BOROUGH COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL

Committee Reports Committee reports and recommendations to come before the monthly meeting of the Oamaru Borough Council for confirmation are:— Finance.—Recommending that a grant of £5 5s be made to the Boy Scouts’ Association; that the circular letter from the Department of Health, intimating that a new uniform charge was to be made to all boroughs and town districts provided with an Inspector of Health, be received, and that the present basis of payment be continued; that the Loans Board be advised that the rate of interest to be paid for the proposed loan of £20,310 shall not exceed 3J per cent; that the Mayor's action in intimating to the borough solicitor that he could not allow the matter of the sales of allotments 2 and 9, block 96, to go to the Land Sales Committee be approved; that steps be taken to reconvert the next group of the Conversion Loan in the terms of clause 16 of the Conversion Order, 1934. Water.—Recommending that the Railways Department be granted water supplies to the proposed hut compound in Usk street on the usual conditions,

Town Hall.—Recommending that T. Nightingale’s tender for renovations to the borough office be accepted. Hy-laws—Recommending that Mr A. Goodson be advised that the council had no power to give permits for preaching in the streets; that the Automobile Association be advised that the council was prepared to keep the grass cut on the area of land in Medway street temporarily used for parking. Works.—Recommending that the request of Mr R. Whitehead that attention be given the road behind his property to provide better access for motor vehicles, be declined; that the request by J. Bulleid and Co. for an extension of the channel crossing lias been granted, and grading of the right-of-way would be undertaken subject to the company bearing the cost, but that the treatment and sealing of the right-of-way and yard has been declined; that Mr G. Thorpe be advised that the work of asphalting the footpath on the south side of Upper Nen street would be undertaken if property owners requested it and agreed to pay proportion of the cost, and that the formation of the roadway had been authorised.

Reserves.—That the question of subdivision of reserves A, D, and E to provide building sites had been deferred until an inspection was made; that the Sports Bodies’ Association be invited to attend the February meeting to discuss the allocation of playing areas; that Crs D. S. Bain, Beatty, and Wise, and Messrs John Tait and K. A. Ballinger be appointed the council’s representatives to discuss with the Automobile Association methods of combating and controlling storm water which comes through the railway culvert. Baths.—The action of the chairman in closing the baths to children under 16 was approved.