Parish Council and Parish Meetings (1900)

Post date: Feb 16, 2012 11:31:35 AM

Extract from Parish magazine of May 1900:

The annual meeting of the Parish Council was held on Thursday, the 19th ult. Mr. W. W. Blest was elected Chairman, and Mr. R. Tapply1 vice-chairman for the ensuing year. Mr. T. D. Aldous and Mr. S. Button were elected overseers, and Mr. Jer. Harris assistant overseer.

The bad condition of the path along the road to the Church was discussed. At its best this path is  not a good one; in fact in some places under certain conditions it is positively dangerous.  But now it is worse than ever.  The road contractors' heavy steam-roller, in passing near the path along the line where the Mid Kent Water Company's pipes have  recently been laid, has sunk into the ground and disturbed and broken  the path in various places.  In  other places, to  avoid this damage, the road has be left unrolled, or insufficiently  rolled, after mending.  So that both  path and road are in an unsatisfactory  condition.  The Council resolved to bring the facts formally before the Roads and Paths Committee  of the County Council, and to send a private intimation to the member for the district.

The Annual Parish Meeting, which ought to have been held at the end of March, is announced for Thursday, the 3rd. There is no business of importance to be transacted, and no election. The existing  Council remains in office until March, 1901, when a Council will be elected to hold office for the three years following.  From that time the election will take place once in every three years.

Notes:

1. Richard Tapply started his working life as a pupil at Leney's Phoenix Brewery in 1873 and eventually became joint Managing Director with Percy Jude.  At a dinner held to mark his 50 years with firm held at King's Head (1923) he was presented with a silver salver and silver coffee service. He served on the parish council through WW1. He died January 1927.