HUNTERVILLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19988, 3 November 1927, Page 3

HUNTERVILLE

TOWN BOARD MEETING [ Special • Chroclels ” Service. ] The monthly meeting of the Hunterville Town was held on Tuesday night. Commissioner W. H. Bowick, chairman, presided over the following: Messrs E. A. Gordon, B. Thomas, F. Berry, C. B. Gregory, and W. Whyte. The chairman reported mat Tie had met the engineer of the WanganuiBangitikei Electric Power Beam, and discussed the matter of the section on which the Power Board’s transformers were erected ,and that a very satisfactory settlement had been arranged, the Power Board agreeing to the entry from Porewa Road and erecting a fence along the back. A letter from Mr Robert King for permission to rent Section 77 for grazing was received and the clerk was instructed to notify aim that the section would be put up for tender as a Glasgow lease. The Board 's solicitor suggested that the rent on the Glasgow lease be £1 10s for the first seven years £3 for the next seven and £4 10s for the third seven. The suggestion of the solicitor was adopted and the value of the buildings erected on the property is to be £6OO, to be erected within two years. Applications for building permits were received from Mr Hyde (Children’s Home) and Mr King (Old People’s Home). —The clerk reported that be had granted these and his actions were endorsed. A letter from the Board’s solicitor detailing steps to be taken regarding the dimunition of part of High Street was read and it was decided that a public meeting be called at the Town Board’s office on Tuesday, December 6. Commissioner Gordon stated that it was wasting money to go on with the footpaths before the kerbing was done and suggested that permission be given the foreman to spend a certain sum of money on materials for the kerbing. The chairman stated that he considered it would be best to form a committee to go into details, and the chairman and Messrs Gordon. O’Brien and Gregory be formed a committee, with instructions to have both sides of Bruce Street kerbed and channelled as soon as weather permits. ' Domain Board. Th© chairman reported that the Town Board staff had been too busy to attend filling up holes and levelling parts of the Domain, and it had decided to employ outside labour to carry on the work outlined at the last meeting. Al] the materials required had been inspect I'd, were near, and were easily obtainable. He also recommended removing the ladies’ cloak room from the old tennis courts to behind the grand stand, and the dismantling of the old shed at the back of the pavilion.