STRATFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 10 March 1915, Page 2

STRATFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The adjourned meeting of the Council last night was attended o\ His Worship the Mayor Mr V . P. Kirkwood'. and Crs. J. Masters, •). H.

Tiunnpson, .1. Boon. 1. Reader. .1 Eredric, R. McK. .Morison. An apology for non-attendance was received Irotn C'r. N. J. King.

WORKS COMMITTEE’S REPORT. Eliut Road East. —We have had an estimate made of the cost of doing the work required on the road. The cost will he £lll. and your committee recommand that a recommendation he made to the incoming Council to have the work done. Pound Stables. These are now practically completed We have instructed the Town Clerk to insure the buildings and yards for £2OO against tire. The Overseer has been authorised to obtain the necessary pipes to carry out the works in Broadway and Juliet Street recommended in his report. The committee recommend that the Broadway Central paths he repaired at once, paths to be formed to their proper levels and finished with tar and sand. Estimated cost £125.

Cr. Thompson objected to the expenditure of £55 on Hint Road, holding that there were plenty of other roads in the Borough untouched.

Cr. Masters: “This road will never pay the Council. We have got to keep the road in repair, it required doing.” The report was adopted. OVER SEER’S REPORT.

T. Sullivan reported on the progress of works for the past month as follows :

A 12-inch concrete culvert has been put in Regan Street to divert water to Hamlet Street. Two and a-half chains of footpath have been gravelled in Portia Street near the Gospel Hall. Cloton Road, from Ariel Street to Newton King’s haymarket has been scarified, rolled, re-metalled and blinded. Various culverts have been cleaned out. Some stripping has been, done at the septic tank pit. The roller has been over various? streets in the Borough. A drain has been cut through sections 215 and 175 at a cost of £1 15s. Ten chains 15 links of 3in. watermains have been laid in Miranda Street from Regan Street. Six water services have been laid. Bellringer Bros, have completed the painting of Victoria Bridge. J. Martin will complete his contract for building stables and pound in a few days. J have the work of concreting the pound yard in hand. Suggestions: I would advise that steps be taken to insure the stables and shed against fire. A 2ft. pipe culvert should be put in immediately at second hollow in Juliet Street from Regan Street, the present wooden culvert having practically collapsed. There is also about 25ft. of wooden culvert over the stream immediately north of Seyton Street in Broadway which requires immediate attention. The owner of section 833 should be compelled to clean out the watercourse which runs through his property.

, ELECTRIC LIGHT QUESTION. Your committee beg to advise that pending receipt of further correspondence. Information asked lor we are not yet in a position to present a report to the Council. In the meantime we place before you the various reports received from Mr Climie and the correspondence relating thereto, also particulars of the plant, and cost recently installed at Feilding.

ABATTOIR REPORT. A. M. Spillman, manager, reported as follows on the working of the abattoir during the month of February, 1915. The following stock were slaughtered: Cows, (58; heifers,, 25; calves, 5; sheep, 242; lambs, (55; pigs. 25; tripes prepared, 28. Slaughtering fees £sl 11s. Stock condemned ; Cows, ;} wholly; cows, 2 partially; pigs. 2 partially. Mr A. F. Clift has taken over No. 4 paddock, and this leaves No. 1 paddock vacant. At the present time two men are employed cutting and splitting into firewood all the logs in No. 1 paddock, this serving the dual purpose of getting firewood and clearing the paddock. These two men were employed one day with a horse and dray picking up rough firewood in No. 5 paddock. I should be pelased to get 5 paddock. I should be pelased to get stumping No. I paddock.—Adopted.

Crf Fredric moved, and Cr. Thompson seconded, that the matter of calling applications for slaughtermen to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation (d’ Mr Cojiestake be referred to the abattoir committee to report.— Ca tried.

GENERAL. A committee consisting of the Mayor, Crs. Richards and Masters was set up to report on matters connected with the loan for the new Municipal Buildings.

The Uunanga Borough Council forwarded tlie following resolution ior endorsement: “That this .Borough Council registers an emphatic protest at the way in which the food stulfs ol the people of this Dominion are being advanced, and attributed to the war in Europe, and thus incerasing the cost of living to those least able to bear it. And we further call upon the (Jovernuieiit to exercise the powers invested in it by regulating the price of the cupidity of the few and protect the well-being of the whole. Cr. Masters said Unnanga was a red-hot bed of Socialism, and he referred to the fact that Die Mayor during the recent strike advised the children of the place that, if they could not get anything to eat, they should steal on the first chance.—The letter was received. ), McAllister, photographer, Stratford, offered to replace the photographs destroyed in the recent tire at the Municipal Buildings. He pointed out that the eight frames representing the

various Councils were practically the whole since the inception oi the Borough, and had been presented hy tiie different Mayors to the people and held in trust for them hy the Count d, and he was prepared to renew same at a cost of £2 10s each. —Members considered the idea was an excellent one, and it was decided to lull in v.ith itH. Brown and Co., timber merchants. Miranda Street, wrote asking that the approaches to their offices be attended to.—Referred to the Works Committee for report. J. S. McDonald, Antonio Street, asked for the protection of the Council in regard to cows grazing in the locality of his residence. —Referred to the

ranger. ! It was decided to inform burgesses that cattle on roads will be impounded whether tethered or not. The list of district electors was approved. ! It was reported that the Council declined Mr Lowers’ offer, and that a committee consisting of the Mayor and ;Cr. Masters wait upon Mr Lowers and make arrangements for tieiug the building to the new wall. The Post and Telegraph Department wrote re lights being attached to the Department’s poles.—The Electrical Supply Company he asked to put in the necessary poles to allow the lights to be shifted to the north side of Regan Street. In connection with the kerbiug and channelling of Regan Street West. Cr. Boon moved, and Cr. Masters seconded, that the overseer report on the total cost of the work to be done.—Cr. Fredrie said if the filling was to be done the work should he gone on with. He did not see why the work should he held up.—Cr. Richards said that they should know what the work would cost. The motion was carried. Cr. Morison brought up the matter of the supply of boulders. He had gone around various streets with the oveiseer and a report had been made up showing that 3500 yards of boulders would he required.—The Mayor said that they ought to authorise the work of obtaining the stone. —Cr. Morison moved,.and Cr. Boon seconded, that tenders he called for obtaining the stone.—Carried. On the motion of Cr. Masters, seconded by Cr. Morison-, the matter of installing electric light and water at the stables was left in the hands of the Works Committee.