Lyttelton Borough Council Meets

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28958, 28 July 1959, Page 15

Lyttelton Borough Council Meets

When he complained to the Town Clerk (Mr J. Thompson) about an account for £7 13s 9d for gas, which he described as being mostly air, he received a reply that was far from satisfactory, said a Voelas road resident, Mr W. H. Davey, in a letter received at a meeting of the Lyttelton Borough Council last evening He refused to pay the full amount and the next thing he knew was that a council employee called at his house to install a “bob-in-the-slot” meter He told the man to take it away and had since done without gas Mr Davey asked that the gas be reconnected, and made an offer of £3 in settlement of his account.

The matter was left to Cr. F Barrett (chairman of the gasworks committee) and the Town Clerk, with power to act. An application for permission to park a mobile ice-cream and soft drink trailer at the top of Evans Pass road was made by a firm of ice-cream vendors. The meeting resolved that a report on the application be presented at the next meeting.

A complaint that residents of Diamond Harbour were leaving stock gates open when using a borough reserve as a thoroughfare was received from Gebbie, Brothers, lessees of the reserve. They asked if the council would object to their locking the gates The council decided to permit the gates to be locked; The new carbonising plant was now producing and the old plant was shut down on July 18, said the gas manager (Mr E. Turner) in a report to the council. An obstruction in the inlet pipe to one of the holders was being cleared. The new plant will be officially opened on August 8.