BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2393, 16 February 1922, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

■ At Monday night’s meeting of the Goimeil the borough fore--Iwm reported as follows: “During the past month the road staff have been employed in carting concrete, pipes, straightening bank of drain and ; putting in culvert in Johnston Street; carting .spoil and lilling in over same; also making up both ends of new road (Whyte Street) with brick nibble and metal; - grubbing noxious weeds, Victoria Park; top-dressing Main Street with tar and coke ash, and general maintenance work. Re pipe culvert at Johnston Street: we have jointed the pipes and erected concrete walls at-either end. Now that Whyte Street is open it is being used by wheel traffic, and I propose that we trim loose metal and give it a few loads of clay. We are now engaged on the top-dressing of Main Street. Any tar left over after completing this work will, in accordance with the resolution of the • Works Committee, be used on Clyde Street.”

The report also called attention

to the unsightly heaps of dry grass Eleft against the concrete wall opposite the Triangle, which is not -•.V'-vA only unsightly, but dangerous in Ij'gr.yjiew of the very dry weather. The report was adopted, and it > was decided that, provided a metal dump in Lady’s Mile be obtained, the Council order 200 yards of Rangitikei crushed metal from the Manawatu County Council, and that negotiations be opened for the supply of an additional 400 yards during the season. - The Mayor said that Whyte Street has now been opened, and an additional blinding of clay on the metal was necessary to bind the road. In regard to the supply of metal, he had been in conversation with officers of the Manawatu County Council re supplies. They had informed him that the Manawatu County Council has now installed a crushing plant, and is able to supply metal at a much lower cost —10s to 11s per cubic yard. Mr Hiekford, County Engineer, said yard of their metal was equivalent to 14 of Jackeytown metal in wearing quality. The prospects were favourable for the Council getting a dump in the Lady’s Mile, and negotiations were already under way, and if this was possible a great saving would be affected in carting.