BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1916, Page 6

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

JIOXTHLV REPORTS. Tiie following reports, for period ended Juno 311, will lie submitted to tlii; Borough Council to-night: fIXCMNKHR'S REPORT. .Mr. !■:. 0. Clayton reported:—Tlie baths takings for the month past were :t.'i Ss .Id. Corresponding month last year nil (not open). i Spillway at intake.—This work is progressing satisfactorily and should bo finished about the end' of this week. A ' first class job is being made, and when in use it will give relief from the present attendance on gates and risk of flood damage. Chilman St. and portion Waiwaka Terrace.—This work is being steadily proceeded with, whenever the weather permits, and will be completed in seven or eiuht clays. Maugorei road—The work of filling in the portion of dedicated 'j.round in front of the Girls' High School, and milking up path to Waiwaka 'lVrlaee, has been completed. Cnrriiigtnn road—The culvert has been replaced with I pipes where it recently caved in, and the metalling of the bail portions of the road | has been attended to. Waterworks—'l lie new mains have been laid in Chilman Street and the extension in (Men Road is being done. General—At present we ha.-e a number of small works authorised and vhie'i ore receiving attention, us follow!-:—Beaks' fencing and filling; louring near entrance to Cemetery; connecting streets into South Road; extension of sewer in Lemon Street; metalling roads; channel in Robe Street; new culvert in Gill Street; sewer ventilator in Barrett Street; kerbing Tiscli Avenue; repairs to engine shed; new hydrant Avenue Road; and general maintenance.

ELECTRICAL PLANT. Mr. 11. Black, electrical engineer, reports:— During the past quarter 44 new eonnoelions have been put on, making a total to date of 1730. The coils in'the (100(1 volt motors of the motor generator sets supplying power for the tramways which were burned out have been renewed, and both machines appear to be working satisfactorily Mr Parry, chief electrical engineer for '-e Public Works Depart meat, with Mr -Jiiimpton. Telegraph Engineer, visited hi; power house and inspected the lii'.-s on Smart and Junction Roads. Snni" further small protective devices are ?" inited, on which Mr. Parry will report ii lue course. Mr. Milne has the necessa)-, particulars and will proceed with u, work. I have given instructions fiv the lighting and telephone wires to the waterworks to be entirely disconnected .ran the transmission line. The lighting service can be replaced as soon as the transformers come to hand, earthing devices being fixed in the low tension circuit as required by the Public Works Department. The alarm arrangement asked for by the Council cannot be connected to the present telephone wires without sin approved protective device, and in any ease the present earth return cannot be put in as it renders the telephone between powerhouse and substation practically useless, Machine ;#iards have been lifted round the two 250 k.v.a. sets at the powerhouse as required by (he Inspector of Machinery and i guards have also been fitted for the! motor generator sets in the substation i and will be fixed after the tests now be- j ing made by -Mr. F. Black have been ; completed. | The electric light com"'-"-.,. ,„et o> ' duly n. Present: Cr. V"" ! " ! Uh (cln'r ■ rran), the Mayor. C'rs. i' ... .. .ind Wat kins. It was resolved that the applies tion of the electrical engineer for :■■ fortnight's leave be referred to the chair man with power to act; that, subject , to the audit bv the Cloven ment Auditor the balance sheet of the Electric Light Department be received. j ABATTOIRS. Mr. T. J. Reakes, in his report for ■"une, states that there were slaughtered for local consumption: cows 1(18, bullocks 18, calves 25, sheep (110. lambs i!S, pigs ■2O; tripes cleaned 173, and two calves heads and one set ox heels. Compared with the correspondinpl :,onth of last year they show an inercas. i-f five calves. 1(1 lambs and 13 pigs, and decrease of three cattle, 0(1 sheep and 1" tripes. Condemned, three cows and llir pigs. Slaughtered for export, nil. decrease of lot cattle and three calve Pees due for the month amount t Cll7 3s, rents £3 5s (id, a lc of CI? '.ls 3d. and a decrease of .L'3.j ISs (id. 1 have deferred planting the slidte. trees, authorised by the Council, because of the high cost of fencing materia! protect them. , RESERVES. The Reserves Committee met on .Time 11, when there were present: Crs. Collis (chairman), Hayden, Hill and Johnstone. It was agreed that Messrs. Webster Bros, be given a further extension, until Aug. 1 next, within which to comply with :hc provisions of their lease of storehouse reserve; that in view of the increased cost of living the sexton be granted an increase in salary at the rate of £lO per annum during the period of the war; that the chairman be requested to confer witli the Kawaroa Park Soeietv with reference I to the erection of the proposed wall at the Weymouth Street frontage of the reserve, and also with reference to the removal of sand from the reserve; that the Borough solicitors be instructed to prepare a clause changing the purpose of the present Town Tlall site to purposes of public utilitv with po\vcr> of leasing, and that the clause, when drafled. be forwarded to the member for the district with a request that lie 'Jiould endeavor to have .„ inserted in The Reserves and oilier Lands Disposal, and Public Bodies Kmpoweriug Act of the present session of Parliament; that 31, Avenue Road reserve, he withdrawn from leasing until such time as the question of deviation of Hendrie Street has been fully settled by the Council; that the works committee be informed that, provided ihev will fence oil' a portion of the east end of Lemon Street not at present iisnl as a roadway, and adjoining the entrance to the cemetery, the reserves committee will plant it and keep it in good order. It was resolved that the' New Plymouth physical culture class he informed that, in view of the intention to eon vert the old Town Tlall into a soldiers' club, the committee could not accede to the request for a room for physical culture classes; that the charges for the use of the Eitxroy Hall for ail meetingand functions of whatever nature held there be as follows: /.veilings 3s for first hour, and 2s (id per hour or part of un hour thereafter, daytime 2s (id per hour or part of an hour; that applications for the free use of the Kit'/.roy Hall for local functions, from time to time reifrived, be referred to the chairman with (power to act; that Mr. F. A. Lee be I "Hilled the grazing rights of section 7!>2 |for one year from July 17 next at a irental of Is per week payable quarterly ■ ii advance; that consideration of the correspondence with Miss StaUiam with reference to old soldiers' graves be deferred, and in the meantime the chair- , naftn ascertain the wishes of the Roman Vntholie denomination in regard to aol-

diers' graves in (heir portion of the cemetery; that the question of arranging certain exchanges of reserves with Ihe Harbor Board be referred to the chairman to make inquiries and report. THE TRAMWAYS. The engineer (Mr. R. 11.. Uartlcy) reports to the Borough Council as follows, on the working of the tramways for the month of Juno: This is tin' earliest period in which we can view the undertaking over one Month's working with both routes runring a complete time-table, and the records are: Main line route.—Mileage run, 12,208; passengers carried, 77.2-1!; revenue-per cir mile, 11, Id; passengers carried per mile, (i.28; average fare per passenger. l.7Cd; total fares, £570 Kis 7.1. ' j Morley-Eliot Street rout. Viie.i::.' ; run, 2501; passengers c.r i'i'- ''. ! ■>:■',:\ revenue per car mile, 7: : ; ■:■■ carried per mile, (1: avoraiM :,. . ,• ;.:!-. senger, I.URd; total fares. IS4 Ills 2d. Combined routes.—Mileage run, H.K.iM; |:<ssengcrs carried, fl2,.1(l(i; revenue per mile, KLod; passengers carried per mile, 112; average fare per passenger, 1.7(1; total fares, .tli'i") 15s '.ld. 1 think the records can be considered as satisfactory, but it must be remembered that the month includes one week of the Winter Show, which increased the revenue that week considerably. Plant.—Little or no trouble has been experienced with the plant over and .above the usual repairs and maintenance, and it can be considered as working well. ! have been aide to maintain an uninterrupted service. Time-tables.—l reported last month that the official time-table was about ready to be put into the printer's hands. This has now been done and satisfactory arrangements have been made for the printing. 1 e.vpecl the time-tables to be ready for the public on or about the 13th' inst.