BOROUGH COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16156, 9 March 1918, Page 10

BOROUGH COUNCILS.

IUINuiOiIA. Eh© monthly meeting of tho litngiora ■Bojxin-jn vpuiicii iasv u veiling, j.-m----avm: xiie Miiyor u. i. 0 . a". J-i. .LiaJie, vv. ii. Jj.. ijyja, j:'. XI. i'uiicy, \\'. U. \ViisiH, W. J. itouc.o, aud \v. -ci. .uowbe, xiis Alitor Mas appointed to represent the Council on tlio uivuuuiou 10 \iuit ua bir lv • r lu «r to >Jo"- mo speedy couipicuon 01 the Utira tumid, and iuc jino. nd many councilors as toiua were ucpuu.il xo iutcud ino oomerejico on toe liiib mat. 10 Lonaiuer tiic quest.on ox a ior inc Aavaiiix-aieiic 01 ilio Cauteiuiny AUuomooi.c Autsociation wrou> atjAUig' lot tho oi luo Council iu tiiu mati-cr oi 1110 faiyx ia..iuuy crossing uuulo s;ue iui* iiaiuc.—A l *i to.

ihe District Health OiUcer wrote to uo iiiioiined oi ilil- tne proposed 10 ia.it,- in oxuci' io prej/aru a, aciiciuo lor a Wilttr a.Uv. uauuiago sysw.ai iii tho boioii^ii. —xwccivoci. j.t was detiaoa to ouppon, uic Auckland uouneii d iv.bo.uuou reyiuuiug Uic Xe-it-UL.on ul oaino.i.. .xno i\ianau'uLu County Cou. cii'fi resolution. urging lua Uuviiiuiiem. to iun ruco tiaiiu io savo tne extra amou„t 0 r motor truinc on uio wus> receivou. Tco loieman mat a concrete culvert t>3 put in at the junciion ut High and King uEre«t3. ile b.atca tha-o he had inspected the Institute ilujl, and would, not sanction the giaating oi ' u licenss lor a picture stiow unites cortain alterations weiu made.—Adopted. Tho financial statement was as follows: — Gas account, receipts i'io3 19s lid, expenditure i!6-i2 3s 3d; general account. £iu l&j, expendoicuro ilti 15s 3d; leaving a debit halanco oi £1768 I£=. —Auoptod. A deputation, introduced by Cr-. Banks, asked that be dono to improve Scddon street. It was decide that the matter bo referred to the iavuurabio consideration of the Works Commit lee. Tho Lighting Committee reported that, after having visited Kaiapoi ar.d made enquiries as to the introduction of electricity there, they had interviewed the Public Works Department's electrical engineer, nr.d npon his advicc they had engaged ilr J. H. Tempiin, consulting electrical engineer, to draw up a scheme for the reticulation of the borough witu estimates 01 the cost.—Tho report was adopted. The recommendation of the Sanitation Committee, that the r.ight-soil removal be carried out as a municipal work instead of by contract, was adjourned for three months. It was dccide-i that out«tanding rates 00 sued for unless paid by the ICth inst..