CITY COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13902, 29 November 1910, Page 8

CITY COUNCIL.

The City Council met last night. Present:—The Mayor (Mr C. Allison), Crs. Cooper, Gapes, Dougall, Otley, Liorsky, Forrester, Taylor, Hyde, Williams, Tharker, iSorensen, Morris, Parsons, and Webb.

Accounts amounting to £7381 were parsed for payment. The Hands and Organ Committee, after carefully considering tbe position of Mr J" A. Frostick in connection with the recent Supreme Court case which was decided against him, recommended that the organ stops and materials left on his hands be taken over at cost price, and that his expenses in defending the action be paid by the Council.

The report was adopted. The By-laws and Finance Committee reported that they did not care to express an opinion on the working of the rutins on unimproved value system, as requested by the Valuer-General. The Minister having declined to exempt the portion of Rossall street, lying between Lei lister road and Wairarapa terrace road from section 117 of the Public Works Act, the Committee reported that nothing further could be done. The Council was recommended to accept ihe conveyance of the right-of-way between Cathedral square and Hereford street, without the reservations proposed by Mr H. Cotterill, on behalf of tile owners.

Tim report was agreed to. The Works Committee recommended that the tender of Messrs Packer and Jones for the construction of a culvert on .Shirley road, at £'210. be accepted. The Council was recommended to pay £100, half of the estimated cost of widening .Strickland street. The Heathcote- Road Board, having offered to erect a bridge over the Avon between Swarm's road and Retreat road if the Council paid half the cost (£350), tlie committee" recommended that the proposal be accepted, provided tue City Surveyor was satisfied with the girders in the lift portion of the old Heathcote bridge, which it was proposed to use in the bridge. The report was agreed to. The. 'Mayor, replying to Cr. Thackrr. stated that no reply had been received by the Council from the Government regarding the request that the Provincial Council Chambers site should be handed over to the Council for a Town Hall.

On the motion of Cr. Morris, the Baths Committee was given power to arrange for setting apart certain hours at the Tepid Baths tor mixed bathing by families. The Works Committee was authorised to purchase two water waggons.

Word has Wn received that £2-3,000 is the purchase price paid by an A>tfitialian syndicate for the rights of Mr Felix Tanners .apparatus for preventing the racing of marine: engines. This invention, vrliitih has met with so mvn success, was patented, and securely protected all over the world only a few weeks ago, by Messrs Baldwin and Rayward, the well-known patent agents. G