really did not abut on the road. Cr. Astbuvy thought there should ho no danger in giving the permission so long as the committee agreed to remove the temporary fence within a certain time, it should he seen to that the live fence was not planted on the temporary line. Cr. Walter said he, know the position as well as anybody, and he thought Cr. Maxwell had greatly exaggerated the matter. Since the hall had been built the road had been greatly widened and the three f'cct would never be missed. Ci'. Maxwell, in reply, said that when a concession was granted it besamo a right in twenty-four hours, and a certificate of title in forty-eight hours. Cr. Walter: More exaggeration. The motion was lost, and the deputation withdrew.