MIRAMAR BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1185, 21 July 1911, Page 3

MIRAMAR BOROUGH COUNCIL.

TRAMS AND LIGHTING, A meeting of the Miramar Borough Council was held last evening, tho Mayor (Mr. John Brodio) presiding. Other councillors present were: Councillors. Richards, Telford, Bell, Stone, Bowie, and Laurenson. Tho Tram Service. A report from the Tramway:; Committee slated that Mr. M. Cable, assistant manager'of the city tramways, hud attended a meeting of the conuiiitteo and explained that the proposed hourly .service would probably run to and from the Post Ollice. Mr. Cable, undertook to report fully on the proposal as soon as possible. Consideration ol the alteration of the service was deferred until receipt of the report. The report was adopted. Miramar' Wharf. According to-the Harbour. Board Committee of the Council, which reported in reference to the state of tho Miramar wharf, a shipment of timber was due to arrive about tho end of the month, and an endeavour had been made to arrange for the landing of tho shipment at tho wharf, but, the committee said, the structure would not be sufficiently advanced by that date. Efforts, however, were being made to hasteu the work. Lighting the Borough. , A report on a lighting scheme for tho borough stated that at present tho street lighting on the foreshore was controlled from the Worscr Bay Kiosk, and any additional lighting at Seatoun or on the hill roads could be most economically connected with the existing light mains from that point. The extension most urgently required was along Tio Tio Road (old Seatoun Hill Roadj, from Dundas Street and along Fottes Crescent and Beere Haven Road to the top of the hill, where Townsend Road joins the Seatoun Heights Road. Tho extension would bo about 28 chains in length. In tho event of the council undertaking tho lighting tho main would be brought along Townsend Road to the end of the proposed extension. The Gas Company were entitled to have 21 lights in the district, and these would probably be sufficient for Miramar North, with tho tramway track lighting. The whole -question of electric light in tho district would bo reported on by Mr. Black in connection with the talcing over of the electric lighting from the City Corportion, and, the committee added it would be inadvisable to consider any further extensions until tho report was received. The adoption of the report was agreed;to. An Improvement Scheme. The Borough Engineer, reporting in regard to the improvement of land at the city and borough boundary, stated thatthe land owned by the. borough at the boundary consisted" of three pieces, totalling in all fotir acres. Tho blocks were separated by a city sewor reserve and n road reserve. The land had 11 frontage of COOft.. to the tram-line. Before any scheme of improvement-could bo put in hand the position of .the council in regard to tho sewer reserve strip, ICft. in width, and the road reserve strip, GGft. in width, should be put on .a better footing, viz., the city might be asked to lease the sewer reserve strip as a public recreation ground at a nominal rental; and the owners of tho strip of land proposed to be dedicated as a road might bo asked if it was still their intention to lay-oft the road. The inclusion of the two strips would make tho total area of the block nearly Si acres. The land was very rough at present, and' it would bo impracticable to bring it up to the level.of tho tramway. Tho cost of forming a recreation ground would be, roughly, XllOO, made up as under:—Levelling .£SOO, carting soil ,£325, fencing ,£2OO, contingencies .675. If the ground was laid out as a park,, only about half tho foregoing cost would. be entailed, as the levelling could be. reduced to a minimum. Tho cost in this matter would: be principally in fencing, tree-planting, and grassing. Consideration of the report was left over until next meeting. Accounts. Accounts were passed for payment ns 'under:—District fund account .£475 3s. lid.,, improvement loan account .£789 Gs. Bd. Tho- district fund account showed a credit balance of ,£856 6s. 5d., and the improvement loan account a credit of •£3070 lGs.