News Briefs From Borough Council's Meeting

Chronicle (Levin), 23 April 1949, Page 4

News Briefs From Borough Council's Meeting

The Levin Jlatepayers' Association, in a letter received at Wednesday night's meeting of "the Levin Borough Council, requested the council to reconsider the projpotial to erect the 1R.S.A, Memol'ial Ha 1 on the triangle site.' It was decided that the le.ter be received and held over meanwhile. * * * The Levin Amateur Swimming Club wrote "thanking the GOuncil md baths caretaker for co-opera-aon during the season and asked it o keep in mind the lengthening of . •;he baths, suggesting that the ap-"^f plication for the release of steel and eement should be renewed, The council said it had sympathy' wi >h the club and the matter had not been lost sight oi. The position was that steel and cement-z supplie's would be w.orse before they , Wefe better, and that the time was n^t opportune to seek the material, but that the position would be watched. * * * Last Thursday was a busy day for the Levin Public Library, a record number of 1006 books being issued. Of these 97 were issued from the junior library and 60 from the NatiOnal Library stock. * * -An application frdm. Mrs. G. B. and Mr. C. R. Church for a permit to bui'd a combined shop and. dwelling in Winchester Street was. approved. As the town was growing, more of these requests couid be expected, said the Mayor, Mr. H. B. Burdekin. The people on the outskirts of the borough had the • right to such service. * * * As the -resu't of a petition "by. . seven residents in Wincbester an,d . Liverpool Streets in regard to a planing mi'll to be established in the vicinity,- the council 'decided that any factory built on the site should not be less than two and a half chains from the exisiing frontage, that the disposal of the sawdust and shavings had to be carried out by methods satisfactory lo the council and that the mill's operation would be during the pleasure of the council. 5t!- =5= A total of 8110 books were issued from the Levin Public Library during Mareh. Of these 345 were draWn from the National Library stocks and 7756 from the Levin stock. In the National Library section 164 of the books were fiction, eompared with 214 in the same month last year, and 182 nonfiction eompared with 243 for the same period in 1947. The figures for the Levin stock were: Fiction', 6674 (5874) , non-fiotion 408 (312) * ahd 'junior 674 (327) . There were -■ 63i new enrolments, 30 of these be- . ing juniors. - * • * - * The foPowing cattle were killed at the abattoirs during March, the\ figures in parentheses being those for the Same period last year : Cattle 606 (724), calves 75 (214), sheep and lambs 4840 (5721), pigs 1016 (863). Fees collected amounted to £1170 7s 3d, as against £1132 13s 5d during the same month last year. An electric stunner was now being employed for the killing ' of pigs and was proving very safisfactory, said the report of the manager, Mr. F. E. Larsen.