MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 155, 29 October 1872, Page 5

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

♦ —— -\ general meeting was held in the Council Chamber last Thursday evening. The Mayor, and Councillors Dawkins, Marsh, and Wright ! were present. i The Mayor reported having granted the TownClerk leave of absence to enable him to visit Dunedin. Minutes of previous meeting were then read i and confirmed. Cr. Marsh consented to perform the duties of Acting T«wn-f 'lerk.

Copies of outgoing correspondence addressed to the undermentioned pers ms since the previous meeting were read ami approved,—viz. 'The Chief Postmaster, Dunedin ; Messrs MacKellar aid Imrrcs, assessors ; Secretary to Library Committee; Mr J. A. Preshaw ; Mr J. Wright, contractor for repairing town race; Mr W. A. Lews, District Engineer (2); and W. H. Cutten, Dunedin.

The inward correspondence consisted of letters from the Chief Postmaster, the Secretary to Library Committee, and Town-Clerk of Lawrence. The Mayor stated that whilst in Dunedin ho had interviewed the Chief Postmaster in reference to getting the up-mail which leaves Dunedin on Friday morning delivered in Cromwell on the Saturday night. The Postmaster held out but little hope of any alteration being made in the present arrangement until the termination of the existing contact with Chaplin and Co. at the close of IST.'T—He {the Mayor) had also called <m Mr Cutten, acting Secretary for Lands and Win ks, wnh the view of ascertaining whether the Covermnent contemplated inviting t .aiders for the proposed horse-track to Quartz Reef Point. Mr (kitten's reply was to the effect that so many works were in preparation by the Provinci d Engineer’s department that they had not yet found time to prepare plans and specifications for the Qmrtz Reef Point track ; but that the maDer would receive attention at the

earliest possible opportunity. In answer to (Jr. Wiighc, T lie Mnvor state 1 that the Public Works i omiuitfoe nad not yet prepared a report on the sn eject o water supply, chiefly on account of the fact tli it the rates of carriage from Dunedin

were not vet low enough to warrant them in ordering fb<> water-pipes to ho sent on ; and partly, also, because the Corporation was not •jU’te prepared to carry out anv extensive scheme wtioh toe Committee might recommend for adoption. Messrs Briscoe and Co. were willing t) execute an outer for additional pipes at a percentage, but would not, owing to the fluctuations in the price of iron, undertake to supply them at a sta rd price. He (the Mayor) entertained hopes time the hilt introduced in (lie .Assembly hr Mr Vogel, to enable Municipal Corporations

t> Ixhtihv money inr tiie construe ion of waterworks, wmii.l one law. rs the Council would

Tv In? enabled to carry out an effective sc'ie n« of v. iter supply m on nn equitable basis

as ru_;aided e-st. Ho might a.ld that Mr Taylor hj id a 4roc, I to hj md over tin; ware - hpes to the ■ 'orp •>•;! no at < nee, ami to accept payment on die Ist of -1 I'itnirv.

I - "i' i lien ics'dvod local 7 for tenders for c >nv ;vina tan pipes from Lainediu to Cromwell, at per i ■ n .\c he -in ryes! ion of Cr. Marsh, it was resolved to telooaph to ins Honor the Superintendent, •and : l-o to Mr hell, representing to them that as Mr \\ . 1,. nmpson had returned to the Proviu e. a: d tint as it was therefore probable that soin ■ chan ,v would he nn>de in the Carden shins, ■he Provin-inl Hcwrnment sh-uid t ike steps’to place a Pendent dm at 1 rn. The Acting Townd’l era was requested to ■•vri i* hi the Secretary for Lands am' Wotkt, request in ' th i.r the contirnntion of the main s ! rc> t i >wt \ardi he at once form a \ as from tint ’ reet the permanent ! 'v.rs wol have fo he* aT.cn, and in -+ h ;>■ (’:Tv vill hu-elo the Council in effectin jf other ini orovem nils i.i the town It was also resolved "hat the Chief Postal istcr hoarani wri f tea toon ta i suhj ret of the Idnneuia an 1 Cro n .veil null servi -o. Idle Corporation Au liters’ fees, amounting to" €1 Is. each, were ordered to he p.ai.L The Council thou adjourned.