NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 56, 25 February 1908, Page 4

NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Iho lioroiijjh Loull.il iiK-t la-l night. Present; Hi, Worship ilu- Major ('.Mr. I-:. Doi-krill), timl Cr., iioou, H.dlriuger. Coleman, Colli., Morey, Cattlcy, an.l Urowue. The .Mayor ami Ci. Collis having yllii-i- dulic, lo pi-ifovm .11 eight o'clock, Ihe kilter part of tin- meeting was presided over l.v Cr. I-'. li.-lli-in-.M-r. WORKS COMMITTEE.

Tin- Work, Committee recoiiiiuciidtrd: —That Ihe Council being salisli.-il thai water ha. been wilfully allowed to run 10 »asto on th.- property occupied 1..Mr. Enroll., the borough engineer o'c uui'hori.cd lo iuimcilialely di.-eoini.--t Ihe service; that the Council take »v.-r from the llnilway Department the IW di'i-haiii ami Eia'idet. .1 reel bridge, a. from the 17th in.i ; that the letter of the District Health Oll'ucr willi reference to the provision of an ainhiilani-e lor the removal of infectious disea.es patients to the h.i.piial In- referred to the Hospital 1!„,„,| :„,. an cxprc-.ion ~1 opinion; J hat the Council of the i.oroiuh of New Plymouth resolve that the pi~ivisions of sections 117 of the |'ui,;j,. Works Act, lull.",. ,|,a|| „,„ ;l pplv lo those portion. „f St. Anlivn. Dawson, and [line si reels to which section. <M. Til. 11."). and ill! in the of \-w Plymouth have 11 igos. and ih-u a

eop.v of this r.-.olniion l„- loru.ndi-d o his Excellency t|„. i;„vernoi- i„r ~,,. proval: that the Taranaki l-:,lm-aiioii Hoard be informed that it i, ,|„. int,-„-tioit of the Council to lower l.ianlei street between rive and ,i\ fed ~| t|„. intersection with lYndarvcs stre.-i: that the pelitioners for the water main to We.-Aowu In- informed that Ihe Council regrets beinj< unable to accede to ilu-ir re(|uest as the probable revenue to be derived isj not sullieienl to justify ihe ex|K-nditiire: that ihe report of the town clerk liaring ..liown that consiiuiei'>* of water outside the borough are obtaining their water supply at ild in the X less (hail the boroii-;h ratepayers tho Kstimates Ctiiiimittee l.c recommended to eipiali.e Ihe water charjies outside the borough with those in the. borough; that- no water .service be granted unless the name of the lici-n-jil plumber who is to do the work is disclosed in the application; that tho re,eommeii(latiou,s of the engineer with ro-

ference to th« proposed tunnel for the drainage of the swamp iu Devon stre-d. west he given effect lo; that the l!y-laws Committee lie recommended to extend by-law <JH to require notification of additional taps, etc., installed subsequent to any water service being put in.— Adopted. ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMITTEE.

The Electric Light Committee recommended that tho resolution passed at the last meeting of the Council accepting * perpetual lease of about half an acre of land adjoining the power-house be rescinded and the amended otler of Mr. King of 12th February for the sale of the piece- of land in question be accepted (consideration, the sum of tun and free light and water lot- a period of i] years «s set out in the offeri.-Ador-ed.

GENERAL. Mr. T. C. Schnackenberg r'er»niil-'d a printed copy of the report of .Mr. Midgley Taylor," an English expert, on the proposed Onehung.-i sewerage scheme, directing attention to the following sentence:—"ft has been established beyond doubt, of outlet ~„„ )„ voliiid. that the cheapest an: \ ,„.v,l .sanitary method for di-posing (f -eu-age is 10 pom- it- in it- |. r ii,| ( . .^.,i n into the sea."—Referred to Hie DruiiiaL'e Committee.

.Several applications were received {, r assistance in making sewage cunie,tions.—Keferrcd to the Comniitlee.

Mrs. Mary West asked the Comic,'. ;,. extend the sewer in Moleswonh „( r ,.cf to enable her to connect her properly. -Referred to the Drainage 1 <niimil 1■ ■. Mr. T. ('. Schnackenherg drew lhe ,u. tention of the Council to the necessity for tl -pet ion of a street light in Short laud street near the liorouulMioundnry.—lleferred to the Kleetrie 'l.ighiin" Committee. "

A petition from the residents in the locality asked for the erection of an addition street light between Cranvill/a corner in Dawson street and the boroiedi boundary. lMerred to the Khvtric Lighting Committee.

Mcs-rs Henry T.rown and Co. wpic-!. eil the Council to form a footpath aloic their frontage in litilkelev Terrace, ih'y offering to provide the - licl.rlcd to the Work.- Coutniiltee