CITY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 311, 25 September 1908, Page 8

CITY COUNCIL.

FORTNIGHTLY MEETING. _ The fortnightly meeting of the City. Corn*. cil was held last night. There- were, present: The Mayor (Hon. T. AV; Hislop) and Councillors Luke, Smith, Cohen, Baflinger, Hales, Fisher, . M.P., Fletcher, Biss, Hmdmarsh, M'Laren, • Morrah, Carmichael, and Murdoch; • '• •

The Baths and City Reserves Committee reported that the superintendent of reserves had planted 5480 trees on the Town Belt on each side of the Brooklyn-tramline, and 2250 mixed trees and shrubs-had been planted od the Town Belt'at Oriental Bay.

1 The report was adopted. ■ - The By-laws and Street Lighting Committee recommended that the of an express driver who was recently, convicted for bad behaviour be cancelled; that a double bracket for streetiaiiips and'fire alarm" lamps, recommended by the electrical engineer, be adopted, - and fourteen of the pattern be ordered, at a cost of about £20. The committee reported that they had received a plan from tho city engineer, showing two different types of gully traps, an ordinary disconnecter for receiving bath waste, and a silt or stable trap, and liad" to recommend that tho types be adopted for the city,, and that copies of the plan be forwarded to'tho different makers /of trans. 1 The report; was adopted. The Financ'o and Property Committee recommended that the application of, the residents of Macfarlane Street. Extension to havo the extension connected to Lower Macfarlane Street he not acceded to; that the request of the Kelbnrne and -Karon Company for an ■extension of ono year (three years in all) of the tenure of the camera obscura .at •Kelburne be granted, provided the council have, the right to t-pke it over at the expiration of. the term at a valuation.

' .The report was adopted. The Power Stations and Tramways Com-. mitteo reported that thev had , been, waited. on by ,a deputation of Island Bay residents, who urged that the council should" issue' ;weekly'.,or monthly tickets, entitling tlio' holder to travel once-earh way daily (Sim-: days excepted) over sections-1 to 4, inclusive, , of the Island Bay route, at the rate of 2s. per week or Bs. per calendar month, and that they were going carefully into tile ques- 1 tion, and would report at a later date. The report was adopted.