BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 10 February 1914, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The abattoir manager's report, submitted at last night's Council meeting, was as follows:—•'! have the honor -to submit, my report on the working of the abattoir during the month of January. The following stock were slaughtered: Cows 81, heifers 2ti, oxen 2, calves 5, sheep 317, lambs 82, pigs 27, tripes prepared 19. Slaughtering fees wure £65 lis Ud; paddock rents, £10; and the amount derived from the sal ; of blood and offal wus £4 10s, a total revenue of £79 10s tkl. ,Stock-con-demned, included 12 cows, three heifers, three pigs and one lamb. A man was employed for two days, grubbing out noxious weeds and repairing fencps, The l'imu posts that wore put in the fences at first are breaking up very fast. 1 would strongly recommend that a substantial post and rail fence km erected in the main race from the entrance gate to the sheep fence. This length of race is continually wanting patching up. The overseer's report was as foll'ows: I • —Outlets to watercourses in the follow- j ing private properties have been made at the expense of the owners, namely, 'Mr. C. Martin's, Cordelia street, ami Mr. Valentine's Swansea road. A lain concrete pipe culvert has been inserted on Pembroke road. This culvert was • extended through . the racecourse, a. distance of 51i.t. The cost of the w®rk on the racecourse property is being charged to ihe Stratford Racing Club. Xoxious weeds have been, cut on. lror,au»h reserves between Cordelia, and Ariel streets, south of the Patea river. Watertables and footpaths on Fenton street west and Juliet street central have been attended to. The crusher bins have been erected; 110 cubic yards of material has been crushed. The > whole* of' tin- crusher plant is working splendidly. The work of laying a ilin water main from Regan street .to* the Recreation Grounds is in hand. Two water services have been laid and three premises connected to the borough sewers. The. work of kerbing and channelling will he put in hand to-morrow. The Works Committee as follows:—That a .'fos.tpuj,h nstructed, in Seyton gtrcet between . Broadway' arid' Juliet si'rjfctls- (estimated cost IT) 10s)':" tliat tltt hollow iri'Jliliet street be filled in; that the work'of filling in hollow in Orlando street as suggested by Mr. Butler be not done!