CIVIC AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 3

CIVIC AFFAIRS.

L, ——*— ——. - J MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL. ■ The City Council met on Wednesday i evening.' ' The Finance and Property Committee | recommended: That the request of the i Kilbirnie Ratepayers' Association for the | extension of Overton Terrace to Busaco : Road be'not acceded 'to at present.— ; Approved. J • The Baths and City Reserves Commit- ' tee be recommended: That -permission be ; granted to the Wellington City, and Snh--3 .urbs. No-License -League to hold a child- ; ren's_ demonstration on the upper slopes ? of Newtown Park on Saturday next; • that permission be granted to the MiiraI uui Surf and ■ Life Saving Club to hold their opening on the Lyall Bay beach, i no collection to. bo taken up.—The re- > port was adopted. a Tlie By-Laws, Fire. Brigade, and Street s Lighting Committee recommended: That \ permission be granted for the erection i of the proposed Presbyterian Orphanage 3 at ilbrriington; that consent bo granted for the erection of a .new theatre at ; Courtenay Placo for Messrs. John Fuller and. Sons; that tho following draft bylaw be approved: "No persons shall smoke or expectorate in any auction mart in the city or in any premises where food stuffs are sold by auction.—The report was adopted. The Tramways Engineer fMr. S. Richardson) reported that the Brooklyn cars were being crowded with Aro Street residents, while tho Aro Street' cars ran with comparatively few passengers. To equalise loading on the cars, he recommended that an (overlapping section bo made between. Manners Street and' Stewart -Dawson's corner. This would mean that passengers from Aro Street could travel 15 chains further than.at present for one penny. He recommended this alteration subject to -. the ■ present concession ticket available between Aro Street arid Kelburno Avenue being withdrawn. Mr! Richardson, also recommended that a- ten-minute service should bo" instituted, on • the - Brooklyn route, in place of the present twelve-minute service. l\fr. Richardson said that revenue would be -increased rather than decreased as a result of the alterations: ■■•■■■ The-report was adopted.