BOROUGH COUNCIL

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20898, 4 July 1933, Page 6

BOROUGH COUNCIL

NEW BRIGHTON. The fortnightly meeting of the New Brighton Borough Council was held last evening. Present: The Mayor (Mr E. A. M. Leaver), Crs. W. E. Wilkins, A. E. La wry, J. Orsborn, J. S. Ainsworth, W. L. A. Taylor, J. K. Worrall, T. E. Thomson, W. Hulme, and R. E. Holloway. The Estimates. , The estimates for the year 193334, which were passed, showed the estimated income cO be £3433. A debit balance of £2344 8s 9d was brought forward from last year, and the expenditure for the year is estimated at £7372 7s Gd, leaving an estimated deficit of £1283 lis 3d, which will show a reduction of £IO6O 12s 6d on the overdraft at the end of the financial year. The estimated income is made •up of rates 1933-34, £5180; rates from previous years estimated to produce £1250; Government subsidy on rates, licenses and fees, £690; sale or materials, £100; 5 per cent, on rates collected, £505. On tho expenditure side the principal outgoings are.* Administration £973, sanitary and general inspection £3OO, instalment Withell's £ll2, instalment Bowhill road £c\)o, unpaid accounts £134 lis 6d. mail'tenance. public works and general,. £5427 16s, the larger amounts comprising wages £2470, metal screenings, tar, etc., £550. stables and plant £4OO, roading plant maintenance £152, fire prevention £525. elections and polls £1.2?), reserves, gardens enclosures £125. interest and bank charges £4OO. General. The application of the New Brighton branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association for a site on the foreshore for a hall was refused after amendrnenls to take a plebiscite of ratepayers or. the question and to grant a lease subject to the necessary legal formalities being fulfilled had been defeated. The chairman of Ihe works committee <Cr. Wilkins) was appointed to represent the council at a meeting of the Conciliation Council on Thursday, July 13, when a dispute between various local bodies and the Canterbury Euilders' and General Labourers' Industrial Union of Workers will be heard. A letter was received from Mr W. Johnston and 47 others stating that as residents of South Brighton from Beatty street south they supported Mr E. F. C. Hinds' application for a renewal of his lease of a portion of the Jellicoe sireet reserve. They stated that he had improved and kept it clean and tidy and that by virtue of his attendance on the land at various times by day and night he kept unwelcome parties from the locality. On the motion of Cr. Woi-rall it was decided to grant a reversionary lease to Mr Hinds of the land now leased by him as fronr April 30, 1934, provided the rerrtal is increased to £l2 10s a year, that the public have the right of access to the reserve at all times, but that where the council approves of organised picnics the tenant shall be notified, also that the proposed buildings be first approved by the council as regards structure and location. The Chrisfchurch Drainage Board forwarded a special order levying a rate for New Brighton of 1-32 of a penny in the £.

Unemployment. The Mayor and Town Clerk <Mr C. T. Middleton) will approach the Christchurch City Council on the question of its calling a meeting of all local bodies in Canterbury to request the Government to provide more useful work for unemployed in the nature of comprehensive development schemes at full rates of pay, as moved by Cr. Worrall, it being considered that the decision of the City Council to call a meeting of the Metropolitan Relief Works Committee to consider the question of providing further suitable relief work did not fully comply with the intention of the council. A letter was received from the Minister for Employment (the Hon. A. Hamilton) stating that the Unemployment Board could not see its way clear to reinstate the maximum scale for all classes of relief workers, or to provide any further allocation. The Mayor reported that at a meeting of the New Brighton branch of the Metropolitan Pelief Committee it had been found that complete supplies of goods which had been indented from the central depot would not be in hand in time for distribution from the New Brighton det>ot to-day as bad been announced. The only goods available would be 26 carcases of meat and a large quantity of onions. Every effort would be made to obviate the necessity for relief workers to travel to the city to obtain relief, arid as the central depot insisted on the production of the white relief workers' card before rations were issued in New Brighton, those relief workers who were not provided with such cards should make application for them at the New Brighton depot as soon as possible.