LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2360, 26 October 1881, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

This Council met on Monday night. Present the Mayor {in the chair) and Ors. Maophereon, Stinson, Eoed, Webb, Grubb, Weyburno, Macdonald. At a special meeting held previously, the accounts of the borough as audited for the preceding half-year were received and adopted. The levels of Eipon street were also adopted. Tho receipts since the preceding ordinary meeting were stated to be £45 19s. A letter from the Harbor Board respecting the land slip near the dock works was read, and it was decided to leave the matter over until the Board’s engineer had made a survey of the road as advised in the Board’s letter. Mr 8. O. Farr wrote that he was at present unable to supply any one-year-old trout, and the clerk was instructed to apply to Mr Johnson for seventy-five fish. Permission was given to Mr W. Morling to put up a verandah in front of the Victorian Dining Eooms, and to Mr Spear, for putting up a sign at his shop, Oxford street. In respect to a letter from Mr Kenner, offering to take care of the channels on Governor’s Bay road for £2O, it was decided that for tho present the work would not be let by contract. Accounts to £127 10a 7d were passed for payment. Leave of absence was granted to Or. Smith. As to the proposed footbridge across the railway at the foot of Oxford street, the Mayor said it was to be erected. Mr Davis requested (by letter) the Council to at once put up the lease of the British Hotel ground to public tender, but the Council thought no action would be taken in that direction until the present lease had come nearer to its expiration. The lease does net expire for two or three years yet. Cr. Macpherson laid on the table Mr Watson’s plan for a floating bath-house, allowing 60ft by 25ft. inside for bathing in. Tho payment of £5 for the plans was agreed to. It was decided that the work of laying the upper level water supply pipes be further proceeded with, a stock of pipes for the purpose having come to hand. Or. Stinson gave notice of motion for next meeting—“ That the town clerk’s salary be reduced by £25 per annum.” It was agreed that to mark the location of the fireplugs in the town, short posts be placed on the edge of the kerbstone opposite to them to better indicate their position.