BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1920, Page 5

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

.MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the New PI.V-* mouth Rorough Council was held last night, there being present the Mayor (Mr .las. Clarke), Crs. J. W. Hasen, «■'. F. Short, A. S lirooker, B. L. Parkin. V. Griffiths, and W. A. Collh. All apolofM for absence was received from t'r. F. J. Hill. MONTHLY REPORTS. The official and departmental reports from the various officers were and adopted, as were also 'the committed reports. . •* GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE, Subsequently a meeting of the General Purposes Committee was held, the same Councillors being present, when the following matters were dealt with!—' CARRINGTON ROAD. A letter was received from Mr. Georgo Grey, on behalf of Mr. Richard Cook, in reply to an interview with him by Crs. Griffiths and Short, stating that ha had offered to dedicate free of coat, & strip of land on his frontage, 10 feety deep at the Mill Road corner and tapering away to nothing i n a straight lilrt t.n the bottom boundary of his property,* also to give a further pieco of .land, in addition to the It) feet, for the purpose of rounding on" the entrance to MM iload. He also agreed to erect the stone wall as originally offered to the old Carrington Road Board, notwithstanding the offer had lapsed in i'9lo— The Council decided to accept the offer with thanks, members speaking appreciatively of tlit? generous manner in which Mr. Cock had met thorn over the fiiatter.

hydro-electric extensions. The engineers (Messrs Blair, Mason ami Lee) reported on the progress of No. 1 Contract in connection with too hydro-electric extension works. The excavations to the top of the intake chain-' . bcr were completed. This tunnel was completed to 189 feet with concrete lining of sides and invert to 82 feet There had been considerable falling away of the sidea of the excavation and an endeavor was being made to keep the, lining as close to the face as possible Work was going oh a little more slowlv i just now on account of neveraj men being down with Influenza

GENERAL. A request was received from the New Plymouth Beautifying Society to be in- « eluded in the list of Sooiet.ies for t!!» support ol which a Borough subsidy is granted.—The matter was referred to the Estimates Committee.

The engineer submitted a report on a request for the extension of the water service to Cnine Street, the estimated cost of which would be £O2 12s.—Tt was decided to do the work provided the applicant contributed £'4o towards the cost- ' •