LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.
This Council met on Monday night. There were present—Crs. McClatchie, Wood, Weyburn, Reed, Grubb, Smith, and Hawkins, Or. Hawkins in the chair. The receipts since the previous meeting were £774 61 Id. A letter was read from the Treasury Department, enclosing copy of voucher for which cheque had been deposited to the credit of the Council for amount of Government subsidy for halfyear ending December 31st next, £606 17s 3d. This was the net amount after deducting £43 7s 8d for survey of reserves, &o. The Resident Engineer of Railways forwarded an account for £27 18a lid for driving a threeinch pipe at the pumping station. The account was passed for payment. From Messrs Royse, Stead and Co., asking for a discount of 25 per cent, off their account for water. It appeared that the Council were to allow that discount to consumers of 2000 gallons per day when used for manufacturing purposes. After consideration the application was granted. A letter from Mr Wm. Smith, secretary of the lands sports committee, was read, asking permission to use London street on New Year’s Day. The application was granted on the usual terms. Accounts were passed for payment amounting to £472 7s. The foreman of works report was (read. The portion of it referring to the line on London street was left in abeyance, it being thought that as the Council would have to employ a surveyor for other work shortly, the matter of moving a fence should be left until then. A footpath on Governor’s Bay road was ordered to be carried out. The engineer at the pumping station reported that the three-inch pipe had been successfully driven down inside the five-ineh pipe, the result being a fine flow of artesian water. The new engine for pumping the water into the upper reservoir was to be finished by Messrs Scott Bros, on Tuesday, the 18th inst. The earthquake shook the station sharply, but did not damage anything. The Council adjourned to Monday, 24th inst.
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1793, 19 November 1879, Page 3
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336LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1793, 19 November 1879, Page 3
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