CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 7

CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

The Works Committee Tecommend that the offer of the Otago Presbyterian Church Board of Property to pay to the City Council the 6um of £l5O, in consideraiton of -which the council forms and metals the roadway and footways in Bridgman street, iensington, adjoining the Board's property and up to the Anderson Bay road unction, be accepted. The City Engineer tas been instructed as follows :—lncrease he wages of Asphalters Jones and ConA'ay by 6d per day; transfer the sum of £3o set down in the allocation for korbing and channelling in St. Andrew street for similar work in Royal terrace: arrange for the erection, as soon as possible, of three additional lights in the Main road, Hawthorne avenue, and Montague street respectively. Valley Ward, at an estimated cost of £99. The Water Committee recommended :hat authority be granted to instai the second 10in meter now in stock on the Ross Creek Reservoir, in paa-allel with the meter already authorised, at an estimated cost of £55. it having been ascertained that the one meter alone is not capable of correctly registering the flow of water; that the offer of Mr W. Stevenson to accept the sum of £4O for purchase of his property at Flagstaff, containing 4| acres, be accepted. The Reserves Committee recommend that the matter of the erection of a tea kiosk in the Botacic Gardens be not further considered in the meantime, but that the question be again brought forward when the allocations for next year are under consideration. An offer from the Reserves Conservation Society to contribute twoihirds cf the cost of planting the plots of ground at both ends of the Dental School, subject to the council contributing the remaining one-third, and agreeing to undertake the future maintenance of tho plantation, has been accepted with thanks. The estimated cost of the work is £ls. The head masters of the various schools in the City area have been written to on the subject of the preservation of reserves and plantations, and asked to co-operate with the Council in arranging for the appoints ment of the boys in Sixth Standard as honorary rangers. The General Committee recommond that notice be served on tho owner of promises situate at Nos. 3 and 5, Walker street, in accordance with section 90 of the Public Health Act, 1908, to alter, renew, and repair such premises, in accordance with the certificate of the District Health Officer. The Library Committee recommend that the revised list submitted of newspapers and magazines proposed to be stocked in the library during the next ensuing period of 12 months be approved. The list represents a total estimated charge for subscriptions of £165, being a reduction of about £l7 10s as against last year's charge. Arrangements have been made with the District Health Officer for the disinfection, sad, where necessary, the destruction of books on issue to any occupant of premises wherein a case of infectious disease shall have occurred.