SYDENHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6875, 13 March 1883, Page 6

SYDENHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL.

An ordinary meeting of lb* Bydeohwa* j Borough Council «h hold at 7 tua. yester* day j present - Bis Worship to* Mayor, }, Councillor* White, Andrew, Ashworth, ■ Comber, Bowden, Webber, Bberleek. Brown and Forrester. I saw MBStsts. «, Mr N. K. Bowden, who bad been *hwUd ( to fill the vacancy on the mussed by , tile resignation of Councillor jrarilt, rsatle , •cd signed the customary declaration and , took hie scat. I cofcait*POKi>a»e*. ) The folio win* wee read m ' i From the Committee cl the L«W T«»- , pence* Demonstration, ioviUttjt the members , ol the Council to he pm»nt, and slating that Hie Committee would deem ti a greet favour if the Mayor were to pmide. CouseUtor Forrciter ms*eii—" That this Council adjourn at 74S }>,sr., in order to *lJsrtr these members who desire si to attend the lasdiee* Tetatsrranre Dsmonslralion.’* j Councillor Comber seconded the motion, t which »a« carried. 1 From Mr dolus Mtltse, Wsrptr street, com* i pSuaiaf of the filiby H«t» ol » side-channel t nra? hss rrsiivnc*. I SeferrM so she Werh Cemniliet to * rep.trU I Fro® the Ktianot Borough Council, *e- * kraw.ec*mg, with thank*. receipt of copies of i the Borough balance-sheet and aooouata. e F;-.> o she Christchurch City Council, s»k- % sag the Oour.«i to forward a reply to Useir a letter ol Jar- 8, asking a eoatrtbatwn toward* a the stfsr.se of a fire brigade, we replies from h Uw other bodies interested had been received, f The consideration of the letter was ordered 1 to steed ever to net!, meeting. d womse oohhistmc. a Tb* following report of the Works Com* p Bitter w»» read "Sour Committee beg to rarest a* folio we—(l.) Wish the approval of p the Healbcote Bo*d Board, a contract lor „ alseratmr to Wiisoo 1 * road hat been let to 0 Mr Richard Mddrra for the sum of £127 As. Jj (*) Ho tenders ham hem received in reply j, to the Council's advertisement. inviting ton* f, dm foe the supply of email broken metal for *, footpath*. (3) The Oomttiitee bare re* w quested Mr I aegdown to dedicate the strip j, ef bu»o as a public highway which ho la- & formed ‘the Council in January, 1833, he bad given far the purpose of sndeniug Austen, B street. (4,) the contract for the supply of p here# tmat to the Council cadres at the cad $ of the current month, and the Committee j recommend that tenders fee Invited, for the u supply of fsme during the ensuing' year. (5 ) y Ihe Coamitleo decided on the evening of the t | .{a«l Council meeting to meet on the following H Thursday cvenieg, and decide Id what streets E lie next concrete chantwlixag should be don*; w but Councillor Andrew haring declined to act y oo the Committee* the two member* present y did not think Si to take the responsibility of „ deciding the ourstios., (6.) For the same reason, and because the Council appeared to q be divided, in opinion as to lha necessity of j the vrc;k. no actios h«s been tales respecting the request of the deputation r* concrete ehaoßCllißf of Sicg street." _ _ 0 On the motion of Councillor White, seconded fey Councillor Comber, the report | was received and adopted. K biuissage sc&sn s£&tx*ss. t j ■Jbe following report cf the Committee *ppoluted to collect iaformatioo for a depute- ' iKta to the Draieage lifesid was read “ Your ComauttM to report ihst being unahe to get re liable it fena alien respecting J tie spport)oam> , at of the receipts and expen- .. d;:u.*« of the Drainage Board to each of tie «tth-di*tricle ua-cr the Board’s control, they eocsidered it ex pedlcnt to postpone the visit of tb* deputes!au so the Board. They oonteouentxy Inlormro she Board that certain »• tormaiiso rwqui'td not feeing forthcoming thr deputation wi t'.d probably not be able to . attend at the sis.e fixed upon by the BoasvL lie Comnittee ai-o rroommead that th» -j repmestative A the .Borough on the Board be r» q ..e»ied to endeavour to procure for the Ccwhen’s iclwsdm thw heme of all axpen* ditui-r hq«3« by the Board l » date for the bentfit of the Borough ; and al*o copies of the Board's estimates tor each year. And that the visit of lbs deputation to the Board be deferred until the Committee have had an ; opportunity of cor.siaerit g the information." J the report was received and adopted. Councilor White tbougbt that the Commitiee bad kid a very difficult task on him bs asking him to get the information they wanted, when they had declared their inten- . lion of fighting the Board. Of course he was nailing to do wild be could in the matter. . , Councillor Forrester was tf opinion that if ike Drainage Board had arranged their ( baiance-theeSs so a* to »bow the amount i to each di»triet, the Council would have been able So get all the infonaa- 1 tisc required themseivea , The matter then dropped. , n.ii.Bcn. , The Finance Committee reported that the , m’ejpts for the past fortnight were £lB7 , At Si, aod the aceouate paid 18« 7d. I The aocouote aoprond by the Committee amounted to £156 7* 9i. the credit balance in the back was 8456 8* 91. _ ( On the motion olf Councillor Brown, ( secoaded bv Councillor Fomsur, the report was adopted. ■wosu costsnxTift. * On th* motitn of voaociUor Forrester, j Mconded by Councillor Comber, Councillor Bowden w»s appoioted a member of the Works, Sanitary, and Difhtteg Committees, ! ic the rsxisn of Councillor Baritt, resigned. xortes OK> KOTIOS. Council!or Andrew save notice that, in the •vent of his motion rescinding that appointing 1 the Work* Committee being carried, he waold | more —*• iW the Council consider the following proposals; (e) To abolish all the j present OotatniUeee, and in lieu thereof—(l) do take from the Fuhiic Works Committee ail ' the ooccrete channeliiog, and vest it in a new Corns.ittoe, to bo herealDr called the ChsoseUteg Committee, whose duty it will be to devote ail its ecergUs to toe carrying on of the concrete only. (2) Xhe Work*, Eaostwy, Li*.hUcg, end Fire Prevention Committees to manage alt the works of the Borough otcept tie coccrete channelling. (3) Pu.a.-ic« Commuted to be as before. These shall consist of a Chairman and two members to ssch Committee, the casting vole of the Chairman to be abolished, so that he shall have Only one vote, the same as any ether me in her. (I»j lo outsider propossk for borrowing Iq the Colonial market, the sum of £IO,OOO, o the security uf the rmt from the Connoil* mervts, sn i o«iinary rate, the sinking fund to Le provided aho out of ordinary rates. This sum »til construct about 20 miles of ch.i-mlling, »ud the rstepayers will net bo called upon to pay any more than the ordinary rate hitherto Uvied upon the Borough. That the Finance Committee, with the mover, be requested to consider the proposal for a 1 lose, to report to them*’-’nesting of Council.” The Council then adjourned to Wednesday, March 28, at 7 p.m.