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THEN INSIST ON PEERLESS GAS AND CASTROL OIL â€" YOU WANT POWER. YOU THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 1929 A. G. SAVAGE Richmond Hill COOPER .mtario APPOINTMENT OF AUDITORS IS CAUSE OF HEATED DICUSSION AT The matter was introduced by Depu- ty Reeve Padget who asked if the auditors had commenced their work. Mr. Davison advised that the audit was nearly completed by McCoy & Co. Mr. Padget wanted to know on what authority they were working and he questioned the authority according to statute. Mr. Davison submitted that they were quite in order and that the inew auditors were for 1929. The ‘statutes were apparently necessary to isettle the discussion which had taken on a technical aspect and accordingly they were sent for. Mr. Padget wanted to know why the clerk had not informed the council at the last meetâ€" ing that such was the case. Markham township council meeting on Monday afternoon was featured by a lengthy discussion concerning the appointment of auditors which at cer- \tain stages developed into consider- ‘able heat and in which Deputy Reeve Padget and Clerk G.A.M. Davison istaged a hot verbal battle. At the ‘last regular meeting Messrs A. Summerfeldt and J. W. Perkins were appointed auditors, taking the place of McCoy & Co. chartered account. Iants of Toronto who have conducted ‘the audit in recent years. Apparentâ€" ly there was some misunderstanding as certain members thought that the auditors appointed at the last meeting were to audit the books of 1928 and others thought it was for the 1929 ac- counts. Lewis A. Stiver Is New Assessor - Deputy Reeve Padget Wants Change In Road Supt. Mr. Davisonâ€"I thought that you knew. The statutes were produced aner. Davison turned up the sections deal- ing with the appointment of the audi- tors and asked Mr. Padget to read them. Mr. Padget read several of the sections and pointed out that ac- cording to the section under which the ‘council was working the auditors ap- pointed at the January meeting should be for the previous year, 1928. Mr. Davison referred to other sections by which he claimed the action was quite Sin order, Mr. Padget â€" Yes but did you sit at the last meeting and not tell us that this audit was partly done? Mr. Davison â€" I thought that was known to every member of the council After the last meeting as man to man ‘and in a gentlemanly way I spoke to Mix Padget and told him the council had made a mistake as I felt that I Wanted men capable of auditing my books. Now what I want to know is what’s the object of bringing all this up now? Reeve Gohnâ€"Yes I guess I knew. That is the way it has been done ever since the investigation. The afidit_ ‘ors feel that they can give us a better audit that way. They come at diff- erent periods of the year. ~Councillor Smithâ€"I never heard tell of such a thing in all the time I’ve sat here. As Reeve you sat here know- ing this and never said a word to the rest of the council. Reeve Gohnâ€"I knew the way it has always been done as I thought every- one else did. I confess I didn’t know which section of the statute we were working under and if we’re wrong we~ ’ve been wrong every year, I have no brief for any auditor. I have only been in the office with them one or two occasions when I have been called in to maybe explain some account. Councillor Smithâ€"Oh be honest, you knew when we were doing it. Mr. Davisonâ€"I know I’m the ant of this municipality but I have to take anything only in a lemanly manner from you. My has been brought into this and defend myself. Reeve Gohnâ€"I knew we were doing as we always had done. The discus- 'sion coritinued at some length and the members ended up apparently about where they started. The byJaw Reeve Gohnâ€"If this is going to deâ€" velop into an acumonious discussion I think we’d better stop right here. Mr. PadgetéAs 'clerk it’s not a matter for you to discuss. You’re a paid servant of this township. Mr. Davisonâ€"Mr. Reeve you knew this audit was partially completed? Mr. Padgetâ€"You’re the clerk of this municipality. Mr‘. Davisonâ€"I know I’m clerk and you can’t :put me oilt or you would have had me out long ago and been in my shoes. Mr. Padgetâ€"I wouldn't take your ‘ob . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARKHAM TOWNSHIP COUNCIL serv- don ’t gent. name can passed at the last meeting was pro- duced and showed that the new audi~ ’tors were appointed for 1929. which Mwill mean that they will audit the books at the end of 1929 and the coun- ‘cil will probably accept the audit of 'McCoy & Co. for 1928 as they have done the work and the opinion was ex- ‘pressed that this entitled them to their pay. Incidently it was pointed out that Mr. Perkins one of the newly appointed auditors would be ineligible for the office if he did any business with the municipality as has been cus- tomary in the past. I Owing to the fact that A. J. Camp- lin did not accept the position of as- sessor for the east half of the town- 'ship given him at the last meeting there were three applications for the position. The applicants were Lew- is A. Stiver, A. R. Lewis and Jas. A. Gibson. Mr. Lewis Stiver was nomi- nated by Deputyâ€"Reeve R. L. Stiver who pointed out that this applicant Was a capable young man with a good education and he thought would make an excellent man for the job. Coun- ‘cillor Coakwell nominated Mr. Gib- son but on a vote Mr. Stiver received three votes from the council. When the estimates for roads for the year was mentioned Deputyâ€"Reeve Padget asked if a representative of the Department of Highways could be present at the next meeting. “I’m opposed to the present road superinâ€" tendent" he said” and I want him to know it as well as the rest of this council.” Mr. Padgebâ€"I don’t care, anyone from Hon. George S. Henry down. Reeve Gohn â€" Well who do you want? Reeve Gohnâ€"I don’t that he can give _us much information as to our expenditure on roads and bridges. Mr, Padgetâ€"Well he can tell us all he has to say in the matter of a superintendent. As an estimate for the Department the council fixed the sum of $43,500 as. the amount of the expenditure in 1929 on roads and bridges. This will be divided as follows, construct. ion $6000.; bridge construction $14,â€" 000.; road machinery $500.; road sup- erintendent $1000.; maintenance and repairs $22,000. Two letters of complaint were re- ceived concerning the roads in the Doncaster sub-division and the coun- oil was warned that they would be held responsible for any accident due to the deplorable condition of certain streets. It was claimed that as the street complained of was now a townâ€" 'ship road it should receive some atâ€" tention. This was the contention of Deputy-Reeve Padget who said howâ€" ever that he had no particular friends there. The council concurred in a resolution forwarded by the Ontario Municipal Association asking that the Province assume the whole cost of provincial highways constructed in the future. On motion on Messrs Padget and Smith the sum of $668.10 will be paid U.S.S. No. 2 and $62.80 to 8.8. No. 1 as their share of educational taxes of the Industrial Farm. The following accounts were order. ed to be paid;â€"Edgar Steckley 75‘ yards of gravel $150,; G. A. M. Daviâ€" son, express $1.30; A. & H. Wideman $4.83; Hydro Electric $9.47; Liberal Printing Co. $10.00; Willow Lake Garage, repairs to Fire Engine $18.13 Municipal World $36.14; McCaskey Systems adding machine $56.40; Mrs. M. A. Robinson, Gormley, 6 yards stone $3.00; A. Duncan, Unionville $17.75; R. G. Cunningham, Gormley $80.75; Wm. McDonald $525.; G. Hoo- ver, gravel $22.00; W. L. Rainey, Langstaff, gravel $161.25; Roy Lotton Unionville $7.20; Norman Lotton, Unionville $7.20; L. Middleton, salary for January $50.00. Deputy Reeve Stiverâ€"W ell I’m very sure I haven’t. Reeve Gohn â€" I know I haven’t. Councillor Smith â€" I don’t suppose I have. Councillor Coakwell â€"â€" If I have I don’t know them. ' THE LIBERAL. RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO Mr. Padget Wants Change in Road Appoint New Assessor Estimated Expenditure Apparently Friendless Superintendent Jack Strathdee. the very able winter sports director at the Cha~ teau Frontenac. his friends will be pleased to learn, is losing weight. Jack runs a summer camp at French River in the fishing "season and he took his {present job for the reason that he wanted to rest and draw a salary at the same time. When he has time to reflect, and this s's seldom, he longs for the easy job of operating a. camp and handling a. crowd of Indian guides. He finds no rest, for during every daylight hour there is something doing on thr \‘ri~ hill, on the rink, on t c V3.7- and a hundred people LO :1". me with sports equipment .nd di~ :rection. But he keeps fit as they all do. The air is bracing and invigorating and there is lots ‘1: fun. [NMTA’JUDUN Wednesday, February 13, 8 p.m. Findlay’s Hall, Thornhill M. S. HAMILTON RICHMOND HILL, PHONE 198 In the group above one sees the director assisting Their Ex- cellencies Lord and Lady Will- ingdon who have just come down the slide for the third time. The other group perhaps explains Why he.finds so much pleasure in his work and why he has taken up skiing again. There is also a. picture of his rink which shows how the slide in the back- ground drops down steeply from the citadel. But take the other picture. This will show you Jack Strath- dee's most recent discovery. Beâ€" yond the dogs and the terrace is a field of free ice. Beyond that the Isle of Orleans is a shadowy forum: Now to the left of the Island, just above the lamp standard, great slabs and chunks of crystal. and opaque ice hurled themselves in a. mass, Ste. Petronille THORNHILL, PHONE 41 cast reefs of glistening .pinnacles to the sky in one glorious chaos and screechingly, groanineg set- tled down._ Then the mayor of St. Gregoire and_the mayor of Steâ€"Petroniflle set out, each armed with a small spruce cut- ting. They met somewhere in the centre of the river, solemnly shook hands, and the ice bridge was declared open. It was after that, that the sports director drove over and discovered Ste- Petronilsle with its ski slopes and tohoggan and snowshoe prosâ€" pects, and also the "Catalogue". The “Catalogue” has a rubble- stone fire place of catalogue about. the floor and as Window d'rzupes, the oddest old furnitureland quaint bed-rooms and, above all z; splendid cuisine; It is {less than one hour from Quebec and is hailed as a great discovery. PAGE b‘EVEN