BOROUGH COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17291, 1 November 1921, Page 5

BOROUGH COUNCILS.

♦ RICCAETON. The Eiooarton Borough Couccil met laßt night. Present—Tlie Mayor of Riccarton (Mr A. D. Ford), Cw. G. A. Rankin, A. 10. Steere, A. F. Fisher, T. M. Ford, T. Sneli, W. C. W. Charters, and H. W. Wise. The financial statement for the month e>bowed that receipts totalled £583 46 7d, and expenditure £745 6a lOd. The bank balances were:—District fund (ct.) £9B 17s Bd, couth area loan (cr.) £127 3a 7d, and Sinking Fund C|omraril3flibn<Mß (inscribed stock £IOOO, bank balance £298 16s Sd (or.) £I2OB IBs Bd. The Electricity Commitlee'a. report stated that eleven new consumers hod been connected to the supply. Applications had been received from the New Zealand Railway Department for three 100 C.P. lamps to light Butler's siding, Alliance street. The lights had been arranged for at £3 per lamp per annum. The revenue for the last two months was £875, with a. maximum demand of 52 kilowatts. Twenty street lamps had been replaced. The Works Committee reported that approximately £6 chains of kerb and channel had been completed on Riccarton road, and 50 chains of the old kerb and channel had been taken out. The roadway was being formed and regraded as circumstances allowed. It was hoped that the whole of the work would be completed by Carnival Week. Rubbish was now being tipped in the new pit pt Middleton. The District Health Officer (Dr. T. F. Telford) wrote cancelling certain demands which had been made by him in regard to the Adrlington Saleyarde. Cr. H. W. Wise said that Dr. Telford was continually sending in demands for work- to be carried out. Every- member knew the saleyards were kept aa clean as possible, but when Dr. Telford demanded certain thing* to be done, the town clerk refused the saleyxrds their license until they should be completed. Then Dr. Telford overrode the Council and cancelled his demands. Dr. Telford 1 should read his letters before he put his signature to them. He proposed that "The Council protests against Dr. Telford sending demands and then overriding the decisions of the Council afterwards. Cr. Steere said the District Health Officer was probably a hard-worked man. He would support the motion, however. Finally it was decided that the following should be sent to the Health Office:—"That this Council protests against the District I Health Officer (Dt. T. F. Telford) demanding certain works to be carried out and then I afterwards cancelling them." A resolution of appreciation of the work | done by Mjessrs J. si. Chisholm and W. S. Fleming in planting trees in HaTakeke and Straven streets, was passed.