PATEA NOTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19007, 7 May 1924, Page 8

PATEA NOTES

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The annual general meeting of the parishioners of St. George’s Church took place on the 30th inst., there being a fair attendance of members. The vicar, Rev. H. Goertz, presided. The annual balance-sheet was read and adopted. Reports from the Lad'cs’ Guild and the several Sunday Schools were read and adopted.

The following office-bearers were elected: Vicar’s warden, Mr C. R. Honeyfield; people’s warden, Mr T. E. Roberts; vestry, Messrs Sheild, Tarrant, Glenny, Ramsbottom, Grainger, Ormsby and Corfe; auditor Mr R. W. Hamerton.

The Patea senior footballers journeyed to Kaponga on Saturday last and suffered defeat at the hands of the home team by 12 points to 6, after a good game. At the Borough Council meeting on Monday evening Cr. Kerrisk moved a motion standing in his name to havt the business of the General Purposes and Electric Light and Drainage < Committees open to the press. In speaki ig to his motion, Cr. Kerrisk stated tluu when the matter was previously before the Council the principal objection taken to it appeared to be on account of throwing the business of the Finance Committee open to the public. He had, in his present motion, cut out the Imance Committee, and he hoped it would now be acceptable to the Council. He felt sure that the apathy displayed by townspeople in borough affairs was due in a large measure to the system of doing every thing in committee and thereby preventing the public gathering any information as to what was going on. The motion was lost, on a division, by 3 votes to 6.

The question of the right of tne building inspector to issue building permits without first obtainng the Council’s sanction to the proposed work, was debated at the last meeting of the Council, some councillors feeling t’.at the Council was being ignored and the by-laws made ridiculous. It was eventually decided to inform the inspector that no permits were to be issued until plans and specifications of proposed work had been submitted to and approved by the Council. The pollution of the small stream at Kakaramea by the Kakaramea Dairy Company has been occupying the attention of the dairy company, adjoining owners and solicitors for some weeks past and on Monday last the Borough Council (who own the property immediately adjoining where the trouble started and gave the dairy company permission to iyn the alleged offensive matter through its dam), received a notification from Messrs Halliwell, Spratt and Thomson, solicitors for the Misses Williamson (owners of property through which this creek flows) that it had been joined as co-defendants with the dairy company. The question of how to finance the erection of the new Nurses’ Home has been settled—the Patea County and Borough Councils having decided to levy a rate for this purpose. It is anticipated that the rate will only have to be struck for two years, and it is to be hoped that that will be ail, for the rates in the borough are now ovei 5s in the £.

I understand that Mr Wily, of the staff of Messrs Roberts and Kingsford, solicitors of this town, has decided to commence the practice of his profession at Pukekohe.