CITY COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 6

CITY COUNCIL

LAST NIGHT'S MEETING

.The Wellington City Council met last night. Present: The -Mayor (Mr. J, P. Luke, • M.l'.), Councillors J. E. Fitzgerald, E. A. Wright, A. R. Atkinson, G. Frost, W. H. P. Barber, J. 'Godber, AV. H. Bennett, A. Veitch, J. A. Shorland, ~1. Castle, W. T. Hildreth, M. F. Luckie, L. M'Kenzie, C. B. Norwood, and W: J. Thompson. The Finance Committee recommended that the following tenders for annual supplied for the year 1919-20 should be accepted:—Cement: Wilson's New Zealand Portland Cement Company, Golden Bay'Cem'Snt''Company; sand: Tonks and Andrews; saddlery; S. J. Manning. The committee recommended i'nat the supply of gravel, brass and zinc, general stores, •bricks and lime, painters' material, timber, drain pipes, and all other corporation supplies not enumerated should be obtained on the quotation system; also that negotiations should be opened with the -Hutt River Board for the supply of gravel necessary for tho. construction of the proposed concrete track on the Hutt lioad. ...

The report was adopted. The By-laws Committee recommended that consent;, should be granted for an Increase'in-the'height'of llie Dominion Farmers' Institute new building at the corner of Featherston and Ballance Streets, bringing it up to tho full height permissible under the by-laws, and also that consent be granted for the erection of a concrete mansard roof containing two stories, al though not 'in accordance with the by-laws. This recommendation is made in view of tho strength and fireproof nature of the construction throughout.

The committee further recommended that the Wellington Taxi Owners' Association shoiild-' bo informed, in Teply to their request, for ihe insertion of provision in the new scale of fares of 7s: 6d. .for the minimum hill faro,, and 6d. extra-for-fare on 'I he Terrace south of Woodward Street;and streets on the •west of The Terrace, that the committee, understood that'the association were a.ware of the' fact tliat in the negotiations between the committee and themselves tliesa items wero not agreed to, and it is now impossible to include them in the new «cale.

The Tramways Committee recommended that provision should lie mado to pay off the horse tramway loan of on the j]ate the loan falls duo (October 1, 1920).

The Finance Committee reported that It had 1 received'a leport .from tho City Uncineer. drawing ' attention to the urgent-" neld* foi\ fresh.' office accommodation in-the Town Hiill, iind recommending that a .new building should bo' erected on the site now occupied by the motor workshops and tho temporary buildings of the Technical School, and also recommending that sufficientijland should be. obtained from the Harbour Board reclamation at Te Aro for the accommodation of the motor workshops along with/the corporation yard, etc. The committee had to recommend that the City Engineer's recommendation pho'uld be adopted, and that alternative sketches of. the best method-of, providing sufficient accommodation in the proposed new building should be proceeded •with during his absenco from New Zealand. The reports were adopted.