Salaries. — Coun. Deudney moved, and Ald. Clement seconded that a committee be formed of the whole Council to take into consideration the salaries of the employees, under the Municipal Act and the Public Health Act. He believed that the Board generally were unacquainted with the number of their employees and their remuneration.
Sundry Transactions. — At a special meeting the following business was transacted: — £195 to be transferred to the Local Board Sinking Fund; that the pier dues be collected half yearly; that three capstans be moved six yards lower down in consequence of accumulated shingle; that as £5 had been offered by contiguous inhabitants towards Mr. Spice’s price for the site of his rope-shop, the other £40 be paid to him; that fresh ground for his rope shop be let to him at 1/- a year; that Mr. William Winter be Inspector of Nuisances in place of the late Mr. Thwaites; and that Mr. Wyatt’s proposition to alter a path across the railway be not entertained.
Mr. Gant’s Plan, at the meeting on Sept. 3rd, of the entire district under the Local Board was produced. It was beautifully executed on a scale of two feet to a mile. The size was 5 feet to 10 ft. 6 in. Three smaller plans, 3 ft by 2 ft showed those portions of the district containing buildings not comprised in the plan ordered by the late Commissioners. Coun. Deudney said the boundaries were not correct, but could be easily altered. Coun. Ross thought accuracy very desirable, as last time when walking the boundary of the borough, great difficulty was experienced in consequence of it not having been previously gone over for a hundred years. In the said plan the township of St. Leonards was left blank. Coun. Deudney thought that town ought to be included, which Mr. Gant said would cost £40 extra, but which charge ought not to fall on St. Leonards, as that town had a map of its own, and the present map being for the Local Board. The entire expense so far had been £200 to the Local Board and £90 previously to the Hastings Commissioners. When lithographed, as contemplated, there would be an additional cost of £100. Coun. Williams thought that when St. Leonards was included, the map would become a municipal document, and that St. Leonards should bear its proportion of expense. The Mayor (Mr. Hickes) opined that St. Leonards could not legally be charged for that which only belonged to the Local Board, and Coun. Ginner was of the same opinion. Coun. Deudney was decidedly against St. Leonards paying for what its people did not order and did not want. Coun. Beck also objected. On the motion of Coun. Rock, St. Leonards was to be inserted, and the question of expense to be left open.
Repairing Roads. — The Surveyor having applied, through the Roads Committee for 120 yards of stone and 300 yards of broken boulders; at a cost of £300, Coun. Deudney objected to the use of flint, as being bad for horses feet, and causing an unpleasant dust when pulverized. The best piece of road was that which was made of hard blue stone by Mr. Burton’s father. The Surveyor knew that piece of good road, but as there would be greater traffic where the stone was now wanted, he was anxious -
