ONSLOW BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 685, 9 December 1909, Page 9

ONSLOW BOROUGH COUNCIL.

'' At a- meeting : of the Onslow Borough, Council last;evening, presided over, by ■ tho' Mayor, Mr. 'J. G. - Harkues3, an offer to sell a. strip'of land at Khandallah/ owned by, Mrs. Roid, of Upper Willis' Street, for road purposcs, : trn's. declined. Mr. Alexander Falls wfis granted; permission to enclose with rabbit-netting-a piece -ofcounoil land leased: by him: in Clark Street, such netting to be the..subject, of, compensation if tho:council/terminates his lease .within.- three year's. ■-'- "■:■■''' : '-;;'■'' ;-■'■:;■; ;; - ! '■'■■■•'•'■ ",V ■..'•■'''■"' ■■".''"■■ ■! : 1V . Messrs; .M'Carthy; and Co.wofe granted per- 1 mission 'to.placo '•. a steel bridge , over tho K aiwarra Stream on the .usual conditions;".; .-y :■ The Granger;' in his report, recommended- the placing of cattle' stops at the. railway cross: uig at Khandallah; -; It /was pointed out, however, that this:.wos impracticable, as the platform itself extended'to tho crossing; and that in any case/tho council would not bo responsible for: any trouble arising from stock straying upon tho 'line.''" It was accordingly decided to take no .action in'tho matter..,. : In. reforence to tho proposed tramway, it was resolved to grant the further concession that, at the end ,of the 35 years; the Cashmero Estate Company could continuo running its trams,.till tho council purchased the rolling stock at a valuation. An application of the Cashmere Estate Company for the naming of streets' 'was < agreed to.; Tho" council approved the jilans of streets already formed'on tho estate, subject' to a maintenance deposit of but' declined to receive a/bond of the directors in lieu of cash concerning mods not yet formed. "A proposal to call one of the Cashmere Estate streets "St. Ijauronce Crescont" was met with the objection that- a":-Liiufence ; Street, already' oxisted,: at Ngaio. ; The name "was, however, sanctioned.. . Councillor Linneberg suggested that the: City Council should be asked to oxterid into the borough' the electric light, which already reached the boundary. He pointed out that-it would: bo; chenper than gas by il per light; Tho. suggestion-was; agreed to. . ~' •'..■ln reply ,to Messrs. Thomson and.Brown; at was decided to .state .that tho. council has no land, carrying, matured bush, for. sale,.,as -it was'all required for the:catchment area. ■:: y : : The dog,, taxes, wcro fixed at 2s. .Cd. forstock dogs,; and: 55.. ;fo.r. pth.ery dogs.^atjd'.the^ranger