KARORI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 50, 1 March 1905, Page 2

KARORI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Tho Knrori Borough Council mot last night. Councillor llciuloi.son presided in the. early part of tho meeting, and the Mayor (Mr. Pcarce) in tho latter purl. There wero alwn pnvtcnt Councillors Cook, Daii'iit, Russell, Newconibe, Spieis, and Williams. A letter was received from Mr. Leonard Hill asking tho Council to give power to its Works Committoo to pa&s roads on the Baniutlyno EwUito. Tho lequest was mado *o that the writer's depart uio for England might bo facilitated. Hy the ('hciirman'H casting vote it was decided that the request could not bo granted, as it would establish a bad precedent. It wan then decided on the voices that the Works Committee be requested to m.iko a report on the matter. Tho Mayor was appointed to bo one of tho deputation of representatives of local bodies now being organised by tho Horowhenua County Council to approach tho Government with n, request that .steps bo taken to ensure that more economical and equitJiblo levies will be made on locul bodies to meet tho cost of hospital and charitable aid. At tlm stage tho Mayor (Mr. Pearce) attended and took the chnii. A reqiioist from Mr. A. Duggan thai ho be givou permission to build a. dwelling on port of section 6, Karori, prior to tho road in tljat vicinity being taken over by tho Council, was referred to tho Public Works Committee for a .report The Works Committee, recommended that Peers-street bo f owned 40fb wide with a crown of twelve inches in tho contro. , . . pipes to bo twolve inches in gullies and a six-inch culvert to be placed nine inches from tho boundary oi the property where the street joins Mac-donald-stroet; also that a footpath nino foot wido be formed on tho south-woit side of the road. The Council acted on the recommendation. The Works Committee recommended, in respect to Mr. Oapes's street, that conditional on Mr. Gapes dedicating a piece of land 1 one chain wide to connect the end of tho pioposed street with the military road, and consenting to form a footpath thereon, the Council should allow Mr. Gapes to foim his street, 25ft wide, metalled with first-clnt« metal broken to a 2Jin guugo and spread' evenly to a thickness of six inches. The commilteo further lecommended that should Mr. Gapes not conmnt to dedicate the connection tho Council stipulate for a formation 31ft wido with a footpath on tTio west side. It was moved by Councillor Dascnt, and seconded by Councillor Hendcison, that the clnu.so bo deleted, and that the plans submitted by Mr. Gapes bo returned, the Council recommending thnt Mr. 1 Gapes dedicate to the Council tho land between the military road nnd tho proposed now road, and that the proposed new road bo mado 66ft wido. This motion was carried.