The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-31 00:00:00

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CJMMISSIONEUS' MEETING.

usuHl monthly meeting of this body was
bad on Monday last, Mr. W. J. Turney plesiding
There were also present Messrs. Edwards, Hughes,
Woolley, Kelly, North, Billingham, Green, _Lek,
Stringer, Perkin, Scott, Griffin, Allsop, Hicklin and
llaske w.

The Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting
aul they were confirmed.
FINANCE COMMITTEE..

ri his committee repotted that the treasurer's
balances on, the several accounts at this date to be
as folows :—Highway account, due to Treasurer,
.6(58 18s. lid; Impr“vement Account, due from
Treasurer' £290 9s 21; Urban Sanitary Account,
due from Treasurer, £B9 12s sd. The committee
Laying examirr=d the seve. at accounts recommended
that they be paid :—On the Highway Account £6O
Os Gd. ; Improvement Account £l2 3s 3d ; Urban
Sanitary Account £36 15s 4d.
It was proposed by Mr. Turney and seconded by
Mr. Edwards that tie report be adopted.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE.
MEDICAL OFFICERS OF iIEALTII REPORT.
Number of deaths regisur,d from June 21st, to
July 19th, 1880, 11 viz :-5 males and 6 female.
Number of births reOstered• in the above-named
Feriod, 18 viz : )1 males, 7 females.
Thera is no entry in the Medical Officer's of
health Journal.

TOWN OFFICER'S REPORT.—Nuisances remaining
from last month 16; reported during the mouth 25;
41. Removed, old 6, new 17.
NIGHT, SOIL REMOVAL. 94 ashpits. and one
cessi-001, belonging to 231 houses, have b..en
cleauscn. Number of loads, 205.
A letter from the ; Steurbridge Volunteer Fire
Brigade, dated the 21st ins'., Was laid beLre. your
ci‘iiitnittee, as to an annual contribution of £lO.
he committee recommend that .210 be paid to the
brigade.
It was proposed by Mr. Hughes and seconded by
Mr. Woolley that the report be received.

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The Chairman called the attention of the Board
to the fact nut ,the Medical Officer of Health had
not kit nt in the monthly report, and considered it
an oinission on his pait. If he should b.? absent
fr-,ru home at any time he ought to empower some-.
'lse to attend to his duties.. He did not think
th re had been any report for the last three montt.s;
he. was quite sure thera had not been for two
months.

r .Mr. Allsopp was of opinion; that Dr. Eagar was
treating the Board too bad.
The Chairman said . the Medical Officer was paid
to report to the Board and should send in his report
from month to month. If he could not do so he
should seod a note to the Clerk, stating the fact

tine of the members said he considered that Dr.
Eager should be called upon to resign if he cou;d
not attt.nd to his duties.
The Chairman ni,,ved that the ;Clerk should send
Dr. Eagar a letter, calling his attention to the
omissions of his duties.
This was seconded by Mr. Ick and carried.
The Clerk read a letter he had received from Mr.
H€nry Turuey, Captain of tilt Fire Brigade, asking
them to subscribe £lO annually for the mainten-
ence of the brigade.
On the inoti:ln of Mr Hughes, seconded by Mr.
Woolley, it was unanimously decided to give the
£lO asked for, and th,.it a vote of thanks be given
the brigade for their valuable services.
Some plans were sent to the Board by Mr. Robin-
son as to some new erections in the Heath Road.
'The plans were ordered to be sent back, and the
Clerk was directed t; call the attention of Mr.
Robinson to the bye-laws.
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irhe report of the Auditors waslread, stating that
they had examined the accounts and found them to
be correct. They called the attention of rho Board
to one or two items.

jlt was proposed by Mr. Green and seconded by
Mr. Ick Oat they be pail £3 3s each.
A Highway Rate of is 6d and an Itapnvement
Rate of is 6d in the pound were signed, to ever a
period of twelve mouths and to be collected by two
instalments.

Mcsnrs A Freer, E. White, S. A. Brooks, and
G. Moody attended the Board in reference tn a foot-
bridge._

Ali Freer said they attended as a deputation from
the members of 'St. John's Church to urge upon the
Commissioners the importance of having a earriase
drive at the side of St. John's Church, insteacl'of
a footbridge over the railwsy, as was proposed
He thougat the chur h worthy of a better ro td If
the bridge was to he erscted e was of opinien that
it would te a great nuisance to the shereh. A
number of children would get on the bridge and it
would be a nuisance instead of a benefit. He
thought it would be better to the general public
to have a carriage road, and-he hoped the Commis-
sioners would do all in their power to support them
in getting the road.
Mr. Brooks said he endorsed all that Mr. Frer
had said, and was willing to give the 1; nd on the
Parkfielcl estate, which Mrs. Akroyd had previously
promised.
. The deputation then withdrew.
The Chairman: Gentlemen, in pursuasce of my
no'ice, I now beg to move that theresolutihn passed
May 31st, be rescinded. It is not a pleasnt duty
to me, as probably the youngest member of this
Bo ird. , to take this course, bcim.r in direct opposi-
tion to your ta-chairman, Mr. Hughes. I h hve
heard Mr. Hughes say at tia se Board meetings
thst he hoped "You would not challenge him" on
certain business under discussion. Now, gentle-
men, \sheerer may be ysur chairman, unless every
riltuber cf this Bodrd not only feels thoroughly at
liberty to express his views upon any question that
may come before him, but act upon them, these
meetings are a waste of time and improvements and
progress of the town generally are out of the ques-
tion. lhere are two sub-committees appointed to
investigate and report upon this question. viz : the
desirability of a footbridge on the opening up of a
road to pass St. John's Church. 1 have been on
beth committees and the opinion on both of them
has been divkletl, in fact had all the members of Vas
list sub—coannittse been present, the recominenda-
tion to this B tard woul I in all probability have
been reversed, end I therefore respectfully affirm
seat the reeommendatien of the committees t h this
I3oard do nut express the wishes of the majority of
this Board. Hence my notice to ask yeu to revoke
the reselution passed while I was in America. There
are various reasoris for my opposing the erection of
a footbridge and supporting the opening up of a
to St. John's Church, but I very much regret
that Mr. Hughes so far forgot himself at tha
lttots sl3
t'st'lb-comithi.ne meeting oa this business as to
impute to me what I call a dishonourable motive,
Viz e The serving of a friend." Gentlemen, as a
member of the Stourbriclge Improvement Commissnners and their chairman, I have no friends while
my official ditties, and so long as I am
dainsehrna'bgeiilg
roe this Beard I hope no one will be able
iruth'ully that I am sierificing tne
fi the town for private friendships. My
interestst o say o f n°
reasons then, gentlemen, for asking you to support
i= res(in
• di.. n this resolution are; briefly as fol-
lows: N
F ay—Teat a footbridge, although 1 t
would be restorhra an ancient footpath, is not es_
quiree under the present circumstances for the a .-
commodation of the ratepayers in that neighbour-
hood, seeing that there is a good carriage 10 td
under the railway within a very short dis Since of
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athaat ittljviaing thovat end a §c. Johu's Ohurc,A