MOSGIEL BOROUGH COUNCIL

Evening Star, Issue 23701, 8 October 1940, Page 11

MOSGIEL BOROUGH COUNCIL

MONTHLY MEETING The mayor (Mr W. P. Hartstonge) presided at the monthly meeting of the Mosgiel Borough Council, held last night, ■ Messrs J. Muirhead and W, Campbell, representing the Taieri Football Club, waited on the council to discuss the rent of the football ground for tho past season and the cost of repairing a damaged lamp.— The matter was referred to tho Reserves Committee. Letters were read from the town clerk, Dunedin, and Scoutmaster E. Weddell regarding the reclamation of waste metals. — The council decided to have some leaflets printed to draw residents’ attention to the drive. Advice was received from the board’s representative, No. 17 District Highways Council, that the following amounts had been provided in the Main Highway esti.mates, - 194041, - for highways under the council’s control: Mosgiel-Middlemarch-Dunback Highway (Gordon road), £sl; Gladstone, Highway, £25. A request was considered from tho AitForce Queen Co-ordinating Committee for a donation to the Rehabilitation of Soldiers Fund. —It was decided to decline the request, as the council was already assisting patriotic funds in various ways. In response to a circular letter from Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P. for Egmont, regarding the proposed shop legislation providing for opening and closing hours, it was decided to ask the Minister what was wrong with tho present system of deciding these matters. It w-as decided to accept the Mosgiel School Committee's offer of a refuse dump on the school property on certain conditions.

Mr Fletcher Kydd applied for a watersupply to his property in Gladstone road. — A reply to be forwarded that, in order to grant the request, alterations to the pipeline would require to be made at an estimated cost of £63. , . An application for an additional light in Forfar street north was declined. The Chairman of the Works Committee mentioned that & report on the watci mains had been forwarded by the foreman, who had stated that the supply of water from Whare Flat to the reservoir continued to ha very satisfactory—so much so that the pump had not had to be used for a period of seven months. The saving in pumping charges had been considerable, and there had boon no necessity to supplement the pure stream water with water from the well, a fact which had doubtless been appreciated by housew-ives. The chairman of works (Cr Wilson), reviewing the past month’s work, stated that tho receiving tanks had been desludged and cleaned out. All trenches and ditches on the adjacent land had been cleaned out. The discharge from the tanks was still being kept out of the stream, it being diverted through the trenches. Both intakes at VVharo Flat had been inspected, and all air and scour valves on the pipeline attended to.. One new service was put in to a property iu Irvine street; and one defective service, and three defective stop cocks wero repaired. The dead ends of the mains were run off. The quarterly reading of water meters was attended to. One sewer connection was laid to premises in Gordon road, and two drains were inspected and tested. A new mud tank was built and trapped to sewer at tbo corner of Wickliffo street and Church street. Stormwater ditches in Clydo street and Quarry road, also alongside the Outram railway line from the Dye Creek to VVlckliffe street, were cleaned out. Tho patching and asphalting of road highway was now being attended to. Flowering cherry trees had been planted on the east side of Quarry road. Tho Clerk reported that the piping and covering in of the w-ater table on the north side of Bush road from Forfar street to Argylc street bad been considered by the Finance Committee, but it bad been decided that this matter should be reconsidered when tho estimates for the next financial year wore prepared. The Chairman of tho Finance Committee reported that at the request of the Mosgicl District High School Committee a reduction in the charge for a water supply to tho school had been carefully considered by the committee, but in view of the _ fact that no rates were paid to the council on the extensive school property in Mosgiel the committee felt that it could not charge less for water supplied to tho than was charged for extraordinary supplies to other consumers in tho borough, who also paid rates Cr M'Carlney mentioned that the Reserves Committee had approved the steps being taken to clean up and level the corner of tbe Recreation Ground close to tbe railway' line and tbe college properly. The Taieri Cricket Club had been granted the use of the Recreation Ground for the season on the same terms and conditions as applied last year. , Tho Clerk reported that tbe total outstanding. rates on September 19 amounted to £279 3s 7d. The total outstanding water charges on Sentember 25 amounted to _£l7 16s 3d. Tbe Finance Committee had decided to issue summonses in o few cases.