CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 1888, 8 January 1867, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

♦— Monday, Jin. 7. ■ . :—Mr E. B. Bishop (Chairman), and Messrs. Luck, Ruddenklau, Duncan, and Farr.-. /.'■The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. . . The Chairman announced that'the credit at the bank was jE3SI. 4s Bd, in which was included the following receipts':

A letter re ad from the Secretary of the Chrlstchurch Female Home, asking the Council to lower tho rate on those premises, and suggesting that they ought not to be rated at all. . After consideration, the Council requested the Town Clerk to inform the writer that they had no power to remit or alter the rato. A petition was read from the carriers of tho city, complaining that they had been deprived by the police of their stand ,• asking that a stand should be assigned them, and stating that they would be willing to pay an annual licence fee., Mr. Duncan suggested that they should be licensed aid that tlie Inspector of Cabs should appoint stands for them. Mr Ruddenklau said the carriers were under the impression that the Council lmd|ordered them to be deprived of their stand, He

was not aware of nay resolution of the Council to that efFeot. ' " / After some dlsouislon, it was resolved that the Council will pass a by-law to appoint stands, and to regulate the carriers'traffic. i The Surveyor's report was read, which sugigested various things to be done, and referred to a letter he had received from Mr Bailey, offering 15a a barrel for the plaster and cement in the possession of the Council. Tlio Council resolved to accept Mr Bailey's offer, if lie will take the goods as he finds them. The report of the Rate CoUector was read. It contained a rccommendutlon that the rate of Mrs Smith, of Kilmore street, should be remitted. The Council resolved that Mrs Smith be excused the payment of her rate. The Inspector's report was read and considered. A tender was read from Mr J. Hadfleld, to water the streets of the city for £2 10s per day, as per specification, The totul expense of this tender, reckoning the charge to be for six days a week during three months, appeared to be too great, and, on the suggestion of Mr Duncan, it was resolved that the tenders be made in one sum, to keep the streets wet from the 14th January to the 14th March. The Council then adjourned.

£ B. d. General City Rates 114 0 0 Drainage do 6 2 6 Licences... 48 13 6 Bents ... 3 8 0 Total ... 172 4 0 .... The following accounts were ordered to be paid:— £ 8. d. "Weekly pay-sheet 11 12 9 Mr Hadfleld, for carts... 6 0 0 Mr Horner, on account of works at South drain... 28 10 0 Rankin and Gregg, on ; > account of alterations - in R. M. Court 80 0 0 Gregg and Brock, on account of Ferry lload Drain ... 8 0 0 J. Plank, for a pump... 7 0 0 G. McKeller, for lighting lamps one. • 'raftnth;..],,;|... . ... 8 19 10 Mr Hadfleld; ofi, account of emptying night-soil pans for the quarter ending Dec. 31 100 0 0 : Town Clerk, one month's salary... 20 16 8 City Surveyor, do 20 16 8 Kate Colleetor, do ... 12 20 0 Inspector of Nuisances, do 12 10 0 Assistant Rate Collector, do 13 0 0 : Messrs Tribe and Pearce, for preparing ami copying the rate-lilt for I860 ... ;U ... 12 0 0 Stampi for the .use of tlio office ... 3 0 0