HOKITIKA BOROUGH COUNCIL

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1943, Page 6

HOKITIKA BOROUGH COUNCIL

MONTHLY MEETING

[OUII OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

HOKITIKA, June 16.. The monthly meeting of the Hokitika Borough Council was held yesterday. The Mayor, Mr A. R. Elcock, presided over the follownng members:—Crs D. P. Stuart, K. Aitken, E. W. Heenan, W. H. Stopforth, G. Heinz, T. W. Duff, L. S. Ross. Receipts £332/19/10, expenditure £846/6/10. Accounts amounting to £503/5/6 were passed for payment. The Foreman’s and Sexton’s reports were read and approved. There were eight interments during May. Further supplies of weed-killer for the cemetery were authorised. Work at the cemetery in opening new ground was authorised, the borough lorry to be allocated to the job for a week.

The Council appointed Mr James McEwan as sanitary inspector. The Council decided to put the residue of the Reserve Endowment Fund into National Savings. Abattoir report: Stock slaughtered for the month of May amounted to 36 cows, 16 heifers, 59 bullocks, 198 sheep, 34 lambs, 23. pigs, 27 calves. Condemned, one heifer. Fees collected for the month amounted to £BB/19/5. Fees for the corresponding month last year £99/4/9. It was resolved to outhorise the Reserves to invite the Superintendent of the Christchurch Botanical Gardens (Mr McPherson) to inspect the reserves (Cass Square) and advise the Council on laying-out and planting of suitable trees and shrubs. The offer of the Beautifying Association’s co-opeifation. was accepted and would be availed of when the- report had been received. In the meantime it was decided to adhere to the decision to plant the white escallonia hedge round Cass Square. The Medical Officer of Health advised that sample of water (No. AK 299) taken at the Hokitika reservoir on May 12, had been analysed, and that the water is of satisfactory quality. . The Hokitika Five Board advised that the Board’s tstirnates for tile current year had been approved, and that the Council’s contribution was £282.

Mr Ronald Ross, . Fitzherbert Street, applied for permission to instal a septic tank at his residence. — Granted subject to usual conditions. ■ Mr Harold L. Jones asked the Council to extend the domestic water suply to his residence on sections 1674/5 North Sale Street.—Request declined in meantime. Messrs H. J. Seebeck and G. H. Chapman asked that the open drain along the frontage of their residences in Brittan Street be piped.—Left to Overseer for attention.

The Hokitika Beautifying Association wrote that in regard to the Council’s decision to plant a white escallonia hedge round Cass Square that the Association considered that this is not advisable in view of the tremendous cost of maintenance and the unsuitability of white escallonia, as it is subject to blight. The Association feels that the planting of decidous trees and flowering shrubs would be much more beautiful and would involve the minimum of attention.

The Engineer of Public Works Department advised that in regard to the culvert which crosses the main highway at the corner of Stafford and Hoffman Streets, that the actual cause of the flooding along the frontage of some of the houses on the north side of Stafford Street contiguous is due to the fact that these drains are below the high flood level of the Hokitika River. —The Council disagreed, and would invite the Engineer to inspect when area was flooded at lower river level.