KOSLYN BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10625, 21 March 1896, Page 8

The regular meeting of the Iloslyn Borough Council was hold lrnil uight, and was attended by the Mayor (Mr J. Liddell), Crs Beg,f, K.-m----nitz, Seott, Sim, }'mlp, Sutherland, Waliou, Patewon, Drew, Millar, mid Wedderspaon. (JOIMtU.SI'ONDRN-CE. Mr A. Fleming wrote complaining thik the olerk had refused to allow him to see the Municipal Corpoiations Ait —Keoeived. The Duuodin an<i Kiikorai Tram Company wrote in reference to vhe taking of a strip of land, under the Public Works Act, from High street to the Town Belt, «nd reqaetted the council to leavu the matter in tho hands of the company's solicitor.—Received.

5 . HETOETS. . t j The Works Committee recommended, with ( reference to tbe Mornington Council's proposal |to couttibate £3 for a footpath in the Kaikorai ! provided the Koslyn Council agreed to pay a ! like amount, that the Mornington Council he requested to appoint delegates to confer with ', the Works Committee of the Roslyn Council | on the matter.—Tfa^y repotted, with referenca to Mr A. C. Blacks letter as to water from High street flowing on to his property in Bishopscourt, that the inspector had been instructed to divert the line of the culvert fo j as to discharge the water directly into the aide J nfcreet. They recommended that the inspector be instructed to report on the cort ef widening the Main Nerth Taieu roid opposite.Mr Bain'g property; that -the request of . property owners on the north side of Clyde Btreet for Verbiog and channelling be complied with; that tender* ba invited for clearing gorse and broom from the old roadline in Chalmersl on township; that 9in pipes be laid along the line of. tbe ditch at the lower end of Garfield street, and that the dtteh be filled in; that the inspector report on cost of kerbing and chaonelUng that part of Canrch street adjacent to the Kiikorai Presbyterian Church, and ascertain if the Churoh Commi*tse would agree to'pay half the cost of the same ; th»t the clerk be requested to write to the City Council and request that some repairs be earned out on the loan Belt toocpath at tbe fool of. Littlebourne road.— j Adopted. I The Finsnce Committee recommended that Mr John Fraeer's application to rent the piece of ground to the south tide of the road through j section 113, Wakari, be granted, during the j i»iesflure of the council, at the annual rental of £2 10*; the area of landletto bel£acres, and the I balance of the land to be reserved as a dep&t for i the storage of broken metal and stone. They j recommended that the estimates of receipts and expenditure for the year, amounting to £1337 2s lOd and £1887 2s lOd respectively, be approved. Tbey also recommended that accounts amounting to £164 19a 6d be passed | for payment, and reported that tb.B overdraft j »tood at £813.—Adopted. i motions. j It was resolved—" That the council make a | general rate of Is in the pound and a gas rate of ! M in the ponnd on all the rateable property for ) the ensuing year." I Cc Bego moved, Cr Scott seconded, and it j was carried—" That the clerk write to the Dun- | edm City Council balling attention to the bad xtateof the roads and footp»th3 on the Town Btlt near the old Robin Hood quarry, and request that some repairs be undertaken before j the bad weather sets in."