PORT CHALMERS TOWN COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3687, 16 December 1874, Page 2

PORT CHALMERS TOWN COUNCIL.

The regular fortnightly meeting of this Council was held in the Town Hall on Holiday the Mayor piesiding and all the Councillors being present. Letters were read from Henrickson and Lindsay applying for fourteen years’ lease of a quarry at South Terrace; from George Morell, asking permission to put in a crossing fronting his hotel in George street; from M'Keuzio Brothers, offering to lease sections 86 aud 87, block 6, for fourteen years, at three shillings per acre; and from the Secretary to the Sinking-Fund Commissioners, re loan all of which were referred to the various Committees to deal with. A report was read from the Reserves Committee relative to the removal of timber from the rural land at lower harbor, and suggesting that a reward be offered for information as to the parties so removing it. This report was sent back to the Committee for amendment. .The Committee appointed to examine and report on the way in which roads about and through the Town Belt are being interfered with by the present railway operations reported that the road from Dunedin to the Port, near Supplejack Gully, was in a very dangerous state; that the Cemetery road had been so interfered with as to make it scarcely possible to get at; and that the new road to the quarry was so much steeper than tke old one as to make it practically useless. The Council was unanimous in its opinion on the careless and evidently make-shift way in which the roads were being altered, and directed that the attention of the District Engineer be immediately called to the matter. A number of accounts were read and passed for payment. The minimum at which the Corporation’s debentures were to be sold was fixed at 90. The notice of motion by Mr Asher, re amending bye laws relative to licensed carters and porters, was lost on the votes.