CIVIC AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 8

CIVIC AFFAIRS.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING. The fortnightly meeting of the Wellington City Council was held last evening, when tlicvo were present: The ActingMayor (Councillor John Smith), and Councillors ]{. Fletcher. J. Trevor, J. K. Fitzgerald, J. Fuller, inn., W. 11. I'. Barber, .1. Godber, A. It. Atkinson, F. Cohen, L. M'Konzic, mid Dr. Cameron. The Wellington City Council Staff Club was granted permission, to hold its annual picnic on .March 1 next. Ten ratepayers were granted loans on the deferred payment system, in order to carry out drainage work, the applicants being without funds. Renewed application of the New Zealand Competitions "Society for a further donation towards the society's funds was not entertained. An increase in the rubbish removal service for T'orv, Tarauald, Vivian, Molesworth, and Riddiford Streets, and Adelaide Road, from weekly to bi-weekly, at nil estimated cost of M 22, was agreed to, as also was the city engineer's proposal for extra facilities for rubbish removal from business premises., estimated to cost ,£SO. These will be given effect to when next years estimates are being considered. . Authority was granted for certain protective works to be carried'out at the Mangatainoka Diver, in the Pahiatua Endowment, at an estimated cost of .£lO, the Pahiatua Borough overseer to be requested to sur.ervise the work. The tifmlcr of Messrs. Gardiner Bros, was oreepted for the slaughtering work at the abattoir. It was decided ihat the application of the Mitchelltown School Committee for tome additional land at the Town Belt, adjoining the school, bo considered wnen the present lease of the section expires in January, 1018. With reference to the requestof the Wellington Education Hoard that permission lie "runted to the Mitchelltown School Committee to erect latrines on the Town Belt adjoining the school, it was decided to approve the proposal, provided that the board sign the lease drafted in- the cilv solicitor, which provides Tor the lra«e-of all the Town Belt occupied by the School Committee. A nominal rental of ss. per annum is to be paid. Instructions were issued to the city engineer to bring down a design and estimate of the cost of erecting a disinfecting chamber at the destructor. Tl was resolved to inform applicants for (he extension of the water supply to Uungorford and View Roads, Melrose, that' the number of houses along the roads does not at present warrant the expenditure, viz., X'l.'lfl. The council resolved that the contractors for the supply of three electricallydiiven multi-stage • Dumps be nenah=cd to the extent of .£l3O on account ot the serious delay in the delivery of the pumps. „ ,i ii • • The request of the Roscneatli Municipal Association, that the word hoseneath" placed on the destination cloths of the Oriental Bay cars, and also on the waiting-shed at Ihe Oriental Bay fteviiiiniis. was not granted. The Libraries' Committee reported that it had received a report from the Museum Advisory Committee with respect to the extension of the Newtown Museum, and was obtaining a report on the roquiromenU. with an estimate of the tost id tlie work from the officers. The report was adopted.