WAIMATE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 June 1926, Page 9

WAIMATE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.). BOROUGH AFFAIRS. .MEETING OF COUNCIL. The Waimate Borough. Council met on Tuesday, the Mayor (Mr G. Dash) presiding. There .were also pieseiit Councillors T. Twomey, W.G. lAul, J. B. Robinson, A. E. Lewis, W A Mc - son, H. Smith, J. Atwill, and F. Nash The Timaru Borough Council acknowledging the Council s letter of sympathy in connection with the death of Mr Virtue, town clerk ol lQ maru. —Received. . . , . Tho secretary of the Municipal A sociation, Wellington,- in reply to an inquiry from tile Council as to. wliy tho annual subscription had been raised, wrote stating that at the last conference all subscriptions hid been raised by one-third. , ' „ A circular letter and literature was received from the "White Now Zealand League, Pukekolie, asking the Council s support in an endeavour to prevent an influx of Asiatics into New Zealand. The Mayor said there was quite a lot of matter in the booklet. The samples of residences . /allowed to erected by Asiatics in the; Pukekoho district, if erected in Waimate, would cause groat heart-burning. . Regarding Wainiate’s experience of Chinamen, the Mayor said tho town had been fortunate in having only one or two as residents, who had proved as good ‘'white” men as .it was possible, to nieet. ’ _ On the motion of Councillor Twomey, it was decided to pass a resolution supporting tho Whito New Zealand League’s objection to the admittance of Asiatics into Now Zealand, and to forward tho resolution to the Minister. The Timaru Harbour Board wroto that the levy to be made on the Council would bo Jd in the £. Tho town clerk said the rate would bo the same as that collected last year, hut the rateable value of the borough had increased a little.

The Waimate Returned Soldiers’ Association wrote that at tho last annual meeting of the Association a resolution had been passed expressing confidence in the Council’s administration of tho Poppy Day funds, and that the Council ho given full discretion in the expenditure of all future moneys. The Mayor said that it was satisfactory to know that the R.S.A. had continued confidence in the Council.

The borough traffic inspector (Mr George Dunlop) notified several breaches of tho borough by-laws by motor-car owners.

It was decided that the usual course be pursued in regard to cars without lights. A building permit was granted to A. W- Good in respect of a proposed dwelling in Coronation Street. Applications for borough water supply were granted to Messrs P. H. Boyd, T. L. Wood, and R. P. Harris. Mr G. Shewan, a county resident on Timaru Road, applied for an extraordinary water supply. It was decided to draw Mr Slrewan’s attention to a resolution of tho Council deciding not to grant further water surlily to' county residents. Tho Mayod said that tho borough Foreman had reported that good sand nas to he procured at tho Waihao rivor, and had advised the Council to call tenders for 80 yards. It was decided to advertise for tenders, acceptance of which was left to the Mayor, town clerk, and Councillor Robinson. TAXI STAND. In connection with tho taxi stand, the previous resolutions standing on tho Council records placing them in Queen Strcot were rescinded, after which the Mayor moved tho follou r ing: “That this Council having had it forced upon its notice that tho taxi stand was no credit to tho town, and having many complaints of the conduct at the stand, found it necessary to call tho taxi-drivers to a conference. After tin's conference, where every opportunity for. free, discussion, was given,'certain re-' filiations were drawn up. This provided that taxi-cabs should bo kept clean and in repair, and that taxidrivers should bo suitably and respectably dressed, " and'that the stand should not bo made a place where loitering was I encouraged or taxi-cabs cleaned and repaired. These simplo and necessary regulations were resented by tho stand, and that resentment was carried to annoying lengths. Ultimately this took • tho form of a preposterous prosecution of the Mayor, which was dismissed by the Magistrate in a strongly-worded lecture to the taximan. Reviewing all tho circumstances and conditions, this Council is convinced that the best interests of the whole public will not be served by permitting central Queen Street to bo longer used as a site for a taxi stand.” Councillor Robinson seconded the motion, wliich was earned unanimously. TV hen the question of a new site camp up, a longthv debate fnl'owod, the outcome of which n r as that it was derided to place the taxi stand in Glasgow Street. fi.l feet back from tlio ; Queen Street footpath.

OTHER BUSINESS. Councillor Paul reported that the. sceptic tank was working very well, in fact it was working bettor than it had for a very long time. Everything was very satisfactory. General accounts amounting to £290 19s Gd wore passed for payment. ~ The report of tlio Finance Committee was adopted. On the report of the Reserves Committee, the Mayor asked if the Reserves Committee could place another, two swings at the Shearman _ Street end of Victoria Park, lie said that

on a sports day two swings in the Park W Com.cmSr&ill ami Smithed thorn would ho no object .on if tluj could get the lamp-posts The report was adopted.