ST. ALBANS BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2613, 22 August 1882, Page 4

ST. ALBANS BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual fortnightly meeting of this body was held last evening at half-past seven. Present—Ors. Turner (in the chair), Money, Mann, Rountree, Bull, Blakiston, and Dickinson. Or. Matson wrote apologising for his absence, _ Leave of absence to his Worship the Mayor for the remainder of the Parliamentary session was ordered to bo recorded on the minutes.

The Chairman stated the receipts of the past fortnight to be £lsl 18s 3d ; present cash balance at bank, £42 Os fid ; accounts passed for payment, £153 12* lid. A complaint from certain ratepayer* in North street as to coarse metal being placed on the footpath* in that street was referred to the works committee. A letter from tho South Waimakariri Board of Conservators, notifying that in future a royalty of -8d per cubic yard for shingle and boulders, and 6i per cubic yard' for sand obtained from the Waimakariri river bod, would ho charged tu carters, and asking the Council to collect same on behalf of the Board, was next considered.^ The Chairman remarked that this involved a responsibility that it would be difficult to accept. He thought it was no business of the Council where the boulders were ob-, tained.

It was agreed to leave tho matter in the; chairman’s hands.

Sixteen applications for the assistant clerk-; ship to the Council were then opened and considered, and Mr W. J. -L. Moss was unanimously elected to the office. It was agreed that the burgess list be signed by the Mayor and two Councillors. _ Mr J. F. Ward was appointed returning officer for the election of borough councillors, the fee to be £3 3s each election.

Tho Treasurer to tho Christchurch District Drainage Board wrote, asking for the remittance of all drainage rate* collected to date.

The Colonial Secretary also wrote, stating that the borough by-law re slaughter houses had been approved by the Acting Q-overnor. A discussion having arisen re the state of the by-road from Orescent road to tho schoolhouse, it was resolved—" That as the school committee had widened the road and thereby caused it to he in a bad state, that so soon as it ia put into proper repair the Council will take over and maintain same.”

The surveyor was instructed to have the resolution of the Council carried out as regarded overhanging hedges and gorse growing on the various road sides of the borough. Or. Mann called attention to the impassable state of the north side of the North belt, from the Carlton to Colombo street.

Tho Chairman thought as the south side of that thoroughfare was well metalled, it would be well if the City Council would make it more easy for wheeled traffic by means of the steam roller, and that the traffic be afterwards diverted thereto.

The Council then adjourned till September 4 th.