BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 8 March 1912, Page 3

BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The montily meeting of the Birkenhead Borough .Council was held, last eTeulng. Present: Messrs J. ft. Kay.. (Major), F. X. King. J. p. McPhaa, W. Wanaee. C. O. Campbell. J. w. Court. A. G. Barllett, X. McGlnniss, F. Finch, and T. Church. Lancaster Landing.—Tie secretary of the Ancfcland Harbour Hoard wrote, in rejrty r» a communication from the Council asktac for a landing stage at the end of Lac-aster-road, Birkdule. stating that the Board could not see ita way to accede to the request, on account of the cost entailed, also drawtnc toe attention of the Council to a previous decision arrived at By the" Board.—The letter was received. Solicitor* He Contract Bond,—A letter enclosing bond of agreement entered into witfi contract No. 3 of the waterworks caotract. and specifications by the engineer (H. H. Metcalfe and Sow, was sheared from Messrs Buddie and Button, solicitors, who also forwarded.tb<> necessary papers, of-non-admission of claim by the Council In tha matter of compensation in connection with the pumping- station site at Lake Tatapuna, and asking for the Council's signature thereto.—lt was resolved that the papers be signed as requested. - , State Advances Re Loan.—The Superintendent of the State Advances Department R-rote stating that £l2,onr». less, rnmmlsv slon deducted, bad been lodged at the Post Office to tb-? credit of the Council In connection -with the waterworks loan.

Bathing Shed.— Mr M. Thompson -applied for a permit to erect a. bathing shed at the foot of Northcote-terrace.— It was decide)] to grant the application. Building Permits.—Permits were grunt** to Messrs F. Bobertson. K. Shepherd, B. Keyes, and M. Thompson for the erection of dwejling-houses In tbe boroogli. Supply of Pipes.—Messrs B. Pprter and To., contractors for tbe sat ply of pipes etc, for the !to. l contract, baring landed ■ boat £SOOO worth of material on rhe Blr. fconhead wharf, a fl'st certificate authorising CMOO on account m-ag forwarded by the engineer (Mr H. Metcalfei. On tbe motion of the Mayor It was resolved that the amount be passed for payment. Sickness at Chelsea:—An outbreak of Illness having occurred at the Sugar Works, the manager of the Colonial' Sugar Company was written to requesting bis attention to the matter, and a letter was received" notifying the Council that the matter of drainage, etc., emanating from the partienlar dwelling affected, had been attended to. Septic Tank.—The Board of Education having decided to..grant nae-tbitd. of 'h« cost of Installing- a septic- tanlr irnd effluent pipp f£3o» in the Northcote school grounds a letter was read from the Board statins that it will undertake to proceed with the erection of the tank on condition that the pipe is completed, and the other two-tblrds or the apportioned by tbe Birkenhead, Northcote. and TTaltemata Councils, it was- agreed-to eontrttont* £3ft;>and Crs. F. M. King and J. W. Court were appointed delegates to . confer with tn.« architect nnd '-lialrmar of the Beard respecting fhls matter. 'Bus Time-tables.—Meats H. and J. Oldham. *hns proprietors, wrote snWßtftlnc a time-table of trip from tbe w%arf, and complained that It was Impossible to kec» up anything Itke a time-table on account of tbe state of the main road hetwerti Tele-phone-road and the upper end of Crescentroad- fn view of the considerable loss of traffic, tbey asked that the Conner! pay * snbsldy towards the maintenance of tbe service. Crs. Wallace. McPnalV,- and Maglnnlss were appointed a snb-commirtew to deal with the time-table as submitted, and on the motion of Cr. Campbell, it was? decided that Council do not entertain a»T proposal whatever In the matter of a subsidy. Special Rate on .Loan.—A special rate of cne-tMrd of a benny 'n tbe nonnd »»• directed to be struck. In accordance wtfn the Instructions from the State AdT'n-ea Department relating to tbe loan <<I*IJ set apart for road work*. towspelerk Dolnted out that this rate will not be collected this year, but It will be neeeasarv. as security for the loan, to bare tbe rate struck In order to comply with tbe provision* of tbe Act. Steps to 'Wbarf.—lt waa more* tut rres» tenders be Invited from the local btnTderw for fhe erection of steps In iarrah leading down the cliff" at tbe rear -»f the Scouts" H»n. and connecting wttn tbe sooth end «f Patmerston-road. Pahnerstnn-rnad.— Tt was agreed to 21*7* the portions or this road running Into T"** phone-read, and connecting wtrb Cieaeentroad, fascrned at once, on seeoßPt »f tb# vehicular trsHlc hehwr diverted from **• main road owlnr to tie road being In »• contractor's bands. f

Mr. Havelock Wilson, ex-M.P. for Middlesborough, who is shortly to visit Hotorua. in search of a cure for his Theumattsm. has had an interesting career. Born at RuHderlamd in- I*sß, he is now in his 54th,year, and aa a start he was apprenticed to a_ lithographic printer. After some experience in that capacity, he evidently found that there was more colour on his Sands than in his Bfe and went awav to sea, and'there he spent the Tiext 13 years of his existence. Oi his return to* his native town, he started a dining room, and in his leisure addressed. himself to the leviathan task of Bringing about a combination among so continual! v a shifting a set of people as the seafaring classes. In 1&87 however, he bought his idea to fruition* and cstahlished "the National Amalgamated Sailors and Firemen's Union, which has a vast membership and a very big annual income. In his position as secretary j he ha* had to meet a gooddeal of hostile criticism upon his methods of management, but these he has brushed aside, and still remains in undisputed control. He took a leading part in the dock strikes at Cardiff in MOOT, and had JtO do sis weeks' imprisonment for "™«ja' ,r----fullv assembling." He was elected t» the' House of. Commons in s lß92 and IMS, but in WOO he 1o«t his seat by 96 votea. In T906 however," he" regained the. 3Bfli dlesborough seat by. the eoinfoTtabUMßajj ority of 2381. over his previous victor, .Sir Samuel Sadler, the Conservative eanjdidate, but in the. elections" of 1910' ha i did not contest the seat. I A welt-known American dietetic expert. Dr. Fretcher. has just completed a t*»o ! months' diet of potatoes and margarine, i He lived in the most fashionable hotel 'in Copenhagen, but limited his daily I man it to from two to four pounds of j potatoes, and from 1 J'W to 4oz of nwr- ! garine. anrt his only drink was, water. He ;-ays h* never felt so well, and will 'now continue the same diet from choice. i Although Petone, near Wellington, has ; a population of about seven thousand, it is without a sanitary, sewerage system, !and the sanitary service in vogue costs about £IBOO a year. A scheme has aow been prepared to'cost £40,000, bat it is suggested of substituting driven pumps for the Shoo* method nf lSfimg sewage.