BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 143, 8 June 1908, Page 4

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

COMMITTEE REPORTS. The following reports will be presented to the Borough Council tonight:— WORKS COMMITTEE. Tho Works Committee recommends: That the footpath on the north side of Devon-street between llobson and Browne streets be kerbed and channelled; that no tenders be accepted for the cartaga of boulders to the* metal- I bins, the prices, in the opinion of the Council, being excessive; that the footpath on the south side of Devon-street from Hobson-strcet to the Hcnvti river !be concrete kerbed and channelled; that no charge be made against Messrs. Johnston and Benbow for water for garden hoses, there being no satisfactory proof that the water was used for this purpose; that the Borough Engineer report upon the question of the turncock staff being authorised to effect repairs to leaking laps, the Council to charge a fixed fee therefor; that Inspector Evetts lie requested to slate whether li L . requires any assistance in ■enforcing the borough bylaws, numer ous complaints having been made to councillor* with reference to the nonenforcement- of the borough bylaws.

AIIATT0I1! COMMITTEE. The Abattoir Committee reports: That Mr. R. W. Dixon having resigned his position as representative of the butchers at the meetings of the Abattoir Committee, the Master Butchers' Association has appointed Mr. W. Sole to act in his stead; that Mr. Dixon having surrendered his lease of No. 2 paddock and Messrs. Sole Bros, their lease of No. 1, these paddocks be reallotted as follows on the same terms as previously:—(,'amlin and Eva Bros. No. 1, Sole Bros. No. 2; that provided Sole Bros, agree to remove, all oll'al from the abattoir daily, the Abattoir Committee has no objection to pigjs being kept at the boiling-down works. The abattoir manager in his report for May states that there were slaughtered for local consumption 108 cows, 0 bullocks, 32 calves, 533 sheep, 3 lambs, 129 pigs (2 suckers). Compared with the corresponding month of last year the figures showed an increase in the number of calves slaughtered of 10, and decreases in cattle of 15, sheep 14, lambs 17, pigs 28. There were slaughtered for export 380 cows, 2 bullocks, 53 bulls, and 3 calves—an increase of 329 head. Twenty-five head of cattle were condemned. The receipts for the month it mounted to £2OO 9s 3d. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER'S REPORT. The Electrical Engineer reports: , Eitzroy.—A few of the poles for this extension are now to hand and have /Seen laid out and prepared for erection. We expect to gel them up in a lew days. The Telegraph Department has not yet received all the poles which they require for their alterations on this line. Transmission Line.—The bare copper wire for this work is now to hand, and arrangements for its erection are now being'made. Advice is to hand that the insulated cable for this line lias been shipped, and it should be here next mouth. The station instruments show a steady increase of load, a number of new connections are being put in, and all the linns engaged in installation work arc kept busy.