SHANNON, NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 806, 8 September 1923, Page 10

SHANNON, NOTES.

BOROUGH COUNCIL

(From Oar Own Correspondent.)

At the ordinary meeting of the Borough Council there were present:— His the Mayor (Mr W. Murdoch), Ors Hyde, Carter, Gunning, Murray, Butt, Gardner, Board and Cwran. In connection with the notice of motion by Cr Carter, with reference to enlarging the boundary 0 f the reserve, the Mayor said he had been jn error in hearing this notice of motion as the nipver was not present, and ho now declared it lapsed, The Horowlienun Electric Power Board advised that it was prepared tq enter into an agreement with tho borough for street lighting for a period of seven years on the following terms:—The price per lump per annum to bo £3 lgs 64 for the first hundred lamps and thereafter £3 JOs per (amp net in eaoh instance. This includes installation, electricity and niaiijtenanPP, the hours to be from sunset to midnight. For an all-night service until daylight an' extra Ss per <jj»mp per annum would bp charged, fhat 10 per cent of the total number of lamps supplied to any town may be increased to 160 candle-power provided that such totally increased candle-power shall average- within 100 candle-power per point installed— It was resolved to approve of the terms end enter infq an agreement accordingly, The engineer reported that the tenders for the water pipes had now been finally adjusted and themftterialwiis Jo be delivered within four months approximately, He required the authority to orpqr the fittings, to be selected from the lowest tenqer In hand, Many of the fittings would be wanted when the first lot of pipes came to hand, as sqon as the casements were completed. He proposed tq cpmmpnce the pipe track for tlie lipe of 6 ipclj pipes from the intake to the site of the reservoir, Before this Wprk was actually started complete levels would have to be taken and adjusted to fit in with the new site of the reservoir. The next wprk would bo building the reserr voir. He suggested that the Ijrie pf pipes referred to and tho epncrpte reservoir 'bo dpne by day labour, >vhjc|f for {bis class of work was the best afld mpst economic. He now required authority to call tenders for the supply-of cement and Other material, iimi also for carting all material. He confidently expected t||<> material anranged for to come tp hand wjthm tlie time specified. The arrangements wore fsp made to enable the work to propped economically and smoothly, and np labour would he emplpyed until everything was ready- He was ranging the wprk in such ft W»y thftt there, would be no overlapping by commencing at such points that would pave the way for subsequent wprk. Tho dates of the arrival of the material would enable him to get the head works and the wot parts of the main pipe line completed in five months, Reporting on the sewerage, the engineer said ho had made the first inspection of the positions on the sites of the Plitfajl sewer and the septic tank. As far as he could see at the present time the lay pf that portion of the town between the Manawatu river and George street,'.would provide a suitable site tP include 'all portions of the borough withjn the drajnegP aroft. The exact position would be dotfinflined later, according to levels, which would be taken some time, next weak.—The reports were adppted. ••■■', A. tender for cleaning out Stajißell's drain was accepted at 18s per chain from the concrete tunnel to the railway and 33s per chain from the railway to the. old concrete, Cr Carter drew attention tp a dangerous cutting op East rpadby Mr Crqwther's residence, and tlje engineer was instructed to report on the matter of widening the road from the Albion Hotel to the borough boundary at East road. : Several applications were received for the position of borough foreman, Mr F, Haley was appointed to the position on the same conditions a» tho late borough foremen, It was resolved to employ a second man until the back work was completed, The engineer was instructed to.immediately proceed with the concreting of the border round tho plot in Plimmer Urrnafc