This report of a decision from the meeting was published in the Manawatu Herald on 17 November 1892 - obtained from PapersPast, National Library of New Zealand.
Amongst the correspondence read were letters from Mr H. F. Haselden, on behalf of Shannon Committee requesting the Council to take, the necessary steps to acquire sections 486, 487, 489, containing now owned by Mr J. Crowther, for the purpose of a cemetery. - The Council considered that the price asked for the land was too high, and no action was taken.