MIRAMAR BOROUGH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 9

MIRAMAR BOROUGH

JIEKTING OF THE COUNCIL. The Mayor (Mr. S. M. Stone) preside!! over a meeting of the Mirauiar Borough Council, held last night, ami there were present: Councillors E. -i- Harnett. ,1. Ilicks. B. P. Gardiner, H. K. liobertson, and Mrs. A. M'Vicar. Correspondence ivas read from Scots Collego nHkinjf for exemption from ratin'* on the grounds that the land was used for educational purposes. 'Vhe council rei'u.-cd the request. V letter from tlic City Council drew the attention of Ihe M.iramar Council to the following: resolution passed'nt tin; meeting ef the council on November i;j— "That the council of lie City ot Wellington resolve I hat, in the event ot lh-3 amalgamation >U' oitUur 1 r »ptii ot Uk* boroughs of Kniori niu.t MirflniiU with the citv, the tramway system in such boroughs will "be treated as an integral of the city tramway system. A letter was read from the Department of Labour with regard to the erection of workers' dwellings in the borough. Attention was drawn to the necessity of providing water mains and drains. J.lie natter was held over. The following resolution was carried:— "That the use of water for watering garden' by nieain of a lie,so or oilier rc.mcva'ble pipe be, and the same is, pro'"Tho engineer reported on the abnormal simply of water drawn from the boyoiwh's reservoir on Sunday last, and u was decided Hint the valve connecting the water main from Hie road mam to the Gas Company's works l;o locked, and n-ran"ementf! made whereby the council vcukf bo notified if the company wished to draw an oxtrajarge supply. ft was resolved that the Mayor (Mr. b. M. Stone) should draw HP nn.acreement .mid submit it to tliQ Gas Company. The .monthly report of the engineer showed that the expenditure in wages u-,w Hl2 Ito. 2d. Thirteen building perSit. is c ued of n value of « the f,M>- lioinir .ra as. The figures tor tli"X Value .£2(;,KU'a„d fee. .£llO 5s Work on the sea. front lmd been pushed forward as rapidly m poss.b e. Forty foot of roclc wall had boon built east of" Stafford Street, and a further fifty feet was un to half-tide level. The e-istern cravnc had been completed to a Wth o E f 'Mty-foar tat A start had been made on the formation of Manic street at its junction with Campbell <slrppt and further work had been dono on Marine Parado and Totaru Jioad. Tho footpath on the couth side of to Seatoun tunnel had been concreted The total of these alterations was J3BO lis. 2d. —The report was adopted.