BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 279, 28 April 1914, Page 8

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

FCETXUHITLi MEETING. At the fortnight';.' meeting of the Borough Council las-', nijfht there were present: His wor?!i:'i the Mayor (Mr. Ci. W. Browne) mwivs. J. Kill)'/, VV. Healy, A. E. Sykes. \\. A. Colli*. A. H. Johnstone, J. Clark:'. \V. Anilmrv, OcoTahor, ,J. T. Mannix, V: 11. Jackson, and N. T. Maunder. An apology was eceived for t!ie absence oi (Jr. J. E. Wilson.

ASSISTA.\CE WANTED. The Borough engineer (Mr. 0. Skitrop) wrote that owing to the increase 01 work in connection with the expenditure of the £42,000 loan, the ordinal y revenue, and reports on the sewer extensions, it was impossible for him to continue the personal snpovvir-ion of work of the Borough to ..';<: s.'iue extent as he has been doing up '.o the present. While he had been in the Council's (iiiploy, the Borough had grown fiom SOD to 4000 acres, and tin- stall from 33 to 110 men. In order to relieve him. he suggested that Mr. J. Chapman, who had been foreman at the water■•nrks intake, be transferred to town. The formation work at the intake was so far advanced that the concrete foreman. Mr. Hogg, who had been building the dam, could supervise it along his other work. Mr. Chapman had ben foreman and chainman under him in the Public Works Department, for over two years, and he knew him to be reliab l :, sober and tactful.

This course was agreed to. THAT DRESSED STUMS.

It was decided, on the recommendation of the engineer, to offer to the Church of England vestry up to 800 kerbstones at -d per stone. The engineer pointed out that' while th«y were wortii that amount for broken metal,'it seemed ; i pity to break them up if anyone wished to use them for buiiding.'

MtAINIXU KAKAMI) STKEKT. The engineer (llr. C. Skitrop), in >i report on tlie drainage of Karamu street (Jitzroy), stated that -ne only method of connecting residences on the southern side was by laying down kerb and channel on that side to Kowhai street and thence to Devon street. The total be done till Ueyon street was serbod and channelled froi*, Kowhai street to Nob's Una, otherwise the trouble would onlv be removed from Karamu street to Devon street. When the suggested scheme lor drain-.,,- the eastern portion of the town was carried out, Karamu >nect would be included. e The scheme will be forwarded for the • avorable consideration of the estimates '■•oraimttec.

A .WALL.

The owners of pro;,": - iy adjoining l'owdwham street on the north side fonvarJd a formal undertaking to convey to he Borough Council a narrow strip „i ami hllecn inches wide, as require, Into build a substantial retaining wall, the o °f^:i'l fi t''^then.spe = ctive w. Nt, t, :;; t , mie I t* hw * 0 . fw< y , ,° ""'''''took to contribute £WO towards the cost of the wall i„ t l,» Proportions fixed by the engineer! Consideration was deferred, and in meantime.the llorough solicitor wll bo instructed to draft conditions Co protect.™, „f th e Omncil i„ J 3 „ olier being accepted. fuu-; kscavks. » V»S otiect to, )„„■. 110] , lM I ,