MIRAMAR AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 887, 5 August 1910, Page 2

MIRAMAR AFFAIRS.

*_ — MEETING OP THE COUNCIL. The fortnightly meeting of the Miraraar Borough Council was held last evening, there'being present; The Mayor (Mr. John Brodie), and Councillors M'Leod, i Bell, Bowie, Muir, M'Clelland, and i Richards. ■■..-.■' It was reported that the credit balance at the bank amounted to £W2. X letter was received from the Director of. Ordnance (Lieut.-Cplonel H. P.. Head), in which:attention.was drawn to ; uncompleted condition ' of. Pcarco Street, which was the access to.Forset Dorset. . It was pointed out that before the road could lie completed, certain drains age .works required to be done, and negotiations wero at present pending between the council and the Department with the object, of the drainage . work being carried out by the latter. The continuation of the street to the point tequired Was a matter of throe and threequarter chains. As the streets south and oast-of Seatoun Park drained' naturally to a water hole situated partly on the Defence Koserve boundary, .and ;it was of the greatest importance that the drainage should bo completed first. Tho cost ol the pipe drain was set down at £90. The Water Supply and Drainage Committee reported that it had decided to ask Mr. It. L. Mestayer to report upon the cost of providing additional power at the power station for tramways and I lighting. It was also recommended that the charge (or water to tho WellingtoA Gas Company be Is. per 1000 gallons so long as tho present agreement with the city continues. The report was adopted. It was slated in tho engineer's report that the trees and shrubs for the borough's plantations had arrived,-in good condition, and line weather had favoured the tree-planting- operations, which had been distributed as follow:—Tramway enclosures, 30; plantation, Seatoun tunnel 128; Karaka Koad plantations, 136; Worser Day, 50; Ouehunga Road, 265; total 669.