WAITARA NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 118, 8 June 1901, Page 2

WAITARA NOTES.

(PliOM OUR OWN COHREBPONDENT). The monthly meeting of the W.-.itira Town Board was held on Monday eveniag. Present: Messrs. Og'e (CJhairraar>) Ofcappell, Fras r, Hignett, and lliddell. The Library question advanced a further stage, the Oil it-man reporting th it a suggest ion had been made that the Ma onic authorises would bo willing to purchase tho old building known as the Waitara Instill e for a sum of £4O, which a-riount would be available towards the expenditure iricu-rrd in th? erection of a new building. It was proposed by Mr. Hignett, find soeo de I by Mr. (Jh ipp'll, that steps bo taken at oL'ce to trhii-fei the pr perty of t he Board ; that th • building ' e sold to the Ma-ooic autl-o - it s for £4O, and that hey be gr nod a leas* of the grou d at a peppercorn rental for a period of thirty year?. Tli« isolation wis Cirri.d, ami, aft r « discussion on plana submitt d by Sles-'s, M. Jones and J. Ton.', respectively, the Board ('ecidtd to accep Mr. Tong's plan and to call tenders at o ee for the election r-f a building on the site next to the Po,t It ii. hopei that by tho next m»eting of the Bard tho fraroe-wo k of will *t least ba e ■< cted. It has be n a fairly hard contract to get so faradvanned upon the r. al, bui the ben l ) fici 1 influences which must undoubt-H'-ly resu t from thj e*tublishmen of •uch >,n institution will nmply repiy tbe trouble taken. Messrs llign tt and Fivse." reported on be'mlf of the Works Oommiitee that lamps had be n wtictol in the prsi'ioas- nuthoris d, rud that, the formation ut Pratt s'ae-.i bad besii compltel. Mr Ohud waited on the B jird, j»nd sated that he wns unable to fulfil his contract of metalling |Green street owing to the aofeial having run out. Mr Hignett said he had visited the pit, and that there bad been a great fall of earth,

and he su»g-st<d that the Tarauakil C'ounly CouEcil should be asked to' allow Mr Ghard to obtain an additional! 50 yards of- metal from Big Jim's pic j to complete the contract. This was agr<el to. The s'.cretary of the! Muri e Department wrote, aeknowlo ly<n<* the res'ilutim having refer I ancj to the Govt n.ment nominea | tfipri sontn l ion on '.ho New Plymouth Hirbi.u Bo.ri', and sta'ed that the matter w. uld r ceive fu'l cocsideration wl e:i the appoin ments were mad>\ There was other one p n-dence of an I i'iiportalit nituro, and after (accounts amounting to £49 0) 10J the Board rc*e.

How many hundredweight cf coil maka a ton? It seeois 'o dopwd upon whether the question is 'ooked a' from a supplier'sor aconsu<i er's standpoint. For some little time pst a violent Gon'rovf isy has been r ging on this subject, tu*. >o far the p oblem ha nppaien'ly bien too difficult of solution. The s»g'iesti;>n that a weigh-bridge, uuder the control of the Wniiara Harbour Boird. shou'd be established is a god one; as, apart altogether ftom tV;e disput- s respec ing weight between the supplier and the consumer, tie institution might prove advantageous as an educational medium on the q lestion of " weigh's and mwsuies."