LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1892, 17 March 1880, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual fortnightly meeting was held on Monday night, the Mayor presiding. The receipts since the previous meeting were reported to be £lßl 133 sd. A considerable quantity of correspondence was read and a large amount of business disposed of. _ A resolution was agreed to, co-operating with the Ohristchurch City Council in respect to getting an Act passed to stop Sunday trading. The sum of £95 43 lOi was received from the Government, representing the Council's subsidy after deducting £287 for Hospital and Charitable Aid expenses. Mr John Bennett and others complained by letter of a nuisance in Salt's Gully, and a resolution was passed that the residents in that locality must connect the drainage from their premises with the main sewer. Mr Carpenter and others complained by petition of the stench from the open Bewer at its terminus in Salt's Gully, and asked that the sewer be carried to its completion. This, the Mayor said, would cost £6OO, and they could not afford that outlay just now. A trap was suggested by Or. McOlatchie, and a ventilator by Cr. Hawkins, as a temporary means of abating the nuiaance, but a resolution was ultimately passed that the work of finishing the sewer be left nntil next summer, the funds being too low to admit of present action, but that it be one of the first workß undertaken. A complaint from Mr J. Brown, Ticehurst road, as to a nuisance, was left with the foreman of works. The valuation list sent in by Mr J. 9. "Willcox, valuer for the borough, was considered satisfactory, and notices of motion for next meeting, March 31st, were given to strike a rate of Is per £ on property, and a water rate of If per cent, per £IOO value per annum, both rates to be payable on the Ist of May. The usual statement of estimated incomo and expenditure for the ensuing year was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed as required by the Act. AMr Henry Kerr made application for the position of machine tender for the high level pump. Left in abeyance. Mr J. C. Graham, whose horse was killed last week by a fall over the cliff on St. David's street, wrote asking that a stone wall be placed at the spot as a protection against such accidents. The Mayor said the accident was the result of carelossness mainly, and not the fault of the road or the fence, an opinion in which Cr. Beed shared. Cr. Weyburn suggested that a kerbiDg should be made there, but it waß resolved that the Council had not funds at command to do the work. Councillors Macdonald and Smith were granted leave of absence, and accounts to the sum of £202 8s 7d passed for payment. The Council then took up the reports of Mr Turpin and Mr Kent on the trial of the high level pump, which took place laßt Saturday. Both reports were favorable to the exhibition, and advised that a feed heater be added to the boiler. Mr Scott (of Scott Bros.), the manufacturers of the pump, was present, and explained why a Hayward and Tyler pump had been made instead of a Tangye. On Saturday the pump had delivered 5600 gallons per hour, which was more than the requirements o£ the contract. With a feed heater he was sure 7500 gallons per hour could be raised. A resolution was passed accepting the steam pump, subject to the conditions of the contract, a fee of £2 2s being allowed to Mr Turpin. Tho engineer's report from tho Heathcote pumping station was read. Messrs Dicks and Collier's tender for constructing sewers in Canterbury and Manchester streets, for £344, was accepted, a resolution to have the sewer in upper end of Oxford street having been nega*ived by the casting vote of the Mayor. It was resolved that the water used by H.M.S. Cormorant bo oharged at half tho ordinary rate.