SYDENHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6508, 5 January 1882, Page 3

SYDENHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL.

An ordinary meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council was held at 7 p.m. yesterday ; present—Hi* Worship the Mayor (Mr John Joyce), Councillors Pavitt, White, Andrew, Hall, Webber, Langdown, Nieholl and Forrester. 00BBES70NS2HCS. The following were read . From Mr G. Bull, applying for a renewal of slaughtering license on section 164, Spreydon district. Beferred to the Sanitary Committee, with power to act. From the Christchurch District Drainage Board, requesting the Council to furnish for the purposes of audit—(l) The amount of rates paid to the Drainage Board during 1881, specifying the amount of each year's rate, and the area on which the rate is levied. (2) The amount of each year's rate uncollected and not accounted for to tbe Board. The information 'was ordered to be supplied. ▼7OBXB COHJIITTM. The following report of the Works Committee was read : "Tour Committee beg to report that Messrs Dean Bros having completed the street name-plates, we have instructed the foreman of works to fix the same at the comer of streets where there are suitable buildings to fix them upon. We have inspected the ground plan of the new Oddfellows' Hall in Colombo street, and finding that the means of egress from the same were insufficient, we suggested to the Soeiety that an additional doorway, 6ft wide, should b» put in the side of the hall at the west end, and that all the doors should be made to open outwards. We recommend that the necessary steps be taken to officially declare the following private streets to be public streets." Here followed a list of 58 private street*. The report was received and adopted. FINAKCB OOMTiITTBB. The Finance Committee reported that during the fortnight ending Dec. 31 last, the receipts ef the Council were £255 lis 7d, and the accounts passed for payment, £75 8s 7d. The credit balance at the Bank waa £337359d. The Committee also reported as follows: " Legal proceedings for the recovery of the amount the Council believe to be due to them by the Spreydon Boad Board, as their share of the Land Fund at one time impounded by the Government, having been delayed till the present time, in the hope that the Board would furnish the particular* of the items already accounted for, or that they would permit the information to be obtained from their books by an officer of tho Council, and all effort* to obtain such information or inspection having failed, we have considered the draft of a' plaint' proposed to be made to the Honourable the 4 Commissioners of Audit on the question, and recommend that the same be forwarded forthwith. We have considered applications from thirteen persons for the remission of their rates, and recommend that the same be granted. In accordance with the suggestion made at the joint meeting of the Works and Finance Committees, held on Dec. 19,1881, we recommend that for the future tho rate collector furnish a fortnightly report of the collection of rates to this Committee." The report was adopted: BTEBBT CHANHBLLHTS, BTC The following joint repart of the Works and Finance Committees was read : "Tour Committees beg to report that they recommend that a ledger account be opened in the Council's ledger, to be called the ' Concrete Channelling Account,' and that the amount of £7OO be placed this year to its credit. Also, that the Aorks Committee be authorised to proceed with tho construction of Hide-channels at a oost not exceeding £I4OO, on condition of the ratepayer* whose properties abut upon the streets where the channelling is to be done paying one-half the oost. We also recommend that the clause in the Finance Committee's report of Dec. 19, re the duties of the Town Clerk and Collector, be withdrawn." On the motion of Councillor Forrester, seconded by Councillor Langdown, the report was adopted. INSPICTIOK OF PUBLIC BUILDIKGS. Councillor Andrew moved, and Councillor Hall seconded—" That the Works Oommittee be empowered to inspect all buildings in the Borough that are let for public meetings, and to report to the Council at the next meeting a* to whether they cemply with olause 323 of the Municipal Corporations Act." The motion was oarried unanimously. BTATK OF COLOMBO BTBBBT. It was resolved, on the motion of Councillor Forrester, seconded by Couneillor White—" That a letter be sent to the Tramway Company, calling their attention to tbe state of Colombo road, especially in the neighbourhood of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association's grounds." HUMBOLDT BTBEBT. Mr Pefer Coutts waited on the Council, to draw their attention to the urg ; r.<; nesd for repairs to Humboldt street. After hearingthe statement*of MrCoutU, the Council referred the matter to the Works Committee, with power to act. After some further business of no great public interest, the Council adjourned to Monday, Jan. 16.