BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1916, Page 8

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

WORKS COMMITTEE, The Aveekly meeting of the above committee was held last evening. Present: His Worship the Mayor (Mr. 0. H. Burgess). Crs. A. E.' Watkins, J. T. Manmx, S. fi. Smith. V. J. Hill. W. F. Short, F. E. Wilson, J. Havdcn, J. S. S. Medley, L. M. Monteatli. George Walker and eight other ratepayers petitioned the Council to have Paynters Lane altered to Paynter's Avenue.—Agreed to. The engineer reported that his estimate for forming and metalling Waiwaka Terrace, from Mangorei fioad to the old railway bridge, was £l5O, and metalling from there to Watson Street £22 10s.

The Engineer reported that since he had made his previous report regarding top-dressing the various tarred streets within the borough, and also the tramroute, he had gone into the question of cost if. instead of using soltar, distilled tar was used. The result was: — The whole of the tarred streets (1?5,181 square yards), is treated with •Jistilled tar would show a saving of .£1127 2s fld.

The tram route (area 118,021 square vards), sojtar t3*.2G (is 4d, distilled tar '.t2347 15»; saving- ,€OBB fls. Tram lines, plus ISin. margin on each side (area ■20,147 squsrc yards), soltar £BIO 15s Gd. distilled tar £S7O 17s 7<l; saving £242 17s lid.

"The question arises: would the distilled tar be satisfactory as a dressing on the sojtar and restar? I can say that it would, and this can easily be demonstrated by applying it for a short section and seeing the results. In the maintenance of the tarred streets, whatever material is used for the topdressing, it is of tlie utmost importance that the present sumce be thoroughly cleaned off, no dust being allowed to remain, and in many places tl|e surface to be I hosed down and the new topdressing applied immediately the surface U dry. The material used for blinding should he' very coarse sand or fine gravel, nil screened'' to a uniform size. The blinding material should/be obtained in advance and applied in as dry a state as nossible."

/"■. V. Jones, Frankley 'Road, wrote ■saying -that he could not see 'his way to'accept the Council's offer of £25 for the land required for the road encroachment on his property. The matter of leading storm water oil' Avenue "Road through the High School property was left to the sub-com-mittee to deal 'with.