CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3431, 19 February 1874, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL.

The following was the principal business transacted at the City Council meeting last night : THE FOURTH SCHOOL SITE. The Superintendent wrote with regard to tbe Council’s proposal to give the Dunedin School Oommitte % 21 years’ lease of section 1, Octagon market reserve, for a fourth school site in consideration of the Government conveying to the City Council, for the purpose of public traffic, the Fire Brigade site, that “the Government is prepared to convey to the Corporation the Brigade site on the same terms as those on which the site ou the market reserve is conveyed to the School Committee.” The Go vernment could not con-eut to exchange the freehold of a valuable site for a 21 years’ leasehold for a site much le-s valuable,— ihe original resolution of the Council was adhered to. SITE FOR A NEW SUPREME COURT. The Minister of Jast ce wrote inquiring if the Counoil would entertain any proposal in in the way of exchange for granting a site in the Octagon for a new Supreme Court. The latter was referred to the Keservos Committee to ascertain fuller particulars from the Minister of Justice. QUALITY OP GAS. Professor Bi.ack reported, as the result of his examination of the City gas supply that, on the whole, the gas was of good quality! both as regards its freedom from impurities and lighting power. The cause of any deficiency in light was to be looked for not in the quality of the gas but in the quantity consumed by the burners, or in the form of the flame produced. BORROWING POWERS, The Finance Committee recommended that an application be made to the Provincial Council for an extension of tbe City’s borrowing power to L 200.00 extra L 50.000 for gas and water supply purposes, L 50,000 for several City improvements, and that the fourth loan of L 13,000 be immediately negotiated for the carrying out general City Works, aud to include the amount ordered to be expanded in constructing permanent drains.