CITY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1654, 22 January 1913, Page 4

CITY COUNCIL.

: .';• BUSINESS TO COAIE UP. '. In addition to -the usual committees' be'discussed'at. the City. Council's meriting' to-morrow, night, the following business also appears 'in the orpaper:— r -Councillor Cameron -to move: That tho Tramway Board of .Management :bo instructed'to. furnish a report to the Tramways Committee on the ' following proposals, ;etc,:— , .'..'■■':. \ •'• Oh the'number of .passengers " carried on each city section for tho .■• four weeks.ended' Decelnber 8, .1912, ~ giving a: comparison with • the iiuin- '■ -her,carried on the old section for.the . corresponding. period of last year.' -' (2) Giving the following aiteiationi in the 'regular tramway, sections a' trial:— '•:.".-■ . '\

■",'..(a). For- all trains,'.-travelling north, via Courtenay Place; tnd il\ ';', section to 'bo opposite. the Royal '/;' - Oak Hotel. ', (b); for all trains . travelling south, end of'section to '. -bo,:opposito- Taranaki 'Street, (o) . Regular end of section on . ,'nil ■ ■ Cuba Street lines- to be oppo'sito 'the Royal Oak-Hotel.: \d) John, ,' .Street'end of section to te f-hii'ted ; , to Drunimond Street, and Dnppa .'Street'endo'f-section to,be rt-mov- , \ed to 'Chilka Strqet.. . (3)'.On,tho'questioh of introducing " an overlapping ticket system with • sections; radiating from the 'General l'ost Office and south end :>f Fea- , therstou Street on all lilies passing* or radiating from these" points; tiitie- . by replacilig the present regular sections at Cambridge Terrace and Veitch and Allan's corner with' overlapping ; S3ctions'from the General.Post Office' ' and Feathcrston■ Street; ■ ■,"''■'-.■ .- (4) Reconsider 1 the present ecu-ces-sions and report oh any/improvements -.' that can be made'. ■'■':■ ■•..■' Councillor Tregcar to .move:—"That the couucil should fake into consideration , tho establishment of a ..municipal farm as a mnrkct garden in luino adjacent country district. That ti is farm should be worked by, elderly ti necessitous persons for whom other employment is difficult to obtain, and that this faun should supply or partially supply a municipal market, for fruit cr vegetables. ,

'Councillor Tregear to move:—"That In' view of tho fact that half the sickness and mortality of children nas its source in contaminated food, the. council tako into serious .consideration, the question of tho control of tho milk supply, of tho city." Councillor Tregear to move-.—"That tho council take into consideration tho supply of public hot water baths (salt and fresh), also, the supply of unitary family laundries, where clothes can be washed and dried by their owners at almost nominal cost."

Councillor MlKehzio to move: "That the following resolution, passed at a meeting of the council-, held on December 12,- be rescinded i—'That the council decline to grant permits to sell aerated i>nd mineral waters on the Lyall Biy Beoch on account of the danger from bitkcn bottles.'" . Councillor Tregear to move: '"> hat the council take into early consideration tho reform of. procedure, in order td-p:oauco efficiency in administration." Councillor Al'Konzie to move: "That a report bo obtained from Alessrs. Richardson and Lauchlan on the advisability of introducing a new tariff which .would cheapen the present cost of electricity and popularise daylight consumption."