CITY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 941, 7 October 1910, Page 9

CITY COUNCIL.

;iH V'FORTNIGHTLY MEETINGv-:;-;/: : The - ordinary'fortnightly of; the Cify,'Council.dast evening., was at-/ .tended;-by:;the' Mayor :(Mr. : T. !,M;''-Wil- ! ford," M.P.)„.;and -Councillors.;„Morrah,. Fletcher,' Shirtcliffe, Hindmarsh, Carmiohael, Fitzgerald; Barber, Thompson', Atkinson,.Trevor,/Frost,. Cohen,',■ Smith, ran'd'Luke./'':'.,'.■.'/ ■./,;•' mwgmivifamstmi

i-:', ,Thb/Finance, and .Property /Committee recommended that ■ the salary of an assist-ant-plumbing inspector, .be/increased,": in order to place .the: r sal4ries"6'f-;ajr. the assistants, on -the same; .level; that, the City Engineer be authorised to spond up to £3, in building a breastwork at Epuni Street,/ in 'accordance:. with. his report') that-'the Department of -lands and Survey be iriformed. that. the council, deny liability for the expense of repairing caps to'the standard survey blocks throughout the.city:—Adapted. ;,/: '';'",' '/The: Baths and Reserves Committee reported that they .had.granted the Boys' Institute permission to/hold: their annual .sports': -on ..Kjelburne; Park / on '/'.Labour. Day; and'that.they,had granted the New.town/Lawn,' Tennis r Club permission 'to 'take a-gas.'corinection' : thro'ugh;Town Belt .Section;B 'to/their.' club house, subject to the conditions imposed by', the' City Engineer.—Adopted... ■•'..•; -.':'"•■''■'.■ .'..■.■' '','.;: /-.The'-.By-Laws,/.Fire.Brigade, and Street-; Lighting Coriiriiittee recommended , that the, application' for a ; permit forri/public htillvat. the i" right-of-way; - off '' Boulcott Street'be'.required; to-pay fpr-'the cost of erection -/of „a'; lamp' at' the; way, /estimated at £i 10s.; and an,annual sum of £3 10s. for the maintenance of such lamp, and also that it .be a; condition/for. the'graritarig .of apublic/halllicense for the build-, ving.that/such 'annual amount be/paid,in advanced—Adopted. ■''.'■'- . '" ' ...//'.- ■;""• /.The Legislation and Reclaimed Land /Leases .Committee recommended that the Australian. Temperance and General; Mutual Life .Assurance .Society be -;in r formed ./that .the; council'; will, be . pre-, pared to' accept '.a surrender of their lease ,'of Section 119, -Lambtoh: reclaimed land, "new'.lease /for; the balance of the. term of the. present lease at., a, rental of .£122.105. per annum, being an increase ,0f..70 per cent, on'; the present .rental, with; renewals at. .valuation every fourteen "years; that :ai new lease bo granted to R6s3' arid.';'Glendining, Ltd., for fourteen years, from February 18, 1911,, of Lot 1, Block 2, ofthe Te'Aro. reclaimed land, "at a rental of. /£420 per annumj, with right of -renewals for ' successive periods of fourteen., years in-perpetuity at ground'rentals-tb'be, fixed by,.valuation for.:.'.eacli; period.-rA'dopted. ■/..'•'