CITY COUNCIL.
jjcyoud the reports which we published last evening there was very little business of importance transacted at yesterday 8 meeting of the Council. Mr < lenever, the das Engineer, wrote in reply to a complaint by the Council as to the quality of the gas supplied to the City, that the quality for a considerable period had been uniformly an average of fourteen candles, i.e., four candles over and above the standard quality mentioned in the contract. As to the quantity, with the exception of Saturday night, the Bth instant, when, owing to aii unavoidable accident at the works, the supply was very defective iu the early part of the evening, m this particular the gas is good. Kespecting consumers, Mr denever added—lf they will persist in fitting up the houses with cheap, small fittings and indifferent burners, so that the supply is defective aud the value of the light deteriorated inconsequence, then of course the same cry of bad gas will continue, even although it were double the illuminating power of the present supply. The same thing occurs in England, and Uungdin cannot he an exception.” In conclusion, Mr (lenever asked that the gas should he regularly tested by the Council’s photometer.— (T Bui it testified that the defective gas on the bth was owing to an accident at the works,—Or Waltkk would have liked Mr (lenever to have explained the causa of the perpetual corrosion of the gas fittings, , . Emir of the Corporation day-men applied to have their wages raised to the rate received by the other day-men, viz., 8s a-day. It was decided that all the men in the employ of the ('orporation should receive os a-day f if reporteJ to he effcciejjt,
The Reserves Committee reported in reference to the widening of Princes street, that the Council should agree to refer to arbitration the question of the amount of compensation to be paid by the Corporation to the tenants in the Manse reserve, whose properties would be affected by widening Princes street to one and a-half chains. The report was adopted by the casting vote of the Mayor, there voting for it Or 3. Burt, Ramsay, and Walter; against, Grs. Beck, Reeves, and Woodland. The protest of Cr. Reeves,' who considered the work a thoroughly useless one, was recorded. < ■ Tiie Reserves Committee reported in reference to a site for the fourth school. —“ As to letter from Provincial Government, under date 13th November, 1873, agreeing to waive any right to the 33 feet of land between the Princes street reserve and Bond street, on condition that the Council provide a suitable site for the proposed fourth school : Your Committee recommends that an offer be made to place at the disposal of the Government sections 45 and 4b, block 1., Wharves and Quays Reserve, at a nominal rental of Is per annum, and that the Council agree to cancel the existing lenses of sections 44 and 47, in order that a complete area of land maybe handed over as a site for the school, on the understanding that the Government will undertake to make arrangements with the two tenants who may be deprived of their leaseholds, or if these sections are regarded as not suitable, the Government may suggest some other site in Bell Ward.” The report was adopted. On the draft bye-laws re cesspools coming on for consideration, Cr Bkck moved that the report of the Committee be referred back. He was at first in favor of having earth closets, but he found that the public were opposed to their adoption, owing to the expense. He had also heard indirectly from Canterbury that the use of carthpans there did not answer. At the same time, he thought that as so many new buildings were going up, there should be more unproved plans adopted for closets. He thought the subject should be thoroughly ventilated, and would propose that it should be postponed for a fortnight, in order that it might be more fully advertised.—Consideration of the bye-law was accordingly postponed until next meeting.
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Evening Star, Issue 3361, 27 November 1873, Page 2
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676CITY COUNCIL. Evening Star, Issue 3361, 27 November 1873, Page 2
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