THE ESTIMATES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 20, 21 May 1912, Page 4

THE ESTIMATES.

LIBRARY AND LIGHTING. At last night’s special meeting of the Borough Council, the recommendations of tiie Library Committee were adopted, so far as placing the money for these on the estimates is concerned. They were:— (1) That £25 be spent on improvements and alterations to the reading room—viz., 12 chairs £9, table £5, shelves and files for papers £lO, incidentals ,£25.

(2) That £75 be provided for the Library, viz., £2O towards librarian’s

salary, in addition to £2O already provided. £ls for: furniture. £4O for new _ books. Total for Library And readbig room £100. ! • * ’ r 'the sum of £IOO was plated on the estimates for li'ghtilig, hut consideraition ;• iof. the recommendations of ' the Lighting Coipmittee wtrfe 1 deferred.' 1 These were : 1 : 1 '

“That Broadway should be better lighted, and we recommend that either of the undermentioned proposals be adopted ;

“(1) Five lights on poles erected in the middle of the street between Brigade Station and Opunake Road. Each pole to carry four lights of 50 c.p. each,. Approximate cost of erection, “(2) Ten lights, five on each side of the street, of 100 ‘C.'p. each. “(3) Five light’s on lines swung across the street, with clusters of lights coualling 200 c.p., on each line. “(■!) xiia.t twenty new lights be erected outside Broadway at places yet to be selected.”