CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 10341, 15 June 1897, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

The following is a summary of the reports to be presented to the City Council at their meeting to morrow night The Public Works Committee report that Mr James Mitchell’s application for consent to a right-of-way over portion of section 56, block 34. Cumberland street, be granted on the usual terms as to deposit of plan and undertaking for maintenance; thactheHon. R. Oliver's suggestion that two or three gas lamps be placed on Driver’s road. Town Belt, be declined, as the cost would be too much ; that the main north road on the Town Belt be metalled in the due course of maintenance repairs, as requested by the Northeast Valley Borough Council; that the footpaths be formed at block 60, Gordon and Vogel streets, at a cost not exceeding £2O, if the Harbor Board will pay half the expense, the work to be done without prejudice to the legal question regarding the formation and taking over of those streets on the reclaimed land. The city surveyor has been instructed to act in the matter of several applications. The district engineer's complaint of the condition of the cab stand in High street has been referred to the city surveyor. A reply has been sent to Mr W. T. Clark that the Council will sell the steam road roller, with all its fault-, as it now stands, for £4OO, delivered in the Town Hall yard. The Gas Committee recommend that the application of the Maori Hill Borough Council for the supply of gas and the erection of about seventeen street lamps, about half of which will be upon the Town Belt roads, be not entertained for the present, as the cost is beyond the means at the disposal of your Committee. The expense of laying the necessary mains is estimated at £744 7s 6d, and of supplying and erecting the lamps £59 10s. The Committee have no further report to make re price of gas for tramway motors, seeing that Captain Cradock has withdrawn his proposals. An application from the Diamond Jubilee Demonstration Committee for twenty-two barrels of tar for bonfires has been granted. The Kcserves Committee report having declined Mr J. W. Brindley’s application for permission to cut down the bush on the Town Be t in front of his house and for half a chain in width on each side of Driver’s road, the area being too iarge and the Corporation having alread> cb-ared the scrub for a width of 10ft along Driver's road, M r Virind ey has, however, been informed that the Committee have no objection to the small j-atch of bush on the Town Belt immediately in iront of his property, about a quarter of an acre, belief cleared.’—An application from Mr John M‘Neil for permission to gather some native seed in the Botanical Gardens has been referred to the head gardener to act.—Mr George Matthews’s offer of fiftien good oak trees. sft high, for planting in jubilee Park, has been accepted with thanks. The General Committee recommend that Mr

BandlWk’i claim o! 818 IBs (or preparing ' hil tenders for the erection of the abattoir building be declined j that licenses to store 71b of.«arbide of calcium be granted to New Zeeland Bible and Tract Depot, John Herons, and British Chemical Company. With reference to ' Messrs Duncan and MacGregor’s letter of June 2. 1897, gs to the proposed extension of the Boslyn Tramway Company’s line as follows—(If Westward to the Town Belt boundary; (2)' the duplication of the present line from the Shamrock Hotel to the present upper terminus; (3) the extension of the lino eastward front the Shamrock Hotel to Princes street, the Committee recommend (1) that the Council’s consent Be given to the first proposition, provided that the road crossing the Town Belt to Boss street, Boslyn, which is to be occupied by the tramway be. widened and metalled to the satisfaction of tlje.city surveyor at the expense of the company ; (2) that consent be also given to the second proposition provided that no dummy or oar shall be nearer than ?ft to the kerb of the footpath on any part pf the tramline within the C.ty boundary, also that the tramway company be permitted to set back where absolutely necessary the kerb and channel, under the city surveyor’s approval, the entire coat incurred by this work to be borne by the company; (3) that both the matters comprised in paragraphs 1 and 2 be subject to all details, plans and conditions being approved by the Council. As regards section 3 of the proposition, tbo Committee report that they cannot see their way to recommend the carrying out of this work The Finance ‘Committee report having requested the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramway Company to fall in with the suggestion not to run their cars in Princes street and George street between High and Frederick streets from seven to ten o’clock on the night of June 22. Accounts amounting to £2,456 7s XOd were recommended for payment.