CIVIC AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2186, 26 June 1914, Page 3

CIVIC AFFAIRS

WELLINGTON CITY GfJUNGIU Tho AVellingten Oity Council met last night. Tiic -Mayor (Mr. J V. UW presided, and there were/present afea: Councillors AY. 11. T. Barter,^. .ifrost, H. Buddie, W. J. Thompson, "J. t-fMllior, L. M'Kenzio. E. Tregear, »• fi Wf£' A. H. Hiiidmarsh, It. A Wnjjtit, I. t. A. Hislop, J. E. Fitzgerald.- awl R. Fletcher. - ~ The Outlying Districts ComnUttcs reported that they had received a potjtion for improvements to Working ««"<!. Brooklyn, and had to reeommeiid Hint the Citv Engineer should be-wstnictal to carrv out whatever repairs were required to keep the road vn a Bute dition, and that steps similar to tlioso taken in the case of Charlotte, Uniee, nnd Reuben Avenues should be taken ir, this instance. -Tho recommendation was adopted. It was decided tint tho offieers be empowered to negotiate, nit tho lines, laid down in the report oi tae. City Engine?!-, for tho widening of Cai'«tw Gore Road. < , The laqucst of Mr. 0. Becro, that the. level of Wadestown Road bo fixed in accordance with the pwvisiiMt <rf tho Municipal Corporations Act, was not acceded to. It was decided Ifliafc tile water mam bo extended to Veronica, Harbwd, ami M'lntyro Streets, Vogeltown, for irr« prevention purposes, at an estimated cost of £lf)U, the cost to be charged against waterworks revenue. "Tho Finance Committee rc«mme«f«l that the council ask for exemption from tlio award governing builders' labourers, for the. reason that tlia corpora tion employees «ro already mwibws of tlio General Labourers' Imiori, and that no action he taken in craiuieotion with the Blacksmith's Union's dispute.—The recommendation was agreed to. The council decided that tho Miramar Borough Council's turncock br< t'frliHtted to' op?n tho valve at the mtv boundary when fires occur in the Minimal- Borough, should ]n» deem it wecs» sarv, on condition that in all such cases ho 'shall immediately after opening the valve- inform the waterworks owscer or turncock of tlio city supply of Ins having done so, in order that any fall in pressure will not cause apprehension as to a break in the city main, a«d also that the responsibility of shutting ofi the supply in a satisfactory! nsaiinor must be attended to by the . Miraraw turncock in the eveSt of a city official not being present.