KARORI BOROUGH COUNCIL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7048, 9 February 1910, Page 6

KARORI BOROUGH COUNCIL

DRAINAGE AND WATER SUPPLY. Tli© fortnightly meeting of the Kavori Borough Council was held lost evening. Present, the Mayor (Mr C. I. Dreent) and Councillors Cathie, Spiers, Warraeley; Welland, Hildreth, Burne, and Wedde. • Accounts amounting to £579 18s fid were 'passed for payment. The works committee recommended the acceptance of Messrs Lowry and Kells’s tender (at £63 IQs) for the erection of a metal bin. —Agreed to. The Secretary, for Education . notified that there was no provision for subsidies being'advanced by the department to public libraries, hence the council's request in that connection could not be acceded to. j The State Guaranteed Advances Department notified that the regulations were now gazetted, and that application forma would bo supplied the council and other preliminaries disposed of with all possible dispatch. The Mayor remarked that once the granting of the required loan was approved, it would matter very little if they had to wait a few months for the money. He commended the promptitude with which the newly-constituted board had dealt with the matter. Replying to the application sent on behalf of Thomas Ward, J. W. Henderson, and others for permission to tap the city water mains, and to connect with ths new sceptic tank at Creswick, the Wellington City Council intimated that it regretted it could not see its way to agree to the proposal. It was resolved, on the recommendation of the works committee, to ask the City Council to furnish a copy of the acting-engineer’s report on the subject,and a statement of the grounds for ths council’s refusal. The Mayor said that if the City Council persisted in its refusal, the only alternative left for the residents of the district would be to install the J r own services. Ho believed they would be willing to do this, or to deposit a sufficient sum with the council to enable it to carry out the work. But they ,would prefer* that the work should be in the hands of the city engineer. Within a few years the city would have to undertake the draining of and supply of water to the whole of Karori.