Levin Borough Council

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 June 1917, Page 2

Levin Borough Council

———♦ —~— Following is tlie balance of the report on last Monday's meeting of Levin Borough' Council crowded out of our issue of Tuesday).— FOXTON' HAItBOiR 13©ARID. A copy of the Foxton Harbor Board Act Amending Bill was received and read. (The scope of the bill was set out I>. advertisement -in last Saturday's Chronicle). The mayor commented that the. bill was a step in the right direction; improvement of Foxton Harbor Board would be of advantage to iLevin and she district generally. '•RECEIVED." "W'aihi Borough Council's resolution uprging the Government not to sell lie State Coal Mine (also that the Government should acquire ( |a| coalimino in tlie North Island) was received (on the motion of the mayor seconded by Councillor •Lancaster). GASLIGHT AMD ELECTRICITY. application, was recelived from Mrs Wooding for the enlargement of the water supply pipe to' her property in Levin. (Mrs Wooding is desirous of supplying electric light to her premises, the gas mains not being available at Mrs iWooding's, and an expenditure of £25 being necessary to ■xtend the mains that far, which was deemed to be too expensive. Councillor (Mackenzie said it waa possible another house would' go up in the street, and then tlie gas mains would he extended. Perhaps to grant the application now would be to put he applicant to expense that would go for nothing when the mains were extended. Councillor Ryder/ doubted if the suggested 8-bours' generation would' be sufflfcient to sii.pply power. The application was left over for future consideration. '