CITY COUNCIL REPORTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17217, 21 January 1918, Page 8

CITY COUNCIL REPORTS

The following are tho principal clauses in the reports to bo submitted at the meeting of the City Council on Wednesday evening: The Works Committee, "will report approving the proposal to mako a turning place tor motor care beside tho Maternity Home in Queen street. A new road for motor traffic- will come back along tho high level, with a second turning place at the end. Tho Water Committee will recommend that £150 bo paid to tho Taieri 'County Council towards tho cost of repairing tho road between Silverstream and the Wharc Flat School, wh'ich suffered heavy damage by flood in May last. It is also recommended that an annual payment of £50 Lo made to tho County Council towards tho upkeep of the whole of the roads approaching and passing throught the city water reserves in the Taieri County, such annual sum to 'bo considered as a payment in lieu of rates. This latter amount of £50 is reducible by £10, being a sum agreed to be contributed annually by the Mosgicl Borough Council. Tho abovo recommendations are tho outcome of correspondence with and a deputation from tho Taieri Council, and they are mado in view of tho fact that tho city owns large areas of land, used for waterworks purposes, in the county, which are exempt from rating, and also in view of the fact that a very large percentage of the cartage over tho roads in question is duo to tho operations of iho City Council. Tno General Commit-too will recommend an alteration in tho present plan for tho bathing houso at St. Clair, enabling tho doors of tho dressing: boxes on the ground floor to open from inside instead of from outside, of tho building, aa was provided in tho original plan. The committee considers that tho alteration will have many decided advantages, among which arc tho avoidanco of damage to and tho flooding of tho boxes by heavy sons (which was a notablo nuisance in the old building), tho elimination to a very largo extent of tho inclination of many patrons to dry thomsolvps outside tho building, and the enjoyment of more warmth and light. The cost of the work does not exoood £58 16s, half of which a resident of St. Cl-iir has very generously undertaken to provide.