place. The Mayor and some other members endeavoured to restore order, and at last the belligerents refrained from further exhibition of vulgarity. Coun. Winter’s amendment being carried by a large majority, Mr. Laing was precluded from accepting the Eversfield appointment.
Fee – Farm Rents. At the same meeting, Ald. Ross called the Clerk’s attention to the Fee-Farm rents, some of which would very soon run out, so that steps should be taken to prevent their loss to the Corporation.
A Question of Drainage. At the April meeting the Roads Committee’s recommendation was adopted not to comply with Mr. Gant’s request to drain the houses at the Archery Ground, in consequence of the land and the roads not having been dedicated. Another letter was then received from Mr. Gant, stating that the drainage was not four or five houses merely, but for fourteen, all of which would be built within the next eighteen months, and reminding the Board that if no drainage were provided within the Board’s district the owners had powers to make cesspools. – Coun. Putland maintained that it was Mr. Gant’s duty to put in the drains, and that he only talked about cesspools to frighten them. In these days no one would be able to let houses at £100 a year that had cesspools to them. He did not think they had put down a single drain to new property since they had adopted the Local Board Act. [But they would have had to do it at Stanhope Place, had the St. Leonards Commissioners assented to their request to be allowed to drain into the St. Leonards main sewer at a charge on the assessment, notwithstanding their first refusal]. Coun. Bromley could not understand the principle on which they acted. He thought they were just as much justified in doing the drainage now asked for as they were in doing it in Havelock road, thus benefiting the railway company at the expense of the town. He referred, of course, to the resolution passed at the same meeting to lay down a twelve inch pipe in Havelock road, 220 yards in length at an estimated cost of £110, the expense of the same to be charged to the account of Permanent Works. [Doubtless there were others who as little understood the principle by which the Local Board were guided in many matters as did Coun. Bromley, inconsistent though he sometimes was himself].
The Lock-up Surgeon. At the June meeting, Mr. Underwood was appointed surgeon to the Lock-up, in place of Walter Duke, deceased, at £5 per year. At this meeting Mr. Putland was absent through illness.
