CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1189, 28 January 1864, Page 5

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

Monday, January 25. The Council met at the usual hour. Present: All the members. The following letters and papers were produced and read. Letter from the Provincial Secretary, dated 19th instant, acknowledging a letter from the Council in reference to clearing the River Avon. Letter from Mr. YV. Thomson on behalf of himself and Mr., Johnstone, in answer to one rrom the Council relative to the assessment of the ratepayers' roll. Letter from Dr. J. S. Turnlmll, calling the attention of the Council to a portion of Chester street where a large heap of manure had been deposited. The Inspector of Nuisances was instructed to attend to the matter. The Surveyor's weekly report was read and considered. Bills to the amount of £2i>7 lis were ordered to be paid. It was resolved that the City Surveyor be requested to check the present ratepayers' roll, and to put thereon such additional properties as rimy have l3een erected, or the property otherwise altered, in order to place the roll for the ensuing year in the hands of the assessors, and that he be authorised to employ sufficient surveyors to bring the ratepayers' roll into immediate operation, and that he have it completed by the Ist February. It was decided that 100 pans be ordered in accordance with the report of the Committee on Sewerage. It was resolved that the Inspector of Nuisances be directed to extend the limits of the district within which the closet-pans are to be adopted as follows: — luatn street on both sides, Montreal street, Mancbester street, Peterborough street on both sides, from Montreal street to Manchester street; Montreal street, from Tuam street to Peterborough street; and that he be authorised to exercise discretion in the order above given, and insist that the same rule be effectually carried out.

It was decided that the Inspector of Nuisances be instructed to prohibit the throwing out of houseslops on the surface of the streets, or in the gutters, and that he should inform the householders that they will be at liberty to run watertight cess-pools miderneath the footpaths or places accessible to

earts, subject to the approval of the City Surveyor and that this rule shall apply to the cess-pan dis tricts, and he gradually exercised in a similin manner.

Mr. 15. JJ. Bishop handed in a sketch of a large cess-^ool.

It was resolved that the tender of Iladfield Brothers, for the removal of refuse, slops, &c., should be accepted, and that it should commence, iE possible, from the Ist February.

The Inspector of Nuisances was directed to canse the dry rubbish and ashes in every house or yard to be placed in bins provided for that purpose, tlie same to be conveniently accessible to the contractor at stated periods for removal, and to see that this authority be exercised within the cess-pan district as before stated.

It was decided that the same district be also a locality within which the keeping of pigs shall he prohibited. The City Surveyor was authorised to remove the culvert on the Papanui road, if requisite, so as to proceed with the formation of the approaches to the new bridge. The Council then adjourned.