SYDENHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2252, 21 June 1881, Page 3

SYDENHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual fortnightly meeting of this body was held last evening in the Borough Council Chamber at seven o’clock. Present—His Worship the Mayor and all the councillors. By permission of the Mayor, Cr. Hall called attention to the remarks made by Mr H. J. Hall at a meeting of the Drainage Board as to certain language imputed to him, but used instead by the speaker. He begged distinctly to state for many reasons that be was not anxious to be mistaken for his namesake. The secretary of the Athelstan Lodge 1J.A.0.D. wrote, asking the Council’s patronage for a concert to be given on June 30th, at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Christchurch. It was agreed to bear it in mind. The Secretary of the Waimakariri Board of Conservators wrote advising that the scale of commission for collecting the Board’s rate in Sydenham was fixed at 7J per cent. The Council agreed to the terms. Mr Inspector Broham advised the Council that the police were instructed to strictly enforce the Dog Nuisance Ordinance in Sydenham. The letter was received. Mr E. Bensley wrote calling attention to the state of the drains on a portion of Going’s road, between Madras and Barbadoes streets, and suggesting that a footpath be formed on that part of the road in question. Or. White stated the fault of the drains lay with the Drainage Board. Beferred to the works committee, with power to act. From Mr J. Bowley, Junr., complaining that the contractor for the erection of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency’s warehouse obstructed the street by unloading drays and cutting stone in the seme, &c. Beferred to the works committee, with power to act. • The secretary of the Heathoote Bead Board wrote, forwarding copy of a petition from inhabitants of Wilson’s road, asking for certain improvements. The Boad Board expressed willingness to co-operate with the Sydenham Borough Council in granting the request of the petition. Beferred to works committee, Mr J. E. March wrote, enclosing a return of charitable aid expenditure in Sydenham and number of recipients, for the year ending March 31st, 1881. Ordered to be acknowledged. A letter from the Biocarton Boad Board, offering to pay one-third of the cost of erecting a lamp on the Lincoln road at the junction of the Sydenham, Spreydon and Biccarton districts, was referred to the lighting committee.

Messrs B. Evers and W. Woodward complained that the water from an old watercourse, stopped up by Mr J. T, Brown, threatened to flood the land in the neighborhood. Beferred to the works committee, with power to act. The works committee reported :—That they had agreed to allow the contractor for Sandridge footpaths to use three yards of unscreened shingle per chain in place of two yards of screenings, he raking off the big metal; that they had replied to an application to rent a reserve, that it must be let by auction or submitted to public tender ; that they are awaiting the result of the City Council’s trial of Mr Bradley’s asphalto for kerbing and side channelling; that the attention of the Drainage Board had been called to the various parts of the borongh flooded on the 11th June ; that Mr Thomas had been informed the streets he proposed forming on Bural Section 74 must be 66ft in width; that the culverts found too small during the late rains are being replaced by larger ones; and that the works on the South belt are progressing as well as the state of the weather will allow. The report was received and adopted. Or, Day stated that certain contractors left heaps of material in the roads.without lights being placed on them. The finance committee’s report showed the receipts of the past two weeks as £SO 7s 6d. Expenditure, £242 10s. Cr. balance at Bank, £1026 16s Id. This report was also received and adopted. The Spreydon Boad Board having declined to re-open the question of the division of funds, it was arranged that the town clerk should ascertain, in company with a Spreydon ratepayer, what the amount showed in the books of the Spreydon Board. A general rate of Is in the £, and the Waimakariri rate of Id in the £ on the rateable property in the borough was struck, both to be payable on June 21st, 1881. It was resolved, on the motion of Or. Hall—“ That a letter be sent to the traffic manager, calling attention to the shunting going on almost invariably at the time the tram oars are passing, thereby causing considerably delay and inconvenience.” Or, Andrew moved, Or, Joyce seconded, and it was unanimously agreed—" That the town clerk be instructed to write to the Government, and to the members for Christchurch and Heathcote in the General Assembly, that this Council is unanimously of opinion that the Drainage Bill proposed to be introduced into the Assembly by the Christchurch Drainage Board is premature and arbitrary, and altogether unsuited to the wants of Sydenham, and respectfully ask that ■ their influence bo exerted in opposing by all means the passing of the Bill.” It was resolved sent to Mr G. L. Lee, returning officer, asking if the inhabitants of Sydenham are availing themselves of the privileges of the Begistration Act.”

Cr, Andrew 'suggested that three of the Councillors sit in the Council Chamber on certain evenings to register the claims to vote, and it was ultimately agreed that Ore. Andrew, Hall, and Joyce, do Bo attend every Wednesday evening from seven till nine o’clock. It was decided to write to the Colonial Secretary, asking that the name of Mr Geo. Booth, the first Mayor of Sydenham, be placed on the Commission of the Peace. It was also resolved—“ That a letter be written to Mr E. Richardson, M.H.8., asking him to take steps to get a clause inserted xn the Lyttelton Harbor Board Act to give Sydenham a member on the Lyttelton Harbor Board." , Ihe Council then adjourned.