BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 290, 11 May 1914, Page 7

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

MONTHLY REPORTS. The following are the monthly reports to be presented to the New Plymouth Borough Council at its meeting to-night: ENGINEER'S REPORT. Streets.—Several streets and roads have been repaired and 25 chains remetalled 25ft wide. Footpaths.—Twelve chains of footpaths have been re-formed and four chains covered with gaol gravel. GRAVEL, SAND AND BOULDERS.

Approximately 200 cubic yards of boulders, 240 cubic yards of gravel and 9fi cubic yards of sand have been removed from the river and delivered on the flat at tho crusher site. Sewers.—Queen street: This sewer is now laid from King street (where it is 23ft deep) to Young street. Young street west: This sewer is now laid to Outfield road where it is 3ft deep. Cutfield road: This sewer is laid to SI. Aubyn street, where it is 13ft deep. St. Aubyn street: The sewer is now being laid to Belt road and should be completed in about ten days. The school drain can be connected.

LOAN WORK. Formation Very little formation work has been possible owing to wet weather. Hobson street: Owing to the soft nature of the earth during' the wet weather little progress was made in this street. Watson street: About 150 cubic yards of earth was carted into the filling at the. intersection of Watson and U'ach streets. McLean street: Formation work in this street has been held up owing to easements required in Nob's Line, where the remainder of the spoil is required. Carrington road (upper): The formation is nearly complete, buthad to be abandoned owing to wet weather.

_ Metalling—Vivian street: The metalling from Morley street westward to the end of the formation is just abo" ! complete, but owing to wet weather it has not been possible to blind it yet. Wakefield street: The metalling on this street is complete and will be blinded in the course of a few days. ' Bell street: The metalling in this street is complete and will be blinded shortly. Victoria road: About four chains'of the road has been re-metalled and blinded. Kerbing and channelling. —Devon street: Approximately 50 chains of kerb only, and 52 chains of kerb and channel, have been completed. Hobson street: Four chains of kerb and channel have been completed at the northern end. Gover street: Twelve chains of kerb and channel have been laid, including four street crossings. Previous to the laying of this kerb and channel Leach and Cover streets' intersection was always flooded in wet weather. This, however, is now remedied, as was proved by the last heavy storm. The concrete mixer worked 14 days with a staff of seven men, who laid' 58 chains of kerb and f!4 chains of kerb and channel. Waterworks.-The conduit is now excavated to within about half a chain from the river, and the excavation for the flood gates is in progress and will soon be complete. The dam across the Mangarnahoe is practically complete and has stood the strain of the late floods splendidly, although it is yet green. Considerable difficulty was experienced in building the foundation to the dam through the- very leaky condition of the Water tube under the Mancamahoe stream. The concreting of the conduit will shortly be commenced, and the water mains for reticulation have passed Sydney and should arrive within a few days. The relieving caretaker reports everything working satisfactorily at the fillers, the river having been more or less flooded for the greater part of the past month.

LOAN EXPENDITURE. Tho following i.s the expenditure on loan works during the month:—Waterworks intake, expenditure £1750; liabilities, £SO; total. £1800: estimate, £2857. Liardet street filling: Total. £302; estimate, £:S00. Hobson street formation: Total, £2OO 17s fid: estimate, £286. Dorallo road: Total£ssl 18s 4d; estimate, £515. Taylor's corner: Total, £OO 15s 2d: estimate, £s(i. Carrington road: Expenditure. £l2B 14s Sd; liabilities, £10; total, £144 14s sd: estimate. £175. Victoria road: Expenditure,- £44 5s fid; liabilities, £2O; total. £O4 5s fid; estimate, £436. Powderham street wall: Expenditure, £BB 18s Sil; estimate, £IOO4. Vivian street: Expenditure, £l4 0s 9d; liabilities, £3fi; total, £'so 0s 9d; estimate, £226. McLean street: Expenditure, £l4B 14s lid; estimate, £250. Watson street: Total, £ls 17s 9il; estimate. £150; Cover street: Expenditure. £143 fis 2d; liabilities, £43; total, £lB6 (is 2d; estimate, £349. Liardet street: .Expenditure, £4O; estimate. £ll9. Devon street: Expenditure, L 172 ISs; liabilities, £100: estimate, £1179 17s.

.I'ILKCTinOAT, ENGINEER. Tlio iic,\T flexible couplings for tbe two 2.X1-k-.y.a. ■mat'liincs wliich were promised by Messrs Boviii" ami Co. have been delivered and .put into service, a"ml should bi! quite equal to all tic work

that may be required of them. The maximum load recorded during the past month was- 278 kilowatts, but on Saturday last this was exceeded bv nearly 30 kilowatts. This is likely to be exceeded on any Saturday now as the weather gets colder. During the month eighteen new connections were put on. included in which was a 40-h.p. motor installed for Mr. Kyngdon to drive his stone crusher. There is an increasing interest being taken in electric cooking and heating, and we have a number of enquiries as to what is obtainable and the cost of current for these purposes. Steady progress is being made in the manufacture of electric cooking apparatus, every year bringing new lines and improvements on the old," with a gradual reduction in price. Tenders have 'been advertised in New Zealand, Sydney, Melbourne and London for switchboards for the new sub-sta-tion and a number of enquiries have already been received for same from intending tenderers. ABATTOIR REPORT.

■Slaughtered for local consumption: Cows, 181; bullocks, 8; calves, 1!)'; sheep (562; lambs-, 157; pigs, 132. Tripes cleaned, 181; 3 calves' heads and one set ox heels. Compared with the corresponding month of last year they show an increase of 4 cattle, 11 calves, 8 sheep, 78 lambs and 19 tripes, and a decrease of two pigs. Condemned, 2 cows and 9 pigs. Slaughtered for export: 43 cows, 2 bullocks, 20 bulls, 9 calves, 25 sheep and 104 lambs; condemned, 4 cows and 1 bull. There was an increase in the stock slaughtered of 1!) cattle, 25 sheep and 194 lambs, and a decrease of in calves. Fees due for the month amount to £152 13s Od; rent, .CI 5s fid: total, £155 19s; an increase of £lB His. WORKS COMMITTEE.

The Committee recommends: That Mrs. E. 15. Ohartoris be informed that in view of the special circumstances existing the Electrical Engineer has been authorised to erect a street light at the corner of Barribal street and Record street; that Mr. ,J. F. Hooker be informed that this Council cannot take any action with relation to his complaint with regard to M. Jones' cabdriver: that the thanks of the Council he tendered to the Eight Hon. the Minister of Lands for vesting the control of the Botokare (Paritutu) Domain in them; that Mr. W. Pitt be informed that the Council does not propose at the present time to erect a theatre in this town; that Messrs. Pownall & Co. be informed that this Council docs not propose to order any illuminated addresses at the present time; that the Borough Engineer he authorised to form the footpath on the northern side of Powderham street, between Brougham and Kobe streets ten feet wide; that the Borough Engineer lie authorised to kerb and channel the following streets: King street, northern side between Egmont street and Queen street; Gill street, both sides from Brougham street to Liaruet street; Powderham street, north side from Brougham street to Kobe street: St. Anhvn street, both sides from Queen street to Cutlicid road; Brougham street, east side from Vivian street to Fulford street; that the Borough Engineer be instructed to have made an inspection of the central portion of the Borough with a view to stopping storm water from entering the sewers and so over-taxing the working of the septic tank; that notice bo sent to all owners of property in Devon street who have verandahs extending over the street, that they are required, within six months of date of notice, to set back their verandahs to the line of kerbing which the Council is about to lay down in that street. It is anticipated that the kerbing will be laid within three month* of date and work of setting back the verandahs must not be commenced until the kerbing is laid. Plans of the work proposed must he approved by the Boniogh Engineer, before being commenced, and must !.>:- done to his:satisfaction. Further noiice will be sent when the work may proceed ; that invitations be sent to General Sir lan Hamilton and his staff to a luncheon with the Mayor on the occasion of his visit to New Plymouth on May 2Uth, 1014. ELECTRIC LT.fi FIT COMMITTEE. The Committee recommends:—That Crs. Kibby, Maunder, Ambury, Jackson and His Worship the Mayor be elected as an executive of the Electric Light Committee; that the Electrical Engineer be authorised to procure four miles of No. 12 insulated wire at an estimated cost of £80; that Mr. Martin be informed that in view of the great disproportionate cost of installing the electric light along Brooklands road to the small amount of revenue which can be derived from that source, this Committee cannot see its way to accede to his request for electric current at the present time; that Mr. Potts and others be informed thai in consequence of the small amount of revenue to he derived in proportion to the cost of installing electric- light in Honson street their request cannot be acceded to; that the Electrical Engineer be authorised to instal electric light in Barribal street, to supply Mrs. Charteris's, Mrs. Petch's, and 0. Oxcnliam's properties with electric current, at. an estimated cost of £24; that Messrs IT. Cleaver and J. E. Eva be inforaiw

Mint illlrs ('onp.:-i] lum no power :it Ilia present lime to curry their electric light lines to their properties on the Devon line.