LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2621, 31 August 1882, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The Council met on Monday night, when there were present —The Mayor and Ors. Chalmers, Stinson, Macdonald, Bead, Garforth, Webb, Grubb, Smith. Leave of absence was granted to Or. Weyburne. The receipts were £157 8s 10d. The chief surveyor, Mr Baker, notified the Council that he would send a surveyor to survey the Bridle Path. It was decided that the path be surveyed from the bottom up to Tioehurst terrace on the upper end of Bural Section 40. Mr Milsem’s application for a grating in front of his premises was granted, subject to the approval of the foreman of works. Mr P. Barry, Cambridge Hotel, was granted leave to put up a horse trough on the usual terms of paying £4 per year for tho water, A requisition from Voelas road for a sewer was read, signed by twenty-five ratepayers. It was agreed that the work should be done when the Council had the money, as previously promised. Or. Beed only voting that it be done this summer. Accounts amounting to £B2 18s 4i were passed. The proposal for erecting a bathing place was deferred, seeing the Council election was so close at hand. In connection with the road to tho Gladstone pier, tho Mayor said the Government claimed that all had been done that they were liable for. Several councillors said that nothing had been done since 1878, and that the road had never been made, and a resolution to that effect was passed. The offer of owners of property on part of rural section 266 and town section 283 re a road at the back of Joyoetown was accepted, and the solicitor was instructed to make a conveyance of tho road to the town. The sanitary committee reported re eoavenging, defining a district within which the scavenging should be done by the town should the ratepayers agree that a rate be struck for the purpose. The district as ihiwn on tbo plan made by the foreman of works was agreed to be the district to be soavengered. It was estimated that the soavengoring rate would be threepence in the pound. The actual adoption of the scheme was deterred pending the election. It was decided to amend the by-laws in the direction of adding a by-law providing against any damage done to the street lamps, the by-law to be considered at a special meeting on the 11th pros. Or. Chalmers’ notice of motion that an experienced railway engineer be asked to report upon the practicability of laying aline of rails along Norwich quay waa negatived.