BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 97, 13 April 1908, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

| JSTKlilil KKl'ulH's. | 'ln' 1 "Ilowing ri'jmit~ will lie [jicsciil- : cil at tin; IJonniyli l.'niliicil - n' uiylit: - - j KU-r'I'KiCAI. I.Ni;;M l.i:. I I lII' ('lirll'ii'.ll re|inr( *. inUT I ;lli,l. lln t tin- lu;ul slc.ulilv il(el'c;M'll;i. j ;uiil il n nccr-suv iimv tw run Uvu mai i-i-ciii'iijr. Ua' ail'l ! inn' l.'i-kiloual -i-l. tnviuy tu t|„. -,H|.t;liiOly i\ i' I'll,, I' t| K , ,(.,11' u .,. M"U miming the illl-kilmviit ni'.ichinr In ll.lll'l ii.ll ;l 11,1 jrOYCVllill',' Willi til,' I j l-Vkilmvut machine. Jtut tin'. day loa.l rtinilil MIIHI !»■ Inn miii'li for )| h . Mn .,|| j iiiai'liinc. ami il would to j run a motor load without a »ovt'rm>r ami giv,. saiM-utmy result,, * ||', I commend, the piu'cliase „f U'omlwanl

y'ovel'uor. All tin: jmlcs anil arms rcipiircil tn lengthen dm Jim. have now been elected. So woik liiif Ih'i'H done on tlif l-'itzrov line, as tin- i n Jill Department lias not yet transferred it, telephone wires. Anions tlie pule" recently taken utit. a tew showed signs of decay at the "round line. Nunc ni the street lamps recently authorised have lieen erected, owing to shortage ol' poles. It is ipiite evident." savs the engineer, "that liefnre loiijr il wi'lfhc necessary to arrange for larger mains nr more prepare. It is aNo evident that within ■ n very short period an increase in the generating plant will lie necessary. liul I would advise Iha I llic ipiiMi'nn nl' water lie taken up at mice. Kioni oliservations taken during the dry season, there appears to |,i ample water for a very much larger plant so far as the river is concerned, but the tunnel and pipe lines will not lie cipial to much increase.

RESEUVES. I lie Reserves Committee recommends that C.3H lie placed on the estimate* lor the completion of tlie survey of tin' cemetery; and that improvements to the value of US 15s I*, circled in the cemetery, FINANCK. Ihe Finance Coiiiinillee I'mimincinls: I hat the fire Hoard lie advanced -m-ii -tun- as it may iv|iiiiv i,|> to Nl .InK ne\l. tlie lolal not to e\eee,| roll. -|,| I jail .nivalin'. 111 lie iv h 111,11 1,, , | M . I•„ ( on! o| iU lir,l year', revenue: that tln-ipie-tiou ol making a contriliiilion to wards the costs incurred by the .Inekev (-lull in ennnection with Ihe recent prosecution of bookmakers lie referred in the Estimates Committee; that accounts amounting In C«7O 12s 1.1 be passed for payment. The receipts for March totalled CltiSli Is, lid. the principal items of which were: Eleclrie li"ht Clilio 2s Sd: rates, C!l>:i Is Id: abattoir. Is Sd; rent-, cl:,:i j, |,[ : sundries. Cl7(i2s; librarv, CJI !l, (Id WOKKS COMMI'ITEE

1 lie "Works CoiiiiniUiM' will nrniumen.l. inter ;t |jn. Mial the Mollht Superior of the Convent be informed Hint the Council regrets !>ein;r mmlile In accede to her reijiiest for free wnler tn tlie Convent, as it won l-l e-lnMMi i precedent th;it Hie Council i. wit nr.•p;ired to face: that Mr. li. Utylrv informed that the work of repairing the culvert- and di*e|n'»iin<r the drain near his projK-rtv in Pmvilerliani-Mrerl hitbeen authori>ed. and would be attended 1 to at once, but the Council cannot to clean the drain through his property Ollce a year, as mentioned by liiui; that the question of fixing the water dunces for motive power be deferred unt : l nexi. meeting of the conuniUee: that the question of a waterworks by-pa>- a: the reservoir, Cl.'ill. be referred to the K>tiniat-es Committee: Unit tit.engineer obtiun the cr»n-cnl o1 the adjoining proper!v-jtwner- (.> (ho alterations of the levels l>efore proceeding wit}! Iho asphalting of Devon-Mreet be! ween and Wat-on--treet: that Victoria K-planade be tarred ami sanded from Queen-street to Weymouth-street, at a cost of of which till) is donated by a citizen; that the footpath on the <»a>t side of Dawson>treet from St. Aubyn-street to the K>planade be kerbed and channelled at a cost of C2l as. of which Cj is donated by a citizen: that the footpath on the we»t Mde of Dawson-stroet k'tween Young-street and the -(ream be korbed and channelled (estimated cost. C2oh that the borough engineer remove the dividing fonee be- ' tweeu the Town Hull and the Carnegie Library: that the engineer report on the of a public pound, and hs to the cost of concrete kerbinjr in Devon >treet from Watson->trect to the Jlenui river.