VICTORIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1898, Page 2

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

The Public Works Committee of the Melrose Borough Council met on Tuesday night there being present — The Major (Mr. C. T. Browne) and Councillors Brunskill, Clark, Frost, Fullford, Key, Newell, Sidey, Welib, and "Wishart. (Councillors Fullford and Newell are the new members). The Secretary to the Wellington Gas Company interviewed the Committee upon the subject of gas supply to the Borough. The matter was referred to the Lighting Committee. The Committee decided to recommend: — 1. That the Lighting Committee be requested to furnish a report at next meeting of the Public Works Committee re the supply of gas, &c, within the borough. 2. That the sum of £25 be paid as a grant in aid of the maintenance of the Queen's Drive for 12 months. 3. That the report of the Inspector of Works be adopted. (The report referred to a number of borough works, and mentioned that upon the completion of the metalling of the Crescent at Eoseueatb, now in hand, it was proposed to resume the improvements to the Evans Bay-road, so as to obtain the subsidy from the Wellington City Council, and also to begin the work authorised to be done in the Ohiro-roadand Jackson-street, Brooklyn. An effort was being made to open a good quarry on the Evans Bay road -for supplying metal for Kilbirnie. The inspector recommends improvements being made to Duncan - terrace, Kilbirnie, and also that a portion of Moxham-avenue bo metalled.) 4. That Councillor Webb be •appointed on the committee to arrange for street extension of Vogeltown. 5." That the application for permission to remove metal from the side of the Evans Bay road be not entertained.