RAETIHI.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19601, 28 June 1926, Page 2

RAETIHI.

- ] BOROUGH COUNCIL. ] The adjourned meeting of the Bor- < ough Council was held on Thursday; 1 present—The Mayor (Air W. H. Sand t ford), a.nd Councillors Ash well, Sigley, i Fagg, Anderson. Reiper, Windle, oa. w- 5 thray and Laeoli. The principal busi- 1 ness of the meeting was to consider a special report presented by the 1 engineer, giving various suggestions to < augment the electric revenue without i peanalising the individual consumers, i Il was resolved to adopt the following < charges, to come into force on j July I:—Water—The water heating. 24 hours, service £4 10s Od per annum 600 watt element; extra wattage at 15s per 100 watts per annum, or if a booster element is installed with a change over switch with the stove the 1 charge be per unit as recorded on heater meter. Heating and cooking.— Electric current for heating and cooking to be charged for the first 12 ' units per month. 3d per unit nctjfor the next 24 units per month. 2d per unit net; all above 36 units per month per unit. The clerk reported he had inspected the boarding houses. He was instructed to notify the proprietors that their . licenses were over-due. Councillor Sigley gave notice to move that the Seddon Street road work carried out with loan money be suspended, during the winter months. STOCK SALE. Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., held their fortnightly stock sale at their Raetihi yards on Friday. There was a yarding of 2000 sheep, mostly ewes in lamb, and a good yarding of cattle. Sheep did not met with as keen competition as at previous sales, but the bulk of the yarding was disposed of before the close of the day. Cattle, if anything, were slightly.better and practically a total clearence. Prices realised were as follows: —Mixed sex lambs 14s; small ditto 10s; culls 9s 4d; m.a. ewes, in lamb to Romney rams, 235; good s.m. ditto, 17s 2d, 18s, 18s 6d, 19s and 20s; poorer ditto, 14s lOd, 15s, 15s 9d; Cull ditto, 12s 6d to 13s; small two-tooths, in lamb, 235, to 23s 6d; better sorts 255; forward j cows, £4 17s 6d; light fat cows £5 ss; empty ditto, £2 ss; 2 year heifers, £2; 20 months steers £3 13s Gd; small 24 year steers £4. There was no football played at Raetihi on Saturday on account of the i various teams playing away from home.