MELROSE LOANS. POLLS FOR TRAMWAYS AND STKEET WORKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 131, 3 June 1904, Page 2

MELROSE LOANS. POLLS FOR TRAMWAYS AND STKEET WORKS.

It. had heon anticipated that an extoiulod lepoi ton (ho subject oi tlie e.vieucwuu of the eocene twumv.^b to llio Mulrosu piuUuu oL ihn borough would hnvo been piejuu9cufa*d to tho Uity Cuuuoil kit night. TiiD Comnutico, huwuver, nindo only tho lolloumg bhovi icpoit: — 'iuo ouimntiicu uavo to lecuunneud .'—. (!■) xual iuo ifiUiinuy ioau pio^o-adls for luo .uo.iostf \wuii 00 Huonuueu 10 tho Uilo[myeitt ol lUclloic iu> Oiio iouu lor thu wjioio \wiiil. (t,) Hint, tiio ionu ior iircet liuyiuvuininu 00 '^uuuuiiuU to llio lute11 l tiie sumo Umo us iuo it&uiiwty louii ; ami 10) thftt tne niceuug in connection Hit.ii me t oniia be lio.d m it,muU »J^. J.he i»la^or niovea Uic daopuou 01 thu upoit. "llxa jiusuion was iJi«t avoiding li> tiio uniatjuuialiun a&iecniotit bctuaeu Uio Uity und llio Boiuugn 01 Melro&ti, it aeviucu an a tHruo puns woie u> bo taken 111 tiio tLrte uiliuiont aihincto ul tiiu buiougU, aim three stijuuno rates Struck ill UlOaO UlotliULS. lioukiiig UltO tJiu mabici it tecuaa to somu nanibeis oi iue Ounuuatco Uuit lor the puinu&o ol but lowing moucy tin* anaiigcmui would bo a mihuiko, ana 11 wouia no jjieior<.,bjo to boiro\s tho money Uh over iue wliolo wan. uihLc«d oi 111 tlw fcopttiioto diainctb. 'ilie Loinuiiliee aocoruiutjiy rucoiuincnued Hint Lilly bo aouu. Uo-uuumor i'ro*t seconded the adoption of tho lejjurt. Councilor Barber suggested thut it wou»d be deMniljie to iioid meetmga in click district, otherwise it migut eiiuunger the poll. Tho latepaycrs aa a wdio.e wero entitled to have ilie matter oxp.aincti to tdieiii 1 > , Councillor M'Larcn took tho «>amo ob. • jectiou. - " , ' Councillor Devine • oppp&ed tho report "on the grouud that at recommended a departuie irom the agvev'ntunt. There soemed ■to be a "cofiapuucy of silence" reapectmg \k?> agrecmont. That docu-mwit-tskpressiy' sUp,UittteU that the loan proposals bo bubmittod to each disuicl jyffootedj and. he did not feol iiiciinod bo tuko tlte fc6pont>ibillty of departing from- the agreement. Ho a.&o thought thao tho propo^s .for widening Olmo-roftd and rertuemg tha grade of Cou-ntable-street should bo included in tho questions to go to the poll. Tho Mayor said thut would he> douo. Councillor Devino moved that clauses 1 and 3 of tho report bo referred back to .the Committee, with tho object of.tho recommendations being bi ought into line with tho Melroso agreement. .Councillor Smith seconded the amendment. -Ho u.ko thought (he ratopaytua in tho different districts were entitled to suy whether they wanted the loan or not to apply to their dibit ict. CouuciJ'ir Luke wished the Council to go 1, away from the agreement a» soon as it .could. Bo long as rhey worked on legal lines 1 and were bfcckod up by tbo City Solicitor, they would bo alright. Ho wished to see this vole taken us soon as •possible Councillor Devintj'a motion meant delay. councillor Jorgcnson said that the recommcmiationH of the Committee met with Uio iipjnova) of tho Me! rose representatives. They wtre on broader lines than tliu agrcemont, but were wcU within its flpiiit. Councillor Izard urged tho Council not to attempt to make the loan cover tho whole district, or it would firobubly be thrown out, whereat if it was put before the suburban ratepayers in sections these tramways were certainties. TJie amendment \shm lost on division by 12 volcu to 3, and tho report was adopted. ' Councillor Barber then moved that meetings should be held oi Island Bay, Brooklyn, and Kilbirnic, but tho was lost on the voices. Later in the evening- the following recommendation by -the Public Work* Committee was also adopted : — "That the tramway system to Brooklyn bo extended to .Harrison-street from tho prwent proposed tbrminus, the additioiial co»t to bo added to tho Brooklyn loan, xfa.j J86U0."