Burial Board be requested to direct attention to the subject and standing of the compensation fees, and empower the Board to submit a case to counsel thereon. After some further remarks of a rather angry nature by two or three of the warm-tempered members, the motion was carried.
Cemetery Cottages. At the meeting in August, the Burial Board recommended that the plans prepared by the Surveyor for erecting two new cottages at the Cemetery at an estimate of £250 should be adopted. Considerable scepticism was shewn as to the possibility of building them at the price named, but Coun. Picknell, who moved that the report should be adopted, remarked that tenders might be obtained, and if they acceded the estimate they could be thrown aside. On the strength of this questionable suggestion as to how those who tendered were to be served, the report was adopted. With what result the proceedings at the next month’s meeting will show.
The Tenders. At the September meeting the Burial Board reported that they had received several tenders for building the two cottages, the sums ranging from £360 10s. to £432. As the Surveyor’s estimate was only £250, the committee were unable to recommend the adoption of any tender. Remarks were passed on the great discrepancy and an understanding arrived at that a revised and cheaper plan would be considered.
The Combined Post Office. At the meeting on the first of March an official reply to the memorial of the Council was received to the effect that having regard to the complaints made from time to time of the misdirection of letters and the confusion arising therefrom, and to the fact that Hastings and St. Leonards at one time divided by vacant ground, were now united, a chief office would be established for the whole borough. Every facility would be given to the inhabitants of St. Leonards by placing the Post Office in as central a position as possible, by maintaining a Receiving Office and a Money-Order Office within the St. Leonards limits, and by erecting Pillar Letter Boxes to afford them all proper facilities for expediting their correspondence. – Coun. Winter trusted that now the Postmaster General had given his decision, the great controversy would cease. He would move that the letter be acknowledged and entered on the minutes. – Coun. Gausden would move as an amendment that the words “and that the Council suggest to the Postmaster-General that the new office should be called the Hastings and St. Leonards Post Office” be added. – Coun. Putland, in seconding the amendment, remarked that if the Council were desirous of promoting friendship and goodwill in the two districts -
