KARORI BOROUGH COUNCIL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7024, 12 January 1910, Page 9

KARORI BOROUGH COUNCIL

•OOAEMITTiSIi BECO3IMENDATIOXS. Tlio Kai-ori Council met last evening, when there were pre- . sent—l'iie Mayor (Mr C\ I. Dasent), ami CoLi'iioillois Raino, Spiers, Walms- ' ■ley, Stauden, Welling, .Hildreth, Burn, AVcdde. The Mayor was appointed to represent the borough at the .annual conference to decide the weekly half-holi-day aiid at a conference for the election of a member for the Harbour Board. The Tramway Committee recommended, and it was agreed, that the Bo it and Telegraph Department be charged £3O per annum for three years for the conveyance of letter carriers and .telegraph messengers- on the Karori tramway system ; that'‘the town elefk writ© to the Christchurch Tramway Board and the electrical engineer ■of the Dunedin Tramways asking- for information regarding storage batteries.. The Public Works. Committee reported that it had. no recommendation to make with regard to the purchase of Mr Lloyd’s cradling plant. ✓ Tiie Recreation Reserve Committee reported, “That tho council he reoommended to make a. charge of £lO ier year for the use of three grounds ly • the Rugby Football Union, the council reserving to itself the right to allow the union to make a charge for entrance at any time and to take ,2 k 5 per cent % of the gate money : the union to provide and make goal posts and mark .the grounds; the council to-keep the turf in order and reserve to itself the right to say when the grounds are unfit to play upon ;• the refusal to allow a fixture to bo played will only be •exercised under extraordinary conditions; the council to maintain order on the ground ; the council also to under, take to arrange to meet certain trams to convey players to the ground at ordinary faros; the season to close on August 31st.’’—Adopted. The borough engineer (Mr G. W. Bingham) reported that the men had ibeen employed since tho last council /meeting in excavating the site for the metal binns, £4O having been , expended to date. This work would be completed during tho next fortnight. The binns would next bo erected, the council doing the concrete work and acontract being let for the timber work. Tic reported on the Evelyn Els to. to streets to J the effect that Mr Ward had agreed to dedicate sufficient land to enable the filling across the Kaiwarra. fcfcren.ni to be widened to 37 feet formation ; to grant an ea.sem.Gnt to the council on all sections where the battens may be required to be taken into private property: the right-of-way from Bell’s quarry to Fordo’s street to fee dedicated and to be fanned to the council’s satisfaction: tho nuestion of dedicating lots 50, 51, and 52 to le Jett open until such time as the formation of Evelyn road is completed; these conditions to be embodied in tho or caveat, decided upon by tho council on December 14th. Tho report was adopted.