CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue L, 3 December 1895, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL.

As the Unemployed Relief Fund Ball is to be held on Thursday evening, the "fortnightly meeting of the City Counoil is to bo postponed until Monday next. Ihe Public Works Committee met last evening, and decided to recommend as follows:— That the request of Messrs. Penty and Forde with respeot to the outer walls of a building to be creoted for Mr. W. F. Shortt in Willis street be not acceded to ; that the City Surveyor be instructed to see that the provisions of the Sanitary Bylaw are complied with in the case of the cottage proposed to be ereoted by Mr. A. Wilson, Constable-street ; that the deoision of the Counoil with respeot to the verandah proposed to be ereoted at the premises of Messrs. Wardell Bros, bo adhered to ; that the plans for Te Aro Baths, Bent iv by the City Surveyor, be approved by the Counoil, and sent on to the Harbour Board for their approval also; that a notice-board be ereoted at the south end of Wallaoe-Btreet, warning persons against depositing rubbish there ; that a reply, in terms of the City Surveyor's report, be sent to the following persons .—Mr. E. Player, re Baining-street ; Mr. M. Segrief, re Martin-street; Mr. J. C. Andrew, re Upper Pine-street ; Engineer Railway Department, re water service asked for at Petone ; that the request for footpath aud repairs at Wallace-street and Wright-street be taken into consideration when the estimates for next financial year are being made up, and that in the meantime the half-width asphalting be continued to the end of the houses on the south end of Wallace - street ; that a water service be laid in the manner suggested by the City Surveyor to serve the houses now being ereoted on the Salamamu-road ; that the suggestion of the Technical School, as to examination of plumbers coming to Wellington from other parts of the colony, be adopted ; that consent be given to tbe mortgage of Pahiatua laud applied for by Messrs. Kirk, Atkinson, & Wilson; that Jupp's Private Band be allowed to play at the Basin Reserve on Suuday next, and to take a collection at the gates in aid of the uniform fund ; that the Morgue be painted, and such repairs oarried out as are found necessary ; that suoh work as is neoessary be done to carry off the storm-water from the Town Belt at the back of Mr. Swan'a propetty, Scar-borough-terrace. The Library Committee will recommendThat the thanks of the Counoil be Bent to the following donors of books :— John Mosb, Western Australian Government, Victorian Government, G. Leslie. That the Library be olosed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day, but that the readingrooms be opened at 7 p.m. on Boxing Day. That the Librarian be granted his annual two weeks' holiday from 6th January. That the Librarian bo instructed to prepare a supplementary oatalogue of the new books in the lending-library. That the Library Committee be appointed a deputation to interview the Colonial Socretary with a view to obtaining for the Public Library the remnants of the Wellington Provinoial Library, now houßed at the Colonial Museum.