LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2131, 22 December 1880, Page 4

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual meeting was hold on Monday night. Present —The Mayor, in the chair, Ors. Maopheraon, Macdonald, Garforth, Grubb, Weyburn, Smith, Reed. Leave of absence was granted to Or. Webb. The receipts since the previous meeting were £95 7b 6d. With reference to a letter from the Railway Department, demanding payment £47 17s lOd for roils in possession of Council, it was stated that the price charged for the rails was not at all excessive, and the matter was finally left with the Mayor to attend to. A letter from Mr G. S. Cooper for particulars of olaim for charitable aid was left with the Mayor to answer. A petition from some residents in Norwich Quay complaining of tho offensiveness of the smoke from Talbot and MoOlatohie’s warehouse was left with the understanding that the firm referred to would be asked to double height of their chimney. The applicant for the lot of land on Norwich Quay wrote declining to tender to lease same in terms required by the Council. The foreman of works estimated it would cost £453 Is to extend tho water pipes from Selwyn terrace up to the top of Voelae road. It was agreed to order £3OO worth of pipss from home for the work. At the instance of Or. Grubb the foreman of works was instructed to ascertain the cost of laying on the water up to Mr Holmes’ property. Accounts amounting to £132 13s 7d were passed for payment. Mr J. R. Willcox was refunded £l6 13s 43 upon the nnexpired term of the late Mr J. S. Willoox’s auctioneering license. Mr Shaw’s plan of the bathing shed, proposed to be erected on the site of tho old bath house was referred to the bathing committee. A letter from Mr Dudley re his property was referred to the estates committee. In reply to Or. Macpherson, the lighting committee reported that no undertaking to light the newly erected lamps on St. David’s street with gas existed between it and tho gas company. Or, Weyburn said it cost |6d to light with oil for the whole nigbt, and not less than 8d per lamp if lit with gas up to midnight. A plan of the siding required by the Council on the reclamation sent in by the surveyor was agreed to be sent to the Manager of Railways. Leave of absence for fourteen days was granted to the town clerk. Or. Garforth asked whether any answer had been received from Dr. Rouse as to the question brought forward by Or. Grubb with reference to the doctor’s services for tho Borough. The Mayor said that Or. Grubb had stated at a previous meeting that he had personally seen Dr. Rouse upon the matter. No official answer had been received by the Council, however. Or. Grubb corroborated what the Mayor had stated, and said tho matter had been explained to him satisfactorily. Ho had not before been aware why Dr. Rouse wan paid £SO per annum from the Council, but he was now aware it was for attending upon such persons as might be sent for treatment by tho Mayor, and who were without means. The Mayor said that only the doy before he had found it necessary to send a ease of the sort to the doctor. Council then adjourned.