CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 4

CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

<► The Gas Committee recommend: That iho selling price of tar bs fixed at rid ;ar g .lion for nil buyers, inclnclis; l; Coipora'Tio.i departments, its from August 1 nest. Thai the undermentioned oiler which has been made to and aceepted l>v the St. Kilda Borough Couueil for the installation o; automatic streetlamp lighters in the borough he. appruved, and thai the terms of same be embodied in a deed of agreement, to be executed by both parties—viz., the C.'iiy to install automatic lighters on present and any subsequent lamps, making necessary mechanical alterations City to repair and renew all mantles and " glasses, and generally ■ait iut;:m and ki cp lamps in good iepair and serviceable condition: the City to supply gass of good quality for lighting, light iamos at dusk, and extinguish same at midnight; the St. Kilda Couueil to bear the" cost of mechanical damage to lamps and pillars: the St. Kilda Council to pay the City Council a sum of .Co per liunp for the first year after install:.tion of the automatic system, and thereafter £4 os per lamp per annum until the number of lamps is increased to 10!'), when the annual charge 1., to be reduced to £4 per lamp. The Tramways Committee report, in regard to an inquiry from the llailway I'"partment as to whether the council ."re prepared to renew the existing aL'lvomout for the working of the Ocean B-"'cli railway, the committee have det isi"d not to renew this responsibility. hut to allow the Otago A. ami }'. Society and the Gas Committee io make their <>\vn arrangement with the Kaiiv. iv Dejairiment for the use of the line. The Electric' Power and Lighting Committer recommend that authority be granted to purchase a motor cycle for the use of the meter department staff in travelling between the City, Outran), Aiosgiel, and Green Island, at an estimated cost of £6O; that the quotation of Messrs Turnbul! and Jones of the sum of £l3 0s 6d for the. supply jntd delivery of one portable recording ammeter with extra fittings be accepted ; that, authority be granted to retain the services of Mr L. 0. Beal in making a. survey of the proposed new road from Berwick to AVaipori Falls "at a fee of £'7o. Authority has been granted the. city el?etrieai engineer to remove the To h.ri. motor at the 'Waipori tunnel and install same at the Dunetiin and Kaikorii Tramway Company's power-house with the view to the sale of same to the ! company, and incidentally dctarrnitiing : the company's maximum power rcquire- : inents in order that a quotation may be. made. The cost of cartage and connect- ! ing up the mo'or will bo borne by the City, anrl all ntber expanses wiP I>e paid | by ihe company.