BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 May 1920, Page 5

BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

NEW PLYMOUTH COU^Otl^H ADJOURNED '^B An adjourned meeting of Plymouth Borough Council |Wm but night, there being br»«a»i* Mayor (Mr. Jas. Clarke) Havden, P. J. Hill, W. F. §hdrf Collis, A. S. Brooker. R. £ E. Sykes, and V. Griffiths. 1 >■; METAL SUPPLIES ' ;'<JH The district engineer Works Department (Mr. L, JKbell) wrote submitting a estimated prices of the foot station of the Mount from the Egmont cubic yards per 'annum, yard; 30,000 cubic yards, Tlgi cubic yards, 10s; and 60,000 Bs. It was asked if, with before tbem, the council wtLS to confirm its previously quiremefcts of 10,000 to yards per annum. The engineer reported that see no benefit by taking a supply the Egmont quarry, the dffleulS' in regard to a dump site at station and the cartage from the council's yards. Jt was. decided to inform the ment that the council could sot obtaining supplies at the STORAGE OF TOOLS. ffl Mr. M. Jones wrote further ia ftfljfl to his claim for storage of toot* shed by the council's employees, the council liad declined to Mr. Jones said the council's offiitrTSM two months' notice of what done, and yet the men continued the premises. He enclosed a list tools in the shed, and said, "I hufcjH a lock the door pending furftiflH . The list included 8 shovels 3 tramway shovels), 0 picks, 1 moXS hoes, 3. brooms and one iron wheelbarrow, bucket, draktfoul and iron rods, nuts, files, flpß The engineer reported that seen Mr. J ones, and, as he sjtjd ft JgflH official took over the shed, wae a moral liability. Apparenti/TH men thought, as the ]jH thought, that the old urinal HMM longed to the couricil. Mr. to reduce his claim from £5 7s. The electrical engineer | pay £2 and the engineer's departni£| would pay £2 7s. The shed «n useful, and in a convenient po4tioi : 4|S| the men's tools, The recommendation of the '(ffffel to pay the amended account waSijl proved. sewer extensiokr;' Mr. R. A. Large made renewed ml cation for the extension of thf aSS and water mains to his proMTw?, Ganc Street, in order, to facilitate fatw ing operations on the sections. The engineer reported that the ae# pipes could not be extended without i constructing the road, cutting and j|) ing kerbs and channels, as the «tteft»i( asked for is against the fall of t) street. , £ It was decided to inform Mr. Lan that the extension could not be made. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND TRAMWAY COMMITTEE. The above committee reported) ing the following recommendations** (a) That the electrical engineer be ft structed to submit estimates for ereg ing tram shelters at Eliot Stree Strandon, and Belt Road, and to inf oate on a plan the position in which is proposed the tram shelters should t> erected; (6) that the three shelter*,'! authorised, be erected in the order nihi tioned; (c/ that the seal of the «oU(iie)! be affixed to the agreement for till simply of electricity to the Farmers' Company, the terms being iii already approved by the council. ; The renort was adopted, with the ad dition of authority to the engineer jj engage an architect to prepare -dtauji for the tramway shelters, ' ■* CARNEGIE INSTITUTE COMMITTER The above committee reported as mil lows:—That the committee, Whilst mi preciating in every way the require; ments of the council, regrets that ; 1| cannot materially reduce the eatimatfel, 1 but assures the council that it wJJ exercise the-strictest economy with regard thereto; that the Worker*! Ccmnail Iw informed that the committee has Tift objection to either the Grey River Argute] or the Mnoriland Worker being placera on the table, but in view of 'the tfllul that the current estimates have haeft 1 prepaved, the committee is not in'a poll*! tion to subscribe for both papeni; that | the following be the subscription rates V] for the lending department of, shel library: (a) One subscription, fntitlijkf a tho subscriber to take one boob o£i| magazine on each occasion, 10s pari annum; (b) two subscriptions for niottrS liers of one family, 15s per annum; (e).'J three subscriptions ,£1 per annum; (ds!<l any subscriber to be permitted to tabtv! out one extra book on payment of Sdjj'S that all subscriptions be payable In ed*'£ vance either quarterly, half-yearly, of 3 yearly. ' Ifl The report was adopted. , 'iJ BLACKSMITHS' YARD?. • J| On the recommendation of the Purposes Committee tho following solution Was passed:—That in order enable the council to deal with null* ' ances caused by the keeping of horses,' etc., on restricted areas, such M yards! attached to blacksmiths' shops, the fol>' lowing amendments be made to th<i |aws: That by-law 1030 bfe amended'by) inserting after the words "are kept" toft the fourth line thereof the words Or oft any land of a less area than one rood, 1 , whereon any horse or other bealt of' draught or burden or any cattle aWH kept." That a new by-law be drafted-! to provide that where land as aboye, bf:' reason of its use for tho purpose* men-\ tioned, has become, or in the opiniin of.; the council is likely to become, a ance or injurious to health, the COVS«Q~i may by notice served upon the Otrner j or occupier roquire the said land to lH.j covered v;tb concrete or asphalt tf.iks » satisfaction of .the borough proper falls to be arranged to surface j channels delivering into a trapped connected with the sewers. ■ |