NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 November 1907, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

ihc _\cw Plymouth Borough Council met lust night. Present : The ilayor (-Mr K Dockrill), and Crs. Boon, Bellringer, Coleman, Collis, .Mills, i, lol . ey Cattley, iU id Browne. *' men. .school SAMTA'nox. .L_'J lOliuiuj lilt COSL 0l CAICUUIII" i,k uuiuiigu ftiiu-f to me scnouj, ueera isuinalc of cost, £,j), -ii.ii ..i.ju, ~.i.u tia . ,_ vulllJl uu „ al accept Uic wUi. uy-ana-uye Ule wuuill nuUiu nave 10 uo me hoik vviiiioiu any assistance a - om lmj UiJ . u .^ >u'.- Uoiu uc dune. <-r. Uciuuigc, said Ui c loan i:.id been raised lor i )un ; a Uml uiid U(H ,M'i been touched—.uoicsworin sum lor instance. X he urauiago 01 thai street Mas a strong plank 111 the loan proposals. AlokswuriU street sewer would do more good and serve more people than the High (School sewer which would cost th« Council £SO i.,'t one connection. It would pay a hundred tunes better. He would oppose ■my new drainage scheme until the east »-u-d and .Uolesworil, street had been atlMided to.

I r. Collis supported the motion." "cr. .ell nugcr „-as the last man who should liave taken up his present line of argument, for he had supported the expenditure of £l3O for the l'owdermin street sewer extension for the sa ce ol tlie tennis tournament. When that ami been under discussiun he (Cr. Collis) bad opposed it on ihe ground that .thcr paces were m greater need of se\y..s. -J like consistency," he concluded . Cr. liills supported the motion, col sidcring that all these places ahoulu .0 connected with the sewers.

Cr. Boon seconded the auieoumeiii. Cr. Collis had not sought to justify hH position, Ibut bad merely twitted C. Bellringcr with a previous mislai.e. There was ample room for the High School Board to make j oper provision for the drainage of the School. There were places in .Molesworth street filcre families were living on less tlu. an eighth of an acre.

I'liu Mayor interjected length:!,\ (Jr. Boon asked if he might ciiuniie. He would oppose departing foil i 1,,. proposals made in borrowing the u>oi ■:>> for drainage.

Tlie .Mayor again oppoi-d Cr. Bellringer's argument. JR. thought the Jiist ward was being very well treated, ■there was not'enough moiuy 10 do Molcsworth street, wnieh wiuld' cost •WOO. ...,. ..

Cr Jjellringcr and the Mayor"\\ehaiigi.i interjections. The -Mayor said it was i..l v.yy well to harangue the Council, out ,vhei? 'fas the money for Molcsworth street. fi,.tf Die houses there were ,he property of the. Covcrnnicnt, and could not be ferced to connect. Cr. [Si'ownc replied. The Coucnil seemed to have overlooked th'; fact ih;,t the proposed sewer would connect vith some ten houses besides tin High School. The sewer at pres ;ut only reaeiied to I.enion street.

Cr. JVllringor said this was a misstatement. The sewer wont to lindanes street.

The engineer bore out Cr. ISellringer's statement. The Council divided on the motion, only Crs. Bcllringcr and Boon opposingKAAVAR.OA PARK ROTUNDA. Tlie electrical engineer submitted estimates of cost of lighting the band rolimihi., totalling £l4. Cr. Morey thought the rotunda was too far away to be of much use. Sooner than spend this money he would like to have the rotunda shifted nearer town, say. near Mr Newman's residence. He moved Unit the engineer report upon the advisability and the cost. Or. Cattley seconded, and the motion was adopted.

'ABATTOIRS. " The Abattoir Committee recommended the acceptance of the tender of Messrs J. B. MneEwan and Co. for fha erection of a cooling chambeJLand the installation of refrigerating machinery (4-tons Humble)', at tc cost; <pf f£1619, an 3 that ina M?joi wl Gsi BrosSa

sign the contract. The committee further recommended that the furze-grub-bing be done by day labor, and that consideration of the question of draining the swamp and starving paddock be deferred.—Adopted. WORKS COMMITTEE.

The Works Committee recommended, inter alia: —That the borough foreman I be authorised to continue the footpath in Octnvjus Place as far as Mr Blundell's property; tliat tl\ borough" engineer prepare an estimate of the cost of forming, metalling, and channelling Currie street extension, and that upon receipt of the estimate the chairman and his-TOlmip the Mayor wait upon tlic Harbor lioiuvl with reference to the de-

dication of this portion as a public street 1 that the petitioners for the metalling of Gin street hast he informed t hurt owing to Mr Kwing declining to allow the slope of the filling to fall upon his property, the Council cannot proceed with the work; that the application of the Barrett Road Board re metalling Cutfield road from S\. Aulivn street to lline street, the Hoard to pay hilf the cost, he acceded to; that in reply to his letter re the proposed new'county bridge over the Henni river at the Avenue road, tlie county solicitor he * informed that as far as the Council can >ee_there is no necessity for the proposcd liridfre, hut that the Works Committee is willing to liieH a committee of the county in conference 011 the subject, the proceedings of sucn conference to lie without prejudice; that the opinion of the borough solicitors re the power of the Council to reduce the width of foot1> iths he held over for further consideration; that consideration of the annliini ,n nf P J ! r K ' WOW,T for Ihl> t l 1,0 defor »'< l i ,•* committee have viewed the ocality; that in the event of satisfacbring made with the . 10 t fto n q Board, the tender of Mr Bern,fee of *44 for ill( , nrthvmrk uitfuld road ha accoptod; tlint the Barrett lioa,! Board he' rcpiested to appoint a poundkecper for their disriet ' lie report as a whole was adopfed.