The Mayor's New Loan Proposals

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11974, 18 September 1906, Page 2

The Mayor's New Loan Proposals

TO THE EDTTOB

Sir, — The. absurdity of the loan proposals as outlined in yesterday's issue of your contemporary must be apparent to every ratepayer. Some time ago the late Mayor (Mr Bignell) obtained the consent of "the ratepayers to an expenditure of ,£6OOO to lay tar.'nfacadam on Taupo Quay and Victoria Avenue. Owing to the dillydallying over the tramway question by the present Mayor anil' Council the "improvement of the streets mentioned has been hung up indefinitely. "Why 1 not settle the tramways question first, and then would be the proper time to bring forward new loan proposals if required. It apepars to me that the Mayor ha* suddcntly 'awalte'he<yW r the ftu-t that his administration sofaatfbns '!>een anything but brilliant, or even businesslike ov in accordance with the numberless promises made during^the recent .IVfayoral election — I am, etc.,

"DEEDS, NOT WORDS."

The Registrar of Industrial Unions notifies that application has been made to cancel the registration of the Wellington Printers' Machinists and Lithographers' Industrial Union.

The poll of ratepayers taken on Thursday on a proposal to raise a loan of £1000 for the purpose of forming footpaths in Apiti township was carried by 29 votes against 2.

The Lyttelton Times publishes the following from its Wellington correspondent, dated September 15th: — "I understand that the registrars throughout the colony are to be instructed to prepare for an election." A set of stock sheets of about 30 pages are advertised for in another column. These were lost a few days ago. They are of value to the owners, but to no one else. A reward of one pound will be given to the person who return's them to this office. , The ballot for four appropriations of £150 each in the People's Building Society was held last night in the Society's offices, and resulted as follows: — The first marble drawn was No. 430, the owner of which, being the holder. of two shares, is entitled to £300. The next drawn was 734, which also carried a loan of ,£3OO.

At a meeting of the Patea Polo Club on Saturday night Mr E. P. Symes was elected captain, Dr Simmons vice-captain, and Mr W. Rigg treasurer. The paddock committee reported Mr A. Palmer, junr., had placed at the disposal of the Club one of his paddocks, which would make a first-class ground. Significant paragraph from the monthly report of the Chairman of the Hawke's Bay Education Board at its last meeting : "Mr C. Owen, who accepted temporary appointment as teacher at Motu, has resigned, owing to the only available accomodation costing more than the salary attached to the position.

According to the Auckland papers timber merchants have been notified by the Kauri Timber Company of a rise, amounting in gome cases to 2s per 1000 ft, which came into force on Ist September, and as a consequence prices have increased accordingly. . The increase in cost is ascribed to the lessening quantity of kauri avail-, able.

A dispute between a farmer and a machine owner, as to the- price of cutting chaff, was decided by the Stipendiary Magistrate at Timaru last week, who found that 4d for sheaf chaff under 100 bags and 3|d for 100 to 300 bags, were reasonable prices. The farmer had declined to _pay more than 3£d and 3d, because he had never paid more before.

The Chief Justice yesterday, sitting in chambers, heard the application of Mr Lloyd to have administration of the will of the late Joseph- Soler granted to Joseph Soler, junior. The application was adjourned to Wellington on the 13th October, .the applicant in the meantime to find sureties of at least ,£3OOO that he would 'administer the estate properly. - A passenger by the express on Wednesday had an experience at the Woodville railway refreshment rooms which he is not likely to forget. He had just sat down to lunch. A lady behind him was handed a cup of scalding hot tea, and a dog suddenly jumped up on her and capsized the cup. The whole of the contents went down the passenger's back, which was very badly scalded. Needless to say, he did not continue his meal. — Examiner.

. At a meeting of the Executive of the proposed Manawatu Court at the N.Z. Exhibition held at Palmerston yesterday, the President (Mr. J. A. Nash) said the position was that they required .£l5O more to enable the Manawatu Court to be established. They were shortly to have gone on allotting space, but considering' now matters now stood, it had been decided not to do so until after that day's meeting. The want of interest shown in the scheme by the public and business people had left them in a very awkward position. After some discussion the following motion was carried; "That a meeting of the original committee and of proposed exhibitors be called on the 18th inst.,- to take into consideration the abandonment of the Manawatu Court at the New Zealand Exhibition, the forfeiting of the deposit already made to the Executive of jfcbe, Exhibition, and the refunding, to local bodies of amounts allocated, pro rata, less. the amount expended by way of deposits and in organising and preliminaries j and the question of returning deposits which they have already made."