BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 95, 7 September 1912, Page 6

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

MONTHLY • It EPORTS: -• i 1 i . <■( -Monthly reports, ,us follow, .'\vil|j be presented at Monday nig|it's, meeting ,of tils' Borough Council:— • WUiuvS COMMUTE]-;. ' Tlie Works Committee recommends: that Mr. Standi*!) be inf'oripedVthat.tiie Council have no funds available 'for' the formation of Waterloo" road, but that the question -of the formation of tlii!s road will be considered by the -'Council when dealing with any new loan proposals; that the oiler" of Mr. T. y. Simons to pay ;C2O per annum for extraordinary traffic be -accepted for the period of one year; that the letter friim Messrs. Osborne and others re condir, tion of the footpath on the northern side of Gilbert street be referred to the borough engineer to effect temporary repairs; that applications be called for t,he position of valuer to the borough; that the following resolutions passed bv the Executive Committee on August 20 -be confirmed: (a) That, subject to the Fire Brigade contributing £io towards the cost, a temporary main be laid to the Recreation Grounds' for the Fire Brigade demonstration on December 15 next (total cost estimated bv the bprou< r li engineer, £20); (b) that the borough seal be aflixed to t'he consent to the dedication as streets of railway lands in tile Leach street and Leach street deviation;; that the New Plymouth Borough Council, being of the opinion that the site selected is..a proper and conveniejit one, and. that the ordinary traffic Will not be impeded by such construction, hereby authorises the construction of public urinals in Brougham street, south of Devon streel, as set out in the plans submitted by Hie borough engineer; that the town ejerk be authorised to grant permits for the erection of tents and \vbares on the Bench, east of the Ileum river, I he permits to be for areas of dO feet, square, to be for role year nnlv -and the fee therelor tu be llis per annum; that the Department of Lands.be requested to have prepared for sale tc, (he public plans of the borough as now constituted; that His AYo'rsAip the Mayor be authorised to arrange for the casements required for the work proposed in Leach street and Gover street: that. (,he Taranaki (N.Z.) OH Well*. Ltd. be informed that the Council are willius to amend the terms for the supplying of Water to the refinery by reducing the charge to £o-jO for the five years, parable balf-yearly in equal instalments oi -Cr>;), the Council not to be liable .in llv event of the pipes not eomino- to hand in time to l.e laid within the eight months stipulated: (hat die applications of Messrs. Standish and Medley and Mr. A. B. Robertson for permission to connect with the Eliot road water main be ref -rreil In the borough engineer to re- i port upon; (hat the applications for water at Cliilman street. Fitzroy, be ac- 1

ceded to, provided they contribute £8 10s, being one half of the estimated cost, the pipes to be the property of the Council, and the applicants to have no claim for a refund when the -pipes are replaced by a larger main; that the application of Messrs. J, W. Blyde and others for water supply at Dartmoor be acceded to, the l'/ 4 in. pipe in Barret road to be continued oloiig Belt road (estimated cost, £25); that the attention of the Health Department be drawn to the fact that sewer 'pipes from the railway conveniences are run into the Hnatoki river; that Inspector Tippins be instructed to take proceedings against persons depositing rubbish, etc., in the Iluatoki or Mangotuku streams; that the borough cngineu- be 'authorised to lay the following sewers: Two chains of sewer in Cover street, southward from Cilbert street, and a sewer in Linrdet street, from Cilbert street to Fillis street (estimated cost £54 10s); that Mr. Newton King be notified that the building now being erected by him on his property in Curric street is not in compliance with the by-laws, that no permit has been obtained, and that the work must be immediately discontinued; that the Novtli Taranaki Hunt be granted permission to make a charge for admission to the Racecourse Reserve on the occasion of their annual race meeting on the 19th inst., the charges to be as set up in the Act governing the reserve; that the Sinking Fund Commissioners be authorised to invest the accumulated sinking funds in the purchase borough debentures; that Mr. F. P. L'orkill be requested to grant an easement over his section at the corner of Liardet and Gilbert street, west of Liardet street; that in the event of satisfactory arrangements being made for water supply to the Taranaki Oil Wells, Ltd., an eight-inch watermain be laid along the South road and Breakwater road as far as No. 2 petroleum borei; that the width of the footpath, in St. Aubyn street, from Morley street to Cutfleld road, be fixed at eight feet; that the application of the borough -engineer for -authority ito purchase a motor-car be referred to a committee consisting of His Worship the Mayor, Crs. Jackflon and Morey, to report upon, and that the committee also report upon the organisation of the borough engineer's department; that the following resolutions passed by the Executive Committee on the 2nd inst. be confirmed': (a) That the borough engineer takp plnrgC:Of the'street works in St. Aubyn and Moturoa ward; (b) that the borough engineer be jn<st?uctcd to report with retVence to the metalling of -Rainsford and--Newton streets, with power to stop the work should it be necessary to dp fp; (c,) -that steps be taken to add tlije •Hurworth Ward to the St. Aubyn-Motii-l-oa Ward; that; Mr. J. Skinner be authorised to suprary.ise--.the. completion cif . those contracts.'already let in'the gj;. Aubyn Ward, for which he prepared thfc specifications,- -his remuneration to bje tjie, .usual s ; u.er cent, of the amfmnt -df such contracts; that a committee, consisting of His Worship the' Mayor, 'Crij. Clarke niuT'StocEer", lie appointed to dead with the adjustment of accounts for thp St. Atibyi) iun<l Moturoa Ward; that thfe resolutions passed on April 8, 1912, fixing the charge 'for water supply outside the borough and fix nig the charges for eleq-tj-ic/lighting and power be and the same are hereby rescinded; that the boroug]i engineer, be instructed to submit a retturn showing the cost to date of thfe ( c.a:rt)twork in Young street and Morley street; that the borough engineer be instructed to complete, the Fitzroy pound .as soon as possible; .that the borougji engineer ' be' Wtrtib'ted not t6 proceed of reducing the width df the' footpath 'on 'th'e/iiortU side of Devoh street,' .from Currie street to Li&rdejt street, until receipt. 6f'' - fui:tlier ihstnnjit'ions'from ,yie Council. I KI.KCTRICAL EXTENSION" WORKS,

! The electrical engineer (Mr. 11. Black!) ">vlll 'report as follows on the electrical 'worksi:—The • concrete work ,Ims boon carried up to the .full' height There is jet concrete to 'put in jit foot 'of old ; forebay, openings at 'present occupied'%_ the- : lsin. and 21ip. 'mains to fill. antt"one (Join, wall pipe tjo build in. This'69in.' wall pipe is being left - to : allow : tlie contractors for pipe line to' have the pipes tested and thdii bolt u]i to this pipe:' Pipeline.—The contractors have' get the whole of ;he pipes rivetted and ai,e getting--the, inside coated; the contractors have intiifiatj-rthat they are ready for the concrete anchor block on tlie brow of" "the hill to be put in, so tlie men luu'Q, been ,puf ,on to get this excavated, and the concrete will be put ita .«*, {|,ui,cklj-. as; possible. Machinery.--'Luc turbines have becto connected to tLo pipeline, and generaitQrfHU'o; bt'iugvfi'eftod. The number <Jif men employed -during the month was twenty. ' ' Ti» d:ite'the e:xo ;iiditurc on the extension works has be?n .CSo.Ki 4s 4(1. i , CORPUGII, IiNGIXEKR'S REPORT.' The .borough ,engineer; (Mr. C. Skijtrop) , reports.- the -progress of various •inrorty, am) slates that the Morley street culvert 'is now finished. The Gilbert sirei't, sewer is completed to Ridge lanje, .and IJifi Morley- street, sewer from Devqn .a(,rcet .to Gijine: street, while the Aubrey :t|o. K.ing streets Hewer is under construjctioii.' J 1 le also states that the horseman's cottage is uow.compTctpfl, and-that eigjit .scw'ei; <j'onneet'ioiis told five water copneptimis have been urade during August.