BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1929, Page 5

BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

MEETING OF MASTERTON COUNCIL. i DISPOSAL OF DUCKS. The monthly meeting of the Masterton Borough Council was held last Evening. There were present: The Mayor {Mr. T. Jordan), Councillors A. Pletcher, C. H. Anderson, H. J. O’Leary, T. Jenkins, H. M. Peacock, H. H. Daniell, A. Rippon, E. F. Barton and <l. B. MeClymont. It was reported that the suspension bridge leading to the Public Hospital ifrom the Park was owned by the Connteil. A letter was received from the Old Boys* Football Club asking for the use Of the Oval on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for practice during the coming season. The matter was referred to Tthe Park Committee, with power to act. The Masterton Harrier Club was granted the use of the dressing room in the Park for the season, on the same terms as last year. The New Zealand Military Forces are to be advised that the council has accepted the plaque and scroll, etc., connected with the late John Harrison, and that they will be placed in the reading room. Councillors Fletcher and Peacock and the Town Clerk were authorised to purchase books up to an amount covering the credit in the library account. Owing to the accumulation of ducks •on the lake, the Town Clerk was instructed to write to the Acclimatisation Society advising it that the council had fifty for sale, and asking if the society had any objection to their disposal. ■* In reply to a circular letter from the Napier Gas Company regarding the payment of a levy to the "Board of Trade, the council entered a protest against making a payment of 12s. 6d. permillion cubic feet for the whole year. In reply to Mr. L. T. Daniell's inquiry regarding the connecting of his property with gas, the council stated that it was prepared to do so, provided he paid for five years an annual .charge of ten per cent, on the capital expenditure, about £9O, and that he guaranteed to remain a consumer for five years, for each new consumer connected, Mr. Daniell’s ten per cent payment to bo reduced by one year. Anoffer to sell to the Borough a strip of lan dat the corner of Queen Street and Worksop Road for £6OO was not entertained. A request from ratepayers in Waltons Avenue to have something done to their street was left in the hands of the engineer. The council’s approval of Mr. H. H. Daniell's subdivisions! plan for land between the two Waipoua River bridges was given, subject to the terms of the Borough Solicitor’s opinion.