BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 502, 4 September 1890, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The Borough Council met on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor and Crs Dunlop, Lewis, Lucas, McLernon. Hepburn, Taylor, Coleman, Harding, and Whinray. Mr J. T. Evans wrote asking the Council to provide an outlet for the drainage brought through the culvert from the east side of Childers Road, on the ground near the Hermitage.—The Council decided that it was not within their province to do the work. The Road Overseer, in his report, recommended that the north side of the Taruheru bridge be gravelled— cost about £2 12s. The new screw on the Turanganui bridge had been removed and returned to Napier, to have the centre pin altered to a square thread. The repairs to the road were ordered to be done.

The Special Committee reported having met Mr Richardson, the owner of the Fanny, with tbo result that the amount claimed had been paid in full. Cr Taylor asked if the Town Clerk had received a license fee for the shop that had been opened in Gladstone road by a Chinaman.—The Mayor explained that the Council could not demand a fee unless the shop was occupied from week to week, or taken for less than three months.

The followed accounts were passed :—T. Burns £3 8s 3d, Brown and Smail! £64 2s 6d, Bridges account £4 53 BJ, Gisborne Standard £7 18a 6d, A. Muir £4 16?, Gas Company £22 17a 6d, Boylan and Co. £1 Ils. Common, Shelton and Co. £2 Ba, Whitby and Partington £1 17s 41, Harbor Board £3 19a 2d, D. Murray £2 Bs, Clayton and Sawyer £1 12s.