CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11936, 9 January 1901, Page 7

CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

The following are summaries .oi the reports to. be .presented at to-night's meeting of the City Council: — The Financo Committee recommend that a rebate of half water, rates, amounting to £2, bo gianted to Mrs Christina, Edmond On her house in Stafford street, which has been unoccUpied over six months, the city solioitprp having adVised that it is legal to do so. Accounts have been passed for payment amounting to':— Municipal No. 1 account, £4248 lis Id; Water No, 2 account, £1087 10s 9d ; gas No. 3 account, £3518 8s 10d; —total, £8864 103 Bd, The Pubiio Works Committee recoinmend that Mr H. I>\ Moss's offer of a toad roller for sale at £90 be declined. The city surveyor has been instructed as follows:—To act with reference to request from Mr James A. Walcotb for formation of steps at the corner of Arthur and Cargill streets; to act as to complaint from Messrs Thomas Johnstone, Joseph Felthtini, and William Taylor, of the state of the footpath in front Of their premises ill Manse street; to instruct that oil exceptional occasions Cumberland street, between St. Andrew and Albany Streets, is to be watered; to aot with his'Worj ship the Mayor and the chairman as to draw; ing up specifications for duot cart with sugI gested alterations, with a view to calling for tenders for four.new carts. With reference to the complaint from the National Mutual Lifo Association of Australasia (Limited) of their' Cellars being flooded by leakage from the street Ohanhel in Bond stroet, a reply has been sent that the city surveyor reports that the street channel is not the cause of the leakage referred to. The Reserves Committee recommend that tlie Council re-enter upon allotments 77 and 81, subdivision of section 6, block VII, Town district, South Duiiedin, leased to William Kennedy, also upon allotments 14 and 16, subdivisions of sections 8, 0, and 10, and pa,rt 53, "VVakaji district, leased to Annie M. Inglis and James Douglas Scoullar respectively, and take possession in terms of lease for non-payment of rent. The city surveyor has been instructed as follows:—To have repairs effected to Burns statue at a cost of £3; to attend to the clearing of the pipes supplying water to tho ponds in the Gardens; to aot as to employing three men extra for cutting gorse on the Town Belt; to 6eo that instructions formerly given as to enlarging the urinal at the Botanical Gardens arc carried out. Tho following applications have been granted:—(l) The Maori Hill Bortiugh Council to extend temporarily across the TchVn Belt the drain t linn ing 011 -to the Town Belt from High street, Maori Hill, the Work, to be carried out at their expenso; (2) the North-Eaat Valley Borough Council to have the scrub overhanging the Pine Hill road on the Town 'Belt cut back, at a Cost of £4; the North-East Valley Borough to pay half, 1 Letters of thanks liaVo been sent to tho following for theif donations to the Botanical 'Gardens;— Messrs Bad- and Sons, London, collection of European paeony species; Mr Brittain, Dun'edin, collection' of viola and pansy cuttings. .Mr Matthew Morton's offer for 21 "years' building'lease of allotment 40, Subdivision of sections 1 arid 2, block IV, Upper Kaikorai dis ; tricti at £7 per anmtm has been accepted. The General Committee report that during the past fortnight -370 cattle,- 2752 sheep, 721, lambs, 168 pigs, and S9 calves were slaughtered at the abattoir, of which two cattle, two sheep, and two pigs were condemned as unfit for food. ■Mr J; J. P. Barkinan's application- foi permission lo remove nightsoil from promises Svithin the city has been granted*. Mr J. Ellis's offer to remove nightsoil' from the depot itl Whirf Btreet to the Dunedin Ocean Beach bomain Board's reserve at 5s 9d per box has been accepted. Mr Charles HqbCrts's resignation as an acting member of tho Dunedin City. IFire Brigade has been accepted as from tho Blst December, 1900. 1 Tho Gas Committee report having accepted Mr Johii' James's otter for slating the roofs of the purifying houses at tho city gas works for the sum of £H1 10s. Two hydraulic jacks arc authorised to be purchased for tho gas works.