LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16515, 10 June 1919, Page 5

LYTTELTON NEWS

BOROUGH COUNCIL. The Lyttelton Borough Council mot last : evening.' Present—The Mayor (Mr W. T. : Lrterf, Crs. G. AC. Whitford, J. H. ColI lii» J. Gower, J. R. Webb, J. T..Norton, ' F. 6. Norton, G. S. Morris, and M. J. Miller. 1 It w&9 decided to cndorr*o a resolution pawed by the Waihi Borough Council: "That Uio i Cto\eminent bo aaked to bring down legiala- ' turn making Saturday th* statutory talf-hoii-I P. G. Norton and Mr P. HoTibs, town I clerk, were appointed to /upply particulars to the North Canterbury Hospital Board to assist that body in deciding whether to estabI Iwh a materaitf hospital. in Lyttelton. I On the motion of Cr. Miller,.seconded by Ct P. G. Nortc/n, it was decided that the instruction issued Dy the Health Department ; that the Canterbury Hotel premises, having 1 been condemned bo pulled down, should be | earned into effect. . . _ It was decided that the borough assist in carrying out the regulations regarding the destruction of rats, and the matter was referred to the Sanitary Comrar.tee with power Cr. Morris moved: "That the Post find Telegraph Department be again approached regarding the iitisuitabilicy of the locality in which the new slot telephone cabincthaabeen em-ted—the corner of • DuWtn street find Norwich Quay. The telephone should be placed in a more central portion, and another machine was required at West Lyttel*°siie Council agreed that the Department ebould be requested to shift the telephone Irom ita present position to the corner of London and Canterbury streets. The Li"hting Committee recommended that the price"of coko supplied from the municipal gasworks be raised from £1 l'2s Gd to £1 los let ton, and that tho price of tar be increased to eigfctpence per gallon.—Aaonto.l.