CIVIC AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2012, 20 March 1914, Page 2

CIVIC AFFAIRS.

"MEETING Of THE'CaTX OTJtf&L-.

' At'-last uight's meeting. :o'f the City Council the Mayor (Mr, J,'JP.-Lu!te|'pre-sided, ihkl there' «"cre also .pre;se.ii-t-Oouucillors 11, Fletcher, 3- E, l''itzgqrn.id, A. H. Eindmafsh, f, C.-fA. Hisfepi 11.'" A. fright, M. F. Luijk'ie, ID, Ti«gfiar, Johi.iJ''u:fler, }UJi-r.,,\V, J. Tbompsm,' 1. Oodbßi',,H, Bftddfej'G."ftost; andAV. H. I*. Barber, . ' ; , : Leave of absence wu.s granted to Cbu'ticilior h- M'Kciizie, ■•:'■''

The Defence.-.D;ep>rtra#Hi.vras. grafted' ilio : iise' : o'f Kcwtowii T%fk-m ..MiryylO and'H3, in connection, iviili 'the. inspection' of the forces hy'ScJieral Sic Inn Uflin'u'ltßii, . . ' ,

tt was decided -tft. allow .fee.L'ta.m p'ictuj'e oiltertainmcnts' oil Good Ifrida'y, subject to the usual conditions.

Mrs., W. llj Williams -wrote, expressing apittcDiatimi. o£ I'the. council's .-.actipu in' naming- the how 'park at Day's Bay '■Williams Park." .. She c-xpressed the hope that the- grounds woW'd prfiviS of. good service to.'the people.oj Welling-, fa»n .—it was decided to' record the- ■let' ■ Lor 01? the minutes. ' , A' tetter was received, from: thij Greater \\ ? Sectors' Association, asking if the e:ott«eJl M lender assistance "hu connection wiro lown-plamiiiig leo-tu-res to be dfjliy-efed in Wellingta by W- W. R. Davidge, of the London -County, Council.. I* wa - 3 decided to place the lown. Hall or the Concert. Chamber at tho.•disposal of the ■association for the lectures, CoujidM'Frost asked the- Mayor if- -. he would look into the .question, of the. . safety of passengers oft wo'tor- bU-ses ' fanning on the Karon,, route. He. it'll* i dei'Stood-that oil these vehicles-cfWttUe' tors were dispensed., with,, niitl Wat, tho I pnsse'ri-gers ivero foeked hi- If a fits- oc-; curro3 an.pqttoklriven matshii-vcs., tho clanger- to passengers. wmitd ho .great, and if tho oouaeil had ts «fo wtw two issue 0-f licenses, the iaat&r should be inquired into. ' ... The Mayor promised to give Mie mat tor attention. . On Cmmcillo-r Fuller's suggestion, tho Mayar issued instruetkms that in-! \;uiry he made a$ to Improvements ift the 'ventite-tiou -of the Town Hall, renarking that if Councillor Fuller would confer witiii the officials, • his expert ad-, vice would he a'pp-rficia-ted. Discussion was postponed until, next jftEftfag on a notice of motion, by Councillor Pullet of programmes for or-gaiv vceitals. , _~. . > Oh the motion sf Councillor Fuller,- it was resolved: "That tho Town Clerk he instructed to writs to tho several, niunij dualities of Sydney, Molhonrno, and Adelaide, asking for information as to their method of iseour.iu.ft pure milk [or infants, and to submit the result of m& uicutiries to the council.";: . .; ■'-fho Mowing motions (statidMlg art the liaiM of OqttiMJilfef Kuller) were also "ttwtt the minimum fidntage of ia.n.d tin which a residence ma-v he erected: be iiwrcascii from 20ft. to 33Ft. m tlm sub* Urban *»a, and tltjit this resolution lie ix-fmwl to the 'Bylaws Committee, to give effect to," . "That i-V Tramways Cmifcrijttc* hfr asked to report as In the- merit of extsiicHns tho Hfesent Brooklyn tramway terminus -to the vicinity <sf Taft. Street, and as to tho approximate I'ost. 1 '