RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7115, 13 July 1886, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. TUESDAY, July 13.—Before 0. E. Rawson, Esq., R M. Judgment Summons.—F. P. Corkill v D. G. Campbell; claim, £12 13s 31; costs 133. Defendant wna ordered to pay by instalments of £2 10s a month; in default, 14 days' imprisonment. Judgment for Plaintiff—Samuel Hill (E^morit lloi\'\ Board) v. Moss Davis; claim, 13t) 2<i; custs, 14s. Tlic Court rose. RACECOURSE RESERVE. THE following report by the Local Bills Committee on the New Plymouth Kaccfcoursi question was real at (ho Borough Council meeting on Monday :—: — Tho .Local Bills Committee B, to whom Was referred the New Plymouth Recreation Reserve Bill, have tho honor to report that the Standing Orders have boon complied with. The Committee have carefully considered tho provisions or! tho bill, and have read the petitions for and against tho bill, and have taken a largo amount of evidence, orul and documentary, thereon. They find that tho bill propones to deal with a block of land about 50 acres in extent situated within tho Borough of Now Plymouth, which was reserved for public purposes in 1858, and by the New Plymouth Endowment Ordinances of 18G7 and of 1871 was converted into an endowment to the Town Board of New Plymouth "for the purpose of improring the streets of the said town," both these Ordinances, however, recognising the Tight of the public to use the block in question for cricketing and horse-racing. The bill now under consideration proposes to place the management of tho reserve in the bands of a now body of trustees (named in tho bill), who may devote tho land, and the revenue, if any,

arising therefrom, to horse racing, sports, j games and other purposes of recreation. _ Your committee are of opinion that it would be more consonant with reason and justice, and more in accordance with the wishes and interests of the people immediately concerned, that the reserve should continue to be vested in th<» borough, every piocaution being taken for preserving tho reserve intact for the purposes of a racecourse and cricket ground, and for football and other athletic gamep, as well as for the acoommo.latioa of 'Agricultural and pastoral shows, and for the holding of: militia aud volunteer parades and reviews. Your Comtnitteo also recommend that the maintenance ami improvement of the reserve be a first charge on tho rents derivable by the borough from tho reserve. The Committoe have amonded tho bill in accordanco with tho views herein expressed, and recommend that it be passed as shown in tho amended copy attached hereto.