AIL Resolutions Carried with a Quorum for Special Meeti Minimum of Discussion but no 1g: Support for Council on Waterworks Issue The annual meeting of ratepayers, which took place on Wedn day afternoon in the Town Hall, pas: ed off quietly. The total number of voters present was only 399, these representing 622 votes. This was far short of the number required to form a quorum to deal with the special resolutions regarding child Jabour and the printed matter by-
Mr. J. H. Teesdale drew the' attention of the meeting to the case of Shantung Road Hospital, pointing out the inadequacy and [precarious natur its income, and stating that in spite of grants jof Tls. 5,000 from the Municipal Council and Tie, 1,000 from the French Council the past two years had shown a deficit of Tls. 3,945
Jaw, a total of 914 being necess ry|and Tls. 718). As against the for' such. a purpose, and in conse quence these could not be brought up for consideration. This left the meeting with an agenda containing few. outstanding matters, and came to a conclusion about five Hgrant of Ts. 6,000, what were call-Jed "community' eases" had cost the hospital $38,584 in 1924, Sir Skinner Turner was elected chairman of the meeting, and the "others on the platform were Messrs Fessenden, E. F. Mackay, A. D. Bell, 8. Sakuragi, A. B. Ba Massey and V. G. Lyman, mem: bers of the retiring Council, Mr.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.