BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1916, Page 8

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

CORRESPONDENCE CONSIDERED, j A meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council was held last evening. The Mayor (Mr. C. ,H. Burgess) presided, and others present were: Crs. W. A I Collis, J. W. I-Jayden, F. J. Hill, ,T. S. S. Medley, A. H. Johnstone, .T. T. Mannix, Tj. M. Monteath, W. F. Short. E. Griffiths, A. E. Watkins. F. E. Wilson, and S. J. Smith. The Council received the usual monthly reports from its officers and committees and adopted them. The reports were published yesterday morning. Subsequent to the Council, meeting, the Works Committee dealt v/ith correspondence. The Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department wrote stating that the value of the work already carried out in connection with the Wa'iwakaihc river weir amounted to £1450. A request for a further contribution of £4OO was made.—Granted. Three members of the Council's clerical staff applied for an increase of salary owing to war conditions and to the difficulty to make ends meet. On the recommendation of the Town Clerk, a 10 per cent, increase for the currency of the war was granted.

Messrs H. Brown & Co. drew the Council's attention to the road opposite their timber yard and factory in Morley Street., and said that at present the storm water deluged their premises in hcy.vy rain?. The engineer reported oh the condition of the read and suggested, alternative schemes to givj relief.

It was decided ask the writers to contribute towards t!w cost of the work. Mr. H. S. Breach as!:el the Council to supply him with tha permanent levels of his propsrty on Pnkenui P.oad', and the right to remove material for tlie purpose of giving him access to his property. It -was decided, ou the engineer's recommendation, to grant the request, the material removed to be used by the Council.

iir. D. HiittliM, writing oil behalf i--Ilr. T. Hood, referred to Ihe damage caused com; th.ia ago tj Mr. Hood> property m Dawson Street, adjoining the Mangotuku stream, and ;'aid it was duo to work done on tha footpath by the borough officials. The position had become ao bad that Mr. Hood had found it necessary to erect a substantial concrete retaining wall in order to preserve his house from imminent serious injury Mr. Hute'nen said he felt sura it would be recognined that Mr. Hood had sustained serious damage, for which the Council was responsible. The engineer, reporting on the maV ter, attributed the caust of Die slip to an overflow of water from a private pathway being diverted and by the concrete retaining wall fronting the property. The engineer said he considered the 'danger to the house as very remote. Any danger of subsidence would be due to a footpath cut .by the owner below tli? house. The remedy lay with Mr Hood by having,a retaining wall erected along the foot of his property parallel with the Mangoiu're stream/ It was decided, in view of the engineer's report, to take no action. I Messrs J. B. MaeEwan & Co. wrote stating that they had erected a fence along tha front* of their property in Egmoni Street as the Council had dolaired.—Received, ,