LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2571, 4 July 1882, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

I A meeting of thin Council was held on Monday night. Present—The Mayor and a fall Council. The leceiptt since the preceding meeting were £769 12a 6d. With reference to the complete forming of the road leading past the gasworks towards the Gladstone Pier, the Mayor said he would Bee the Minister of Publio Works. The Counoil agreed that the direotion and grade of the roads made by Messrs Harman and fctevens were satisfactory, but nothing less than 40ft, the width provided by the Aot, would be acceptable. Consent was given to have Mr F. E. Pasemere's lease transferred to Mr E. J. Lee. Of a petition sent by ratepayers in Ripen and Canterbury streets, it appeared the unsafe fence mentioned had been attended to, and the question of drainage was left with the foreman of works to report upon. The Council had resolved to bring a cetspool bylaw into force by introducing the pan system, and it was agreed to leave the information on the subjcot sent by the Town Clerk of Christohuroh with a committee of Councillors Chalmers, Stinion, and Maodonald, to report upon. J. Burnett, assistant engineer of railways, wrote that Mr Perkins, the ganger at the Hcathcote Valley, had full authority to give all permission and assistance to tho Council's workmen to enter the tunnel for the purpose of seeing to any damage to the water pipes there. Dr. J. T Rouse's report on charitable aid cases was laid on the table. Permission, as requested by the gaoler, was given to close the right-of-way alongside the gaol until the work crar.eoted with the leakage of water there was completed. Accounts amounting to £258 16s 8d were passed for payment. Tbe pumping station report was read. In respeofc to the action taken by Mr lllingworth in supplying stone from a quarry to tho railway contractors, it was decided to charge him with fifty yards of stone at sixpence per yard. On the suggestion of the foreman of works, it was resolved that Or. Reed see about purchasing six five'inch water pipes nine feet long. The clerk to the Licensing Committee, Mr P. D. Gibson, was granted an honorarium of £2O. Or. Chalmers wanted to nrnke it £lO, and Or. Webb would object to any grant whatever. Cr. Grubb thought £lO sufficient The other councillors supported the £2O proposal, urging in support of it that the Christchuroh Council had voted £SO and Sydenham £25 for like services. Pin reply to Cr. Chalmers and Or. Beed, the Mayor said he thought it likely the Government would permit a surveyor to survey the bridle path. It was stated that tho pay of 2s per yard for stone breaking had been increased lately, that sum being found insufficient for the labor expended and the character of the stone being unusally hard. The clerk was instructed to write to the stationmaster re a nuisance existing behind tho sheds on the Gladstone pier. Leave of absence was granted to the Mayor for three meetings during his parliamentary duties.