ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1431, 14 December 1886, Page 2

ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL

The ordinal-. for ni. ntly meet! g of the Ashburton Borough Council was held at the 0 unci'. Chambers, Baring -quare West, last evening. Presect : The Mayor and C .uncillors Thomas, Reid, Harrison, Tucker, Williamson, Bird, Sealy. MAYOU’S STVTIMENT The Mavur sod oi« oetut balance at the Bank w -£l-68 10 lid The amountwhich had b>.-en received since last meeting wO/e : Llbiary account, £1 9= ; license-, £2 Bs ; Pound, on account of rent, £8 : ten’s of reserves, £27 12a 5d ; rates, 1880, £1 15< ; toial £4l la sd. The amount of rales remalolng uncollected was £32 14s 6d, The library had been presented with a most valuable work on Natural Hiat< ry, by U ofessor Wihon. Mr Cyril J.'pnaon had presented the Museum with some Alford Fivoet diamonds, and Mr Oolyer, bark of sequoia, the giganr.io tree of 1 alifornla. cokrespondkno b: Letters were read (1) From the Colonial Secretary, acknowledging receipt of statem nt of result of Mayoral election. -(2) From Messrs A. and T Burt, asking quotation for pipes.—The Mayor stated that he had replied to the letter giving 'he information applied for. engineers’ report. 1 The Engineers reported as follows: Asphalt Footpath T-nc-ed street : The contractor has completed the length between Fait and Cass str *eta. He has taxi n pains wit<\ it, and finished it < ff in a creditable manner, consul- ring it ts, we u derstand, the first piece of asphalting ha has taken in hand. Some defective places in East street have been repaired. —He painting t tbrary Walls, S.W end : We have arranged to call for tenders at once for this work Will the Council autho ise the Works Committee to accept

a tender. —Fencing Library Reserve: We should be obliged if the 0 nncil won d de'ermine on a limit of cist before submitting d-si-ns. A plain substantial fence, s mlar to that round Baring Square West, with the addition <>f wires net ween the rail-, along the Havelock street frontage (ito chains) and the Buing Squa e fro cage of the section on which the Lbr.ry sands (1J chains), with gates, etc., the soi l being removed, so that the fence s' ou\d run on the level ■if tne footpath, aud an ordinary p -st and wire fence on the remainder of the fro' tiges (5£ chains) would cost altogeiher about c 25 —The labor gang has been engaged m executing sundry street rep lire, and -tome work o.i the Belt for the Hamp-ta'd own Board and have commenced re-forming part o f street near the Old Me* ’a Home ; also, in watering streets, attending o wa'er supply, etc LIBRARY WALLS. The Work- G-mmit e« was authorised to accepted a tender for ihe work mentioned in douse 2 of the Engineer’s report, r NCE, The qusat’on - f fence around the libray reserve it was resolved should remain in shsymon for the present. HUE BRI-lADE, It was res-Ived toat the sum of 2 s expenses inca-red bv th- F-re Brigade in orning out ns the occasion f the Western Fire Beb being rung by a nor’ wts er shou <i be p» so l for pivm-nt. WINTSK STREET In reply t a » qi.e-ti n by Councillor Thomas, wh asked why wo;k was being tone in Winter s'r-et when unformed streets wit-,in the Borough wer- in ne d of attention, the Mayor eai i the work ws a moist necceafiary one, as the place in question was very d<neetois f r traffic.

Crs Bird and Williamson alio sp-ke directing attention to the necessity of the work, CHI'ISTMAS HOLIDAYS. It waa reso, .ed that ha Council's offices should be closed from Friday, Deo. 24th, till Monday, January 3-d. STREET LIGHTING. The Lighting Committee wore instructed to report as to the beat and most economical wsy of lighting the streets daring next y-*ar. HOSPITAL BOARD. In consequence of the term -f office of the present Mayor, Mr K. Friedlandar, drawing to a cl ise, it was resolved that the Incoming Mayor, in conjunction with Or Harri on, should represent the

Borough Council on the the Bcapital Board RESERVE. The matter of denting with the reserve held by the late Mr R Wilkin was left io the hands of the Reserves Committee with power tc art LEAVE OP ABSENCE. Cr Thomas ob.ained two months’ leave of absence. V'LKDICTORY. As the present was the last occasion on which he would preside at the Conuoil meetings, the Mayor expressed his thanks for the consideration and kindly feeling with wh'ch he h*d always been treated by Councillors. He also paid a high comoliraant to the Town Cle k, Mr C Braddell, for the able as istanoa he had always w llingly rendered. Cr Wdllamson expressed him»-clf in erms of prsise in i-egsrd to the se-vice aff r ed t'.esjj B .rough by the Mayor. He h pod the Connell would not lose the benefit of the Mayor’s experience s.d advice. He proposed a motion recording the i igh appreci.a ion in which the Conned held the May r’s s-rvices. Cr Bird -econded the in tion. He also bore testimony to the efficient manner in wnich the Mayor had fulfilled hi- duties, and t-u t-d that although he was re'iriog from the Moyoral chair he would not leave the Council.

The motion was put to the meeting by Or Williamson, and carried wit aoclama’i'>n. The Mavor briefly returned thanks for the c impliment ted him. He said that if it was the desire of the burgesses and the Council -hat he should "ffes himself for election to the vacancy which would shor y be caused o- the Council, he would accede to their wish. (Hoar, hear.) LICENSES. The fi'llow'iig i'Cjm*es were granted : Kero-ene, Ore a--d Alcorn ; carriage, J. Htff-.rd ; driver, J Brff rd. PAYMENTS Accounts amounting to £72 2s lid were pas-ed for payment and the Council adjourned.