BOROUGH JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 9

BOROUGH JOTTINGS

Napier Council s Monthly Meeting

ITEMS FROM AGENDA

The Mayor, Mr C. O. Morse, presided over the monthly meeting) of the Napier Borough Council last night. Others present were: Messrs R. W. Goodger, E. B. Carrington, J. H. Oldham, P. F. Higgins, E- Williams, M. S. Spence, A. E. Bedford, A. H. D. Mayne and. A. C. B. Biggs. « ». * An intimation that the Napier Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club intended to hold a second inter-house meeting with the object of raising further funds to complete the erection of the new fence round McLean Park, was given to the council in a letter from the club enclosing a cheque for £100 0/3. This represents the proceeds from the inter-house athletic meeting held earlier this summer, plus some donations received. • • • In view of the fact that floral displays from the municipal gjardens of Napier are exhibited at flower shows, the council decided to make a grant of £6 6/- this year to cover the cost of more extensive advertising of the Napier Horticultural Society's three shows. * * » Permission has been granted to the four pi^ture theatres of Napier to screen pictures on Good Friday evening, subject to the programmes being approved by the council. # « * "This is an ©xtr&ordinarily good subsidy," commented the Mayor, when moving that the Employment Department should be thanked for its assistance in granting a subsidy of £425 0/3 for the Tom Parker Fountain. His motion was carried unanimously. * - « * The full use of the new life-saving reel near Sale street, on the Marine Parade, has been granted by the council to the Te Awa Swimming and LifeSaving Club, which will gjuarantee the reel's being kept in good order. The council established the principle last night that no reels are to b© removed from the beach without the council's authority. 0 **.» Two grounds each have been allocated on Nelson Park to Rugby football, hockey and Soccer for the coming winter. An application by the Hawke's Bay Football Association to open its activities on April 24 has been granted. # • » "I may mention that the executive and all officers of the association were most interested in the progress of our city, and as far as the library was concerned could not do enough to help with suggestions and information which would be of assistance in developing and increasing the scope of our library in the future," said the public librarian, Mrs M. E. Storkey, in a report to the council on the annual conference in Wellington of the New Zealand Libraries Association. * • # A recommendation that stand-by time of one hour should be allowed borough outside employees on wet mornings and that the matter of which workmen should be de.emed regular hands should be left to the chairmen of the three standing committees of the council was adopted on a suggestion from the works committee, which. reported having eonsidered the borough engineer's report on the local-bodies labourers' awsrd. * m m The Napier borough engineer, M;* W. D. Corbett, is to arrange for the building inspector, Mr E- Grant, or his assistant to spend a week on the housing survey.