BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1915, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

OFFICIAL REPORTS, The following report;; wort 1 submitted to tlic New IPlymoutli Borough Council last night and were adopted: ENGINEER'S REPORT. Tramway Route.—Formation and metalling of St. Aubyn Street, South Road and Moturoa Road is completed on the southern side of the tram track, from six eltaina westward of Bayly Road to Queen Street, and both sides of St. Aubyn Street from Queen Street to Egrnont Street. Formation and metalling of Devon Street Central and Egmont Street is now being done. A second coat of soltar is toeing applied below the junction of South and Moturoa Roads. New soltar spraying machine is completed, but the required hose has not yet been procured. Automatic gates at the intake have been in use for about one week and are answering admirably. Building permits issued represented a total value of £OBll. BOROUGH FOREMAN'S REPORT. Morlev Street from Devon Street to Powderham Street, Powderham Street from ilcrley Street to ,Mount Edgecombe Street., also short length in Powderham Street from Rotoe Street towards Brougham Street. Also metalling portions of Gill and Liardet Streets with spoil from tram track, and patching various street in town with crusher metal. Lowered storm water culvert under tram track in Devon and Liardet Streets. Formed and screened footpath in Belt Road and Wallace Place, also footpath in Hig'li Street and in Fillis Street. Cleaned 1 ' water-tables and screened various'footpaths about town. Three drainage connections 'have been put in. Approximately 125S yards of boulders have been crushed. Caretaker at water works reported everything satis factory at filters and intake. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER'S REPORT.

Ouring .past month 14 new connections were put on and twenty-six applications received. Work on new transmission line delaye.l early in month by wet weather; "food progress /made during past two weeks, and line now completed from power-hoti-e across Smart Road and along Maugorei Road to Waiwaka Tefwc. Contractors for traimvavs began erection of poles on Friday week, and some of the staff had been employed fittings arms to take electric wires. Expect to transfer some wives to these poles as srym as span wires are put in. Advice received that material required ■or lighting traimvay route now landing at Wellington. Wire- and cables for switchboard and feeder connection being delivered. Have received 300 meters ordered in January last, and ire testing same. Wiring of new subwell forward. JfiUMWAY BIMLDINfiS. The clerk of jvorks reported.—-First floor offices ha?« rec.iyed finishing coat of plaster, and fibrous pUsJ.er combe; lia.ve been'fixed. .Flooring c,eing laid tc first floor. Flasterfng, tiling and letter in it to Liardet Street (ilevation to be practically completed at end of week, when elevation to r.each Street will he proceeded with during fine weather, and lathta" and plastering to ground door will be caryied on it" weather anfavoraWe for exterior work, flistemner lias ho.-n applied to transform**. l"v- n ' am ' ,)al " -terv room ceilings. All vol".; bi illg car .ried out satisfactorily.

TRAMWAYS PROGRESS REPORT. The consulting t-ugitirfr reported.— Contract Xo. 1: Wiring of «r shed and offices beeir completed. As contractors found it to obtain sufficient insulated wire of standard specified, sanctioned use of nr-xt available grade for balance of material required. About '2OO yards used. Contract Xo. 2' track laying continued in ■Kainont and Devon .Streets. nn<l in Devon Street West. Length of trench excavated chains and of track laid and ballasted 10-1 chain>.'- Totals to ml of month arc: Trenc'li excavated 32!) cbsins. trade laid and 'ballasted 304 chain;. Included in this mouflf's work is laying '2OO yards' track with jVrro-concrete sleepers, A trial hole in tin' trench in Devon Street, opposite Bank of Kew Zealand, was sunk to a, dentil of fift., and showed hard clay. With occasional layers of old road .metal ..throughout. Vibration experienced 'in tills Joesrl'ty on passage of heavy loads indicates that/ load is resting on old swamp, but depth. ' l;m ' ground i|iiite surticii-nt to previ-iif J rack Milking relative to (lie road. «f eais uill cause vibration to be felt jn hoot! to some extent, but tfi(V' weight W-V.[ Ix l so widely distributed I'? ii'os?' ,sleeper l\pr« ol track construction thai thick bed of solid filling will be l e,s affected that it is bv the loads which now have been taken along this road.. Wirier mains have had to in' lowered to pet proper clearance between them aird the rails at Mount Edgecombe, Egnicnt. ! .''rongliam and Ctirrie Streets. Contract Xo. Xo progress to report .in regard Jj to tliis work, the machinery foi"si£b-sta-i-tion not having arrived. Kxpcvtt'd it will be to hand shortly. Contract So. ,J: f.Vilings of ears have -been erected and jiainted. interiors vir.nrisbed and biXkh'V- prepared for coloring. Sand geared life guards beincf fitted. Some forty <.'i-ses of motor equipment have been delS.-ered. Wty'RKS COMMITTEE,

The commareported: That ''on -dderation ot abdication of i ionoial- J-u----boier.V l/niuii fur increase in jniujmixm rate of want's bo d>/terre<i, and that the' hoi'O'.i.u'li engineer aft'l electriwri engineer submit roeominciv&itiom .in to their resrpeetivi' .-.ttUi's; tluH eo'ti-id-eration of •!< , ttei- from dir-lrLt engineer. I'u-hli.. Works with reference to protective works.-at Waiwakuiho bridge. lie deferred; iiurt council re* oti'U it is unable to alter 'previous decision with reference to approaches to new hospital; that. -I. p'XeiH'- letter, with reference to drain ;vfij r-nlverl ;it his property. Devon Stieet Y\V c t. be referred to borough engineer to locate : Ironndu iv that letter Jtom A. Water-, '.villi rofi-ivnce In Fit/roy Roiv"!. he reh's'l'e.'l to horo.ii'li ellCiilU'er: t hat bonm:»h foreman he anthori-ed to h.ivc tree-; removed from f-b-ndrle '-'irc 't: that- FT. Marfeil and rrthei's be informed council cannot ,'t; way to extend water mains to Omnia Road: that apof Ka=:t V'thl nv Co nun itte>; for spoil from J ram 'oute he referred' to chairman: lhal daiYUi.ue caused to darn at Mr. .Hale»'-» property. ■iJ:u;«'ovei. be referred" to foreman: .th:*', of >4onn water from M<fiint Kliot Reserve, ant! crossing at )nter-.-«"t ion /».[ Kinnont Street and St. Anbvn Si reel, he referred to chairman and fort-man: thai W. fiillniiiU be , -informed Unit ip"n -pnyinciit. of !'O-t, !. CIO. Colli;.;] will l;i y (jlK'-inrli j waiter ,;>jpe- in Bavl.v Road to eimMe Ms properly to' V coniirctod: tl.at electrical engineer lie Instructed to ir.s'Ul a I strpot tifiM !tl)ovc men's conveniences It East End i»athin» reserve- t-liat ao-

tion of chairman in arranging for fencing at reservoir reserve, in accordance with notice served by adjoining owner, be confirmed; that meetings of Works, Tramways and Electric Light Committees l be held on Wednesday evening prior to council meeting, works meeting to commence at 7.30, tramways after iompletion of works and electric light after tramways meeting, while meetings not completed to be adjourned until Thursday evening; that letters from Messrs. Kyngdon and Doueh, regarding metal supply and repairs to Paynter's Lane, be referred to borough engineer; that application of J. !I. Sellars, for extension of sewers in Weymouth Street, 'be referred to borough engineer; that, in pursuance of powers vested in it by virtue of provisions of ..Municipal Corporations Act, 10OS, or of any other act or authority it thereunto enabling, the New Plymouth Borough Council hereby appoints Ernest Oswald Clayton to be borough engineer and surveyor for the borov.g'h of New Plymouth, inspector of buildings under section 30 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, lUI'3, inspecting officer under the provisions of part IX. of the New Plymouth borough 'by-laws, lO'lo, relating to the prevention of fire and the storage of dangerous goods, with full power and authority to perform, use or exercise, or to carry out or enforce the duties, powers, provisions, directions and discretions by the said New Plymouth bylaws, 1915, or any by-law of the council, the Municipal Corporations Act, 190S, the Public Health Act, 1908, or any other Act or authority reposed in or given to the borough engineer, borough surveyor, inspector of buildings or inspecting officer hereinbefore referred to. The Tramways Committee reported.— The question of the sand drift on the Breakwater Road was referred to the Works Committee; that upon Messrs. Shaw and Payne, contractors for the carshed buildings, signing undertaking submitted by architects and consulting engineer giving necessary certificate, the contractors be paid 5 per cent, maintenance money, amounting to £llß los: that chairman of Reserves Committee be authorised to arrange for removal of cabbage trees at r-arshed site, at no cost to tramways department. ELECTRIC' LIGHT COMMITTEE.

The committee reported.—That plate'dass fronts in sub-station buildings be insured in United Office; that committee could not adopt recommendation of electrical engineer to replace dear glass sirb-station office windows with obscured glass; that architect be instructed to arrange that one of windows in drawing ofliee sub-station building be made to open, cost not- to exceed .CIO; that Messrs. If. Skelton and Hawkins be informed that, provided they would enter into an undertaking to satisfaction of boroilgli solicitors, that net revenue from tw 0 connections for a period of live years should not be less than .ClO- per annum, council will, as -non as po-sible after new transmission ir.e was in n;c. make necessary conditions to enable their property. Smart Ros.l. to he connected; that electrical engineer be authorised to procure a -upplv of application forms, as drafted liv liiiu and submitted to committee, deletion of conditions of supply being confirmed by council; that upon ifns. i-\ K. I'nti, signing an undertaking, as id'eivd by her. to pay £2 per annum, n addition to ordinary charges/ alpeIrkal engineer be authorised to nxtend lighting mains in Itobson Street, to enable her residence to be connected, and nlso to instal two street lights, estimated c-st of C 4 1 ins.