LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2206, 22 March 1881, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual meeting of this Council was held on Monday night, when there were present the Major and Crs. Macpherson, Macdonald, Hawkins, Rood, Garforth, Webb, Grubb, Weybnrn, and J. W. Smith. The receipts since the proceeding meeting were -E!)l 18s. A letter from tho Railway department was read, enclosing tho terms under which a private siding could be obtained to tho Council’s reserve at Officer’s Point. Tho letter was left with tho estates committee. Correspondence was read with reference to supplying tho railway signalman’s house at tho Valley with water. It waa agreed to do so, the service to be by meter. A letter from Messrs Harman and Stevens was read, requesting tho Council to put a cart crossing opposite Mr Mitchell’s property, Voola’s road. The object in view, the Mayor said, was to enable access to bo obtained to Lord Lyttelton’s property, which it was said was about to bo out up into lota and placed in tho market. Cr. Webb opposed tho proposal, and moved a resolution to that effect, but it was not seconded. It being shown that a temporary crossing could bo put up for about and that it was a stopping stone to tho employment of some of the unemployed, on motion of Or. Hawkins, it was agreed to oonstrnct such a bridge whenever the applicants were ready to go on with their road making on tho adjacent property. Mr J. B Milaom asked by letter to have his water rate remitted, giving reasons therefore. It was generally conceded that Mr Milsom had been very generous in permitting the neighbors to nse water from his well. Cr. Webb moved that

half the cost of the water bo remitted, but it waa not seconded, and a resolution waa carried that the application conld not be entertained. A. monthly water account was granted to Messrs Royae, Stead and Co. Accounts to the amount of £&% 163 nd were passed for payment. Ito the ammalcnlse fonnd in the water supplied from the Council’s water works at the valley, Cr. Macpheraon submitted a letter from Mr W. P. Hubbard to the effect that the reservoirs should be covered in to prevent living organisms forming in them. The committee further reported having met Professor Hutton, and that gentleman gave it as his opinion that such animalculm as had been met with in the water were quite harmless to health, nor was th*re, in his opinion, any such risk as the water m the reservoirs becoming so unwholesome as to render it imperative that the reservoirs should be covered over. In face of the professor’s opinion, the Council gave up the idea of covering the reservoirs. A water rate of If per cent, waa passed, and a general rate of 5 per cent, on rental value. Both of these were identical with last year’s rates. Cr. Macpherson reported on the question of a bathing site, but the further consideration of the matter was postponed. Cr. Grnbb gave notice of motion for next meeting that a committee be formed to draft a by-law for licensing pedlers. Cr. Reed mentioned the accident to Pilot Reed’s child and the dangerous state of the footpath. The works committee, it waa promised, would see to the matter. On the motion of Cr. Garforth, the lighting committee will see what it costa to light the town clock for, say, four months.