NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1919, Page 8

NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MEETING. ■ The monthly meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council was held last night, there being present: The Mayor (Mr C. 11. Burgess), Councillors J. Clarke, J. W. Hayden, F. J. Hill, W. If, Short, W. A. Collis, A. S. Brooker, 8. L. Parkin, &nd V. Griffiths. The various departmental official reports and the committee reports were received and adopted. A Teport on the proposal to adopt a system of general managership control of the borough was submitted, but consideration was deferred until to-night, when the meeting will be continued. GENERAL PURPOSES' COMMITTEE. A meeting of the General Purposes Committee waa subsequently held, the same councillors being present, when ■the following matters were dealt with:— The clerk of the Egmont County Council wrote regarding the merging of a portion of their county into the Waimate West County, and intimating that such a course would affect the revenue of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The county therefore asked the borough to consider the matter and afford any support it could. A commission has been appointed to hear evidence on the question. A letter was received from Messrs Roy and Nicholson, solicitors to the F.g'mont County Council, pointing out they were acting in the matter for the county, and that should the merges take place the rate in New Plymouth towards the HospitaJ and Charitable Aid Board would inevitably be increased. It was decided not to offer any objection to the merging proposal, Mr E. Griffiths wrote enclosing a letter from Mr G. Riddell in which ter offered to sell the section at the corner of Manaorei Road and Devon Street to the council. Mr Griffiths stited the owner had definitely declined to part with a strip of the land for the purpose of widening the road. The matter was referred .to the Finance Committee. The engineer reported on the proposed drainage extension from Devon Street to Mr Hunt's and Mr Tozer's properties. He stated the difficulties in the way of extending on the same alignment made t.lie thing impossible. He submitted an alternative scheme for getting pipes to Mr Tozer's allotment, necessitating «. length of 34- chains, which would serve three* sections. The cost would be £OB. The matter was referred to the engineer with a view to seeing if the owners would contribute towards the cost. The president and secretary of the General Laborers' Union wrote on behalf of the council's emnloyees asking that their wages should be raised from I-2s and 13s per day to 13s and 14s per day. The matter was referred to the engineer. Or. Griffiths submitted a report on the work TiTesearv to be done to the borough foreman's cottage in T,onion which the engineer estimated would cost £!H os. It was decided to earrj out the. repairs. It was also decided to increase the foreman's watres. by £1 per week, and to let the cottage to him for a rental of £1 per week. The council then adjourned until 7 o'clock this evening.