WEST HARBOR COUNCIL

Evening Star, Issue 19785, 8 February 1928, Page 9

WEST HARBOR COUNCIL

MONTHLY MEETING The monthly meeting of the West Harbor Borough Council was held at Ravensbourne last evening, and was attended by the mayor (Mr J. M. Fraser) and Crs A. Smith, J. T. Downes, J. W. H. Clarke, G. W. C. Macdonald, G. Young, and J. M. Kay. The Town Clerk (Dunedin) advised that the borough’s request for an extension of the hours of lighting of the streets in the borough during the winter months from 4 a.m. till daylight had been granted. An application was received from Mr J Pratt (Main road, Ravensbourne), asking for permission to cut the hedge on the main road so as to give access to the section at the back of his house. Ho explained that he had leased this section, and the only means of access to it would be through an entrance in the hedge. The request was granted, subject to the approval of the inspector. “It is with regret that I have to draw your attention once again to the most offensive smell that passes my property,” ran a letter from J. Bain, Grant street. “During this recent dry spell it has reached such a stage that unless something is done immediately to remedy this matter I shall he compelled to take -further steps to safeguard our health. 1 wish this matter to be placed before the members of the council for consideration, and let them understand that this is a most impossible state of affairs, and cannot continue.” —The Mayor suggested that the letter bo referred to the Works Committee to report, and the motion was carried.

The Town Clerk, Green Island, wrote enclosing a copy of a remit which his council had forwarded to the annual conference of the Municipal Association of Now Zealand, to the following effect;—“That the present law relating to the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of highways in the dominion he amended so as to enable the Main Highway Board to take over and be wholly responsible for the main arterial roads in the dominion with a view to coping with present and future traffic requirements.”—“ To my mind it is a very desirable state of affairs, said the Mayor.—Cr Smith said that the Public Works Department might make a far more expensive job than did the local bodies.—lt was unanimously agreed to support the remit.