CIVIC AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 11

CIVIC AFFAIRS

FORTNIGHTLY COUNCIL MEETING Tho fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held last night, am] at-! tended by Crs Taverner (deputy-; mayor, in the chair), Begg, Scott, Larnach, Hayward, Hancock, Shacklock, Clark, Wilson, and Sir jock. RESERVES. Cr Hancock moved the adoption of the Reserves Committee T report. Cr Hayward said that the city would reap an advantage from acquiring a sports area at Kaikorai. The matter was long overdue. ' The report was adopted. WORKS COMMITTEE. Cr Wilson moved the adoption of the Works Committee’s report. Cr Clark suggested that when an application was granted for a right-of-way a condition should he made to the effect that a gate should bo erected if required. .Cr Wilson said that the council had no power to compel anyone to erect a gate. / The report was adopted. ADVERTISEMENT HOARDINGS. Cr Sincock, in moving the adoption of the report of the General Committee, said it had been decided, after due consideration, that £lO a year was a fair license fee to charge the vendors of meat from carts. The fee to bo charged to hairdressers under the new regulations for the licensing of saloons had been fixed at 10s a year, which it was thought was sufficient without adding a burden to the various charges which shopkeepers had to meet nowadays. The committee recommended that the parking place for not more than nine cars on the eastern side of Dr Stuart’s monument be abolished, because there was a danger to pedestrians and traffic. _ Cr Wilson referred to the intention of the Railway Department to erect advertising hoardings in various places, and complained that the town was being made hideous by them. Some were being erected on the railway em-bankment-at Wilkie road, and he predicted that a strong gale, would one day blow them down on the footpath. He understood that the Christchurch Council was making a protest against the erection of hoardings in that city. Ho moved, as an amendment, that the clause he referred back to the committee to see if joint action could be taken with other councils to protd&t against the practice. Cr Begg, who seconded the amendment, said the Railway Department should hold up the erection of the hoardings pending the passing of the long-promised Town Planning Bill. _ Cr Clark_ said the council was getting a considerable amount of revenue by doing the same thing it was asking the Government not to do.

Cr Shaddock thought the committee had been rather hasty in its decision to abolish the parking place for cars near Dr Stuart’s monument at a time when it was short of parking places. Councillors: “No.”

1 Cr Hancock said the parking place was directly in the way of traffic from Crawford street and from High street. In reply Cr Sincock claimed that the council had never laid down a definite policy with regard to the erection of its own hoardings. An undertaking had been given that the Government hoardings would ho erected in positions approved by the building inspector. in regard to a question by Cr Hayward regarding the women’s rest room, Cr Sincock said tho city surveyor was preparing a sketch and conferring with the ladies, and he trusted it would not he long before the building was erected in the Queen’s Gardens. “The time'is coming soon,” continued the speaker, “ when car owners will have to pay to house" their cars in a garage, just as owners of horses in earlier years had to pay to stable their horses.” The amendment was lost, and the report adopted. E.P. AND Ik COMMITTEE. Cr Shaddock, in moving the adoption of the E.P. and L. Committee’s report, asked permission to amend tho clause relating to the tenders for polos, in tho direction of the deletion of 2Gft and 28ft poles from the contract. Leave was granted, and tho report was adopted. TRAMWAY MATTERS.

Cr Scott, m moving the report of the Tramways• Committee, said it was felt the duplication of the line to Ross’s Corner at Anderson’s Bay would pay the department, and assist in givum a better time-table. “ This is a matter which is long overdue,” said the mover, in respect to the proposed extensions of the ear depot and workshops. He staled that there was great congestion in the sheds at present. Cr Wilson said that much frotblc had been caused by the frog on the tram route opposite the Cavershnm Post Office. Conductors said it was no use complaining any more about the trouble, as no notion was taken. Cr Sineock said a good job bad been made in the alterations to the road at the Roslyn junction, but he complained that the shed for passengers waiting obscured the view of the line art 1 made iJiG rood too nnrrow "between the shed and the bank. . Cr Wilson said the eity engineer bad been instructed to shift the shed. Tu reply, Cr Scott said ho had not heard nnv previous complaint about the. “frog” on the Cavevslmm line, but bo would sec the matter was inquired into. The speaker aEo I 1™; mised to look into averting a Bog opposite Valpv street. The report was adopted. TENDERS. The following tenders wore accepted; —Construction of store and fencing on reclaimed land for E.F. and E, department—Rove Bros, £430; remoial of rest homo and re-creetion in Botanic Cardens—W. B. Keeler, £630; additions converter station building, Cumberland street —W. IE Naylm, £1,3p0, supply of bnie cable—British General Electric Company. £220 Os 4d; tnpb braided cable—Rmlgc Electrical Company £BB4 7s; insulated rubber, 2.500 Moghorns gradc—British General Electrical Company, £CGfi.