CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7827, 20 August 1904, Page 7

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Meeting of Council.

The monthly meeting of the Council •Of tho Masterton Chamber of Commerce was held in Messrs Lowes and lorns' Farmers' Boom, yesterday afternoon. There were present: Messrs C. E.

Daniell (President), Donald Donald, E. E. Chamberlain, E. T. Holmes, J. G. C. Summerell, J. Elliott, J. Keith, H. A. Fannin, J. D, Cruickshank and E. H. Waddington. Apologies for absence wero received from Messrs M. Caselberg, W. B. Chcnnclls and F. H. Wood.

The Treasurer reported a credit balance of £5d 6s Gd.

When the minutes of the last meeting were read Mr Elliott protested against

the reference to the Borough roads being

to the town. He considered roads compared favourably "Wffh those of most other towns in tho ■Colony. With the river metal they wove using it was ituposible to make better road?, and when they had spoken-of procuring machinery to crush metal they had met with general opposition. Mr Daniell said he was still dissatisfied. Lincoln-road especially was in a very discreditable state, and in wet weather was a sea of mud.

Mr Holmes referred to the street

•sweeper being " kept in the museum," except at rare intervals, when the mud was swept into the gutters and loft for days for unwary pedestrians to step into.

Mr Elliott said that if the sweeper was used so often as some people would like, the would soon sweep the whole of the metal off the road.

The minutes were confirmed

A letter was received from the County •Clerk (Mr F. G. Moore) stating that the letter from the Secretary of the Chamber asking the Council to require the owners •of land between the two bridges to remove their fences to the proper boundary, had been laid before the -Council, and instructions given for the request to be given effect to. Tbe quarterly meeting of members Jβ? held at tbe conclusion of the Counwhen formal business was ■transacted.