PORT CHALMERS COUNCIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17320, 21 May 1918, Page 6

PORT CHALMERS COUNCIL.

Tho fortnightly meeting of the Port Chalmers Borough Council was attended last night by the Mayor (Mr J. Tait) and Crs Williamson, Lightbourne, Dove, Lunn, Fail, Mawson, Jones, and M'Lachlan. The Minister of Defence wrote advising that it was now possible to give only the approximate date of the arrival of returning soldiers, but immediately on 'the arrival of a steamer the next-of-kin were notified by telegram, as also were the Mayors and the heads of patriotic societies in towns to which men were returning.—The Mayor said he had not been advised of the arrival of 'the recent drafts.—Received. Captain G. Thomson stated that there was a choked drain which served four houses in Bernicia street.—Referred to the Sanitary Committee, with power to act. Tho Finance Committee reported that the receipts amounted to £890 lis 9d, and the expenditure to £162 13s 7d, and there was a debit balance of £1053 5s 4d. The work of puddling the reservoir bank was completed. Attention to the bank where the trenches wero cut had been held over till the reservoir was quite full, to see if any water came through. The question of erecting a fence round the sexton's house was referred back to the committee, and the rest of the report was adopted. The W6rks Committee reported that 24 loads of concrete metal from the new dock had been spread on tho Sawyers' Bay road, ivt 6s a load. It recommended that the footpath on tho lower side of Harrington street, from Bernicia street to Daly street, be regraded and kcrbed and channelled, at an estimated cost of about £35. —Adopted. Cr Lunn gave notice to move at next Evicting—"That all resolutions in the book with reference to the recrcation ground at Mussel Bay bo rescinded; that the Port Chalmers Borough Council have sole control of tho ground; and that the Reserves Committee draw up regulations governing the use of the ground." He council went into committee over gas matters, and on resuming in open council Cr Mawson moved ana Cr Love seconded that tho ratepayers be urged to record their votes at the poll on Wednesday and give the council power to purchase the Port Chalmers gasworks if a price can bo agreed upon which the council considers satisfactory.