WAITARA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145084, 8 September 1916, Page 5

WAITARA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MEETING. FEOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. The monthly meeting of the Waitara Borough Council was held on Wednesday night. Present: His Worship the Mayor, Councillors Brabant, Wakeloy, Arms. Johns, Tucker, Sptrrdle, and Blanchard. In the absence of Mr.'fleetwood, acting town clerk, through continued illness, Mr. T. Buchanan acted as clerk. Before proceeding with the usual business the Mayor said lhat. he wished the council to confirm his action in appointing Mr. Buchanan, who, he found, was the only man wire could take up the council's work. This was done, and a vote of sympathy was passed with Mr. Fleetwood in his illness. Commenting on the minutes, the .Mayol said that the condition of the Recreation Reserve had been altered. Ho also reported that Mr. Brosnan had token up his duties, but matters were not at all satisfactory. He had certainly at the start carried out his impounding duties well, but latterly this work had not been done. Mr. Brosnan had sent in his resignation, and he proposer! that Mr. Norris should be intcriowed, A committee was appointed to interview Norris on Saturday next.

An application from .Mr. K. I.ucas for pei'iiiission to build a sceptic tank fur Mr. C'rombio in Waitara West was acceded to. Messrs. Wilson and Allen wrote in connection with an' application that had been made lor a water connection to their property, that they assumed the connection would have been made free of cost, and were surprised to receive an account for £9 lbs. Apart from the fact that no charge had been mode in other eases, they held that tho charge was an excessive one. The Mayor .said he had taken advice from the Municipal Association of New Zealand, and the counsel to the association had replied that the supply of water for cattle was an extraordinary supply, and the whole of the cost of connections .should fall on the consume.. The .Mayor said that his reading of the by-laws agreed with those ol the association. It did not follow that because the council had homo the expense in tho past that they should continue to do so when it was contrary to th) by-laws Councillor Brabant could not see that they should go behind the by-huis. The Mayor said that he wanted tho definition of "extraordinary ” and jwas proved that water supplied to a paddock was extraordinary. Resolved that no remission could bo allowed Instructions were given that the overseer should comply with tho applications of Messrs. J. I’urdio and Gcd',nagli for water service to their premises. A letter from the secretary of tho Hast End Improvement Society was read expressing tlio appreciation ol tho society for tho good work that tho council’s staff had made, in fom ing the footpath approaching the trm-k to the beach. The Mayor said that it was gratifying to receive the loiter of appreciation of tho work done by the council’s staff. A resolution was passed that an application from Mr. A. Richards for two chains of motal on tho road to hi.s premises should be granted, after a division.

Councillor Brabant moved, and Councillor Blanchard seconded, that Mr. Brosnan, who had resigned his office of nightsoil should lie miornied that he must adhere 10 the terms of hi.s agreement by giving two months' notice.—Curried. The. council wont into committee on tli o electric lighting question, the Mayor expressing the opinion that it was advisable at that stage that the matter should bo dealt with in committee

Tho waterworks overseer, in the course of a report on Uio question of installing a filter, wrote that lie found that a very small percentage of nitrogenous matter entered the settling tank, and a still smaller percentage entered the main. By installing a filter a first-class water supply would bo obtained The cast of a filter would be about .€BO3. Councillor Brabant said that according to the by-laws, plans of any now buildings should bo sent into the council. and inquired whether that had been done in tho case of the new picture theatre.

Tho Mayor said it was quite right that plans should bo put Wore tho council. Nothing could be said about tho now picture theatre, as no plana had been handed in. Therefore they could not discuss tho matter. Mr. Mollor waited on tho council complaining of a number of goats running about"the roads near his property. They wore a. nuisance to tho district, there being eight of thorn, and children wore afraid to go on the road. Tho animals could not bo kept out of tho gardens, and they were a genera! nuisance. Councillor Blanchard confirmed what Mr. Mellor had stated. The goats were undoubtedly a groat nuisance. Tho Mayor assured Mr. Mollor that the matter would bo kept in view.