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Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1919, Page 6

STREETS SUB-COMMITTEE^

The streets sub-committee made the following recommendations to the New Plymouth Borough Council at Wednesday's meeting:—

That the borough engineer be authorised to carry out the following work in Gover street from Devon Street to John Street: (a) Regrade, tar and sand footpaths; (b) kerb and channel footpaths where rot already done; (c) Tar penetrate and seal Gover hill; (d) Resurface or patch balance of roadway and tar seal same. Total estimated cost. £I4OO 15s lOd. Note—Provision for the above amount is made as follows: £3OOO loan (being 10 per cent, additional on £42,000 loan allocated to Gover street but not authorised, £lO4, 14s 9d; £3OOO loan authorised October 30, 1917, k. and c. path Devon street to Courtenay both sides, £7O 3s 4d; £3OOO loan authorised October 30, 1917, metalling Devon to Courtenay streets, £122 9s lid; contributed from Taranaki Jockey Club, as per resolution (3) hereof," £450; £IO,OOO loan allocated to Gover street, £685; £IO.OOO loan footpath vote, £77 7s lOd; total. £ MOD 15s lOd.

That the above work be charged to the £3OOO and £ 10,000 loans in the amounts mentioned, the £450 to be charged to sraneral account until repaid by the Taranaki Jockey Club. • That the offer of the Taranaki Jockey Club to contribute £l5O per annum for three years towards the cost of the above work in Gover street be accepted provided the Club agrees to amend the condition, attached to it 3 offer to provide that Gover Hill shall be completed by by December 1, 1919, and the balance of the work as soon as possible thereafter. That in view of more urgent work requiring attention, and also in view of the labor required to remove the bank of earth now on the path the borough engineer be instructed not to proceed with the kerbing and channeling of the footpath in Eliot street from Pendarves street to Hendrie street but that in the meantime the present channelling be tar Ted and the foothpath put in orderThat the borough engineer 'be authorised to erect sand screeim conveyor and motor at the Lemon street yards at an estimated cost of £3OO.

That the borough engineer be authorised to construct a concrete platform at the Lemon street yards at an estimated cost of £BO.

That the borough engineer be authorised to arrange for a temporary lease of a section adjoining the Lemon street yards for storage purposes. That the borough solicitors be instructed to advise in regard to the Council's rights of drainage into the watercourse on Mr. L. B. Webster's property, Vivian street.

That a street light be installed at the corner of Dartmoor Avenue and Dorset Avenue, and one also at the corner of Paynter's Avenue and Ngaio street if approved after inspection by the sub-com-mittee, » Ths report was adopted.