PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 6

PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

. The lio'rongh Council met .' m' ; . v , Monday-evening, there being' present: The ' : : 'Mayor-.; (Mr. J. W'Ewan) and .Council- ' . : lors Short, Harding, • Trueman, Jones, List,' Piper, .Southgate,' and Cokjuhoun. The Wellington-Acclimatisation' Society : ■ forwarded' a - copy of the* Gazette. pro-. > . clamation of-- the. bird fanctnary. withintho "catchment area. - Steps were now !pro- ; posed-to ■be talcen to.. : have:the caretaier, Mr.: ,T. C.'Paris, appointed a ranger un- ~. der the Animals -Protection. Act. ' lie thanlcs of -the council wqro;■ accorded the society for its interest in: the matter. • • y-: . The tender of Mr. 11. Savage for ti» .: . supply of dog collars , was accepted. ' It was decided to convene a meeting,, of the' Taita Cemetery Board in:order. to 'deal with certain;.matters: arising -out-'of -';. 1 ; the remodelled,constitution of . the; goventlv ing body of tho cemetery. . •' Authority jrfis given: the:• Lands ana :/ Survey Department to carry out certain work with regard to - tho;. definition of . ,street■ survey levels. - •. -v. '.;' '•' ' On the motion of .Councillor: Southgata. it . was rescftved to . draft tv-.riew;. ex--tending- certain, privileges, of building ran- , struction- at' present confined.to'.Jackson.;. Street'and ; within a hundred feet of it to all 'parts of' the borough.:: At.present .no .. distinction exists between shops and. .dwellings in, the:- aftount: of- air,, roaco. .- required except m the Jaclisoii ot-TCCt area. Isy .carrying tho ; proposal, ) tho., , - council permits of the. erection of ■shops r , in brick and : concrete on any . sectionwhatever its size. Tho. motion waa; strongly opposed by Councillor. Piper- as.).being a step in the direction of crowd" ing in upon the residential area..