CITY COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17424, 19 September 1918, Page 6

CITY COUNCIL

The ordinary mof>f,mcr nf f Vw» /"irf"*7 I

-i-iiu uiumary meeting* ot tiie O'ltv Uounral \ night. Tho Mayor (Mr J. J. Clark) occupied the chair. DEPUTATION. A deputation from tho Tramway Union waited 011 the council with reference to tho proposal to discontinue the use of tho magnetic brake on the oars.' The members of the deputation wore Messrs Rix, Pearce, Hopkins, and M'Teague. Mr Rix said that at a moeting of tho ™ on Sunday morning, attended by over 100 members, it was decided to send a deputation to the council on the matter. Mr I earce said tho union desired to protest against the proposal to discontinue tho use ot the magnetic brake. He was satisned that if the brake was not used and tho present hand-brake substituted a number or the men would not be able to stand up to tho work. The hand-brake was not efficient Only that day the magnetic brake ft 0 used by a driver to prevent a car from running over a careless boy. The hand-brake was not enough to safeguard the public As for tho -worn rails, why not lift the rails from the other side and put them in place of the worn rails? Another pro1 u at S ? Ill0 T ot " fch '' stopping places should be altered. In Cargiil road, for instance, instead of stopping at two street corners, let the car stop midway, and thus serve both streets? The hand-brake was used in Wellington, but it was a powerful biako, and very different from tho Dunedin brake. It would t> o injurious to the men to stand up for eight or nine hours and use the hand-brake. If the use of tho magnetic| brake was to be discontinued, the men ' laTe . so p ier thin ? in tho nature of the Wellington brake, which was on tho doublepurchase principle, very powerful, and easily worked. If the use of the magnetic brake was discontinued half of the motormen would either leave the service or their wou i havo to be dispensed with. Another result would be that the time-table would suffer, as tho cars would not be able to keep up to time. Tv/ fc 'Tv aa decided to withdraw tho clause in tho Tramways Committee's report referring to the magnetic brake, and to give the trant way workers an opportunity of waiting on tho committee and fully stating their case to it» n -a j RErORTS. Or Hay ward moved the adoption of the i-ibrary Committee's report. He said that the departure of closing- the lending library or i. Saturday afternoons was working- verv satisfactorily.—il le report was adopted, w i y, n , m oved the adoption of the \\orks Committee's report. A clause relating to the Anderson's Bay quarry read as follows:— Your committee reports that, as the result of a further communication from askln £. tbat furth re consideration be given to ins offer to sell the Andersons Bay quarry property to the council, the committee had caused further investigations to be made into the proposal. Reports have been received from the city engineer dealing with the matter from +h 'l"' , Point of view, and from the town clerk relative to the financial cover t 1 ™ 0 ' 3 -! • aßpects - These sports cover the ground in .a very exhaustive manaf*?r considering them, the committee is saiisfied that there are no good grounds for asking the council to alter its previous decision not to purchase."-Cr had S <? u " dcrstood 'that the quarry offered to the corporation for - jtoyu ; -"the committee thought the price was too high let it offer to the people He C r^ ed J Vi V at ft Usht k was council quarr y w hich the faded to secure, and which w been informed the proprietors would KnnnTl' wlth for a S old mine.—Cr Hancock: They were getting at you.—Or Be a g said there was no occasion to get at him He was not wanting to buy this navicular quarry. He thought no harm could be done by referring the matter back to the committee, and would move an amendment to that effect.-Cr Hayward seeded nof ®^ len dment. The Mayor said he did brfJfrt. ° any C , |ll<: : stlon which had CQme before the council in which more time, more icsearch, and more! earnest endeavour nffl. f Or L-= lVC ' n 1 the matter of the Kof P r °PP rt y- The reports placed before the committee had gdne into the utmost detail-Cr Wilson, fn reply that he hoped councillors had read the reports of the town clerk and the citv engineer on the quarry. No one could say that there was anything very alluring for the council in the purchase. He would not fAmnlf if" Beg S to accept as much as £500° if he came back to the committee because it was far and away above what the quarry was worth to the council. If the clause were referred back to the committee he did not see what further progress they could make The bulk of the stone > at the level of the crusher had been re- ' bl°TSt ft ??*! tlle stone supposed to : be left they would have to start at a fresh 1 Ihl y T l - ld havo to remove the surplus orerlying material.-Cr Macof .™ d erstand that the offer : the withdrawn. Cr Wilson said the ±,5000 offer was never made. 4.11 Mr . Begg was asked was if he would r.r,tnUan offer of £5000, and he »N l.he amendment was earned, there voting i for it Crs Begg, Hayward, Douglas, ley, Macdonald, Limn, and Taverneragainst—Grs Wilson, Hancock, Kellett 1 Scott and Sincock.—The report as amended was adopted. . The Trajnways_ -Committee reported tliat n ? Mes P Whitcombe and ■ Tombs for printing cash check tickets, and I that of Messrs Orr Campbell and Co for printing concession tickets for a period of one year, had been accepted. The prices • l a ance over present rates of i almost 100 per cent,-A letter was ! John M Indce, who stated th£t : he had not had an opportunity of tender < Z S u t° P rl . ntln £ of tickets. Some y^ ls : a °°, he had installed a special plant for • such Printing. The clause was referred ' back to the committee for further ' con ' sideration. D ~ ■ Tho reports of the Water, General Tie 1 serves, Electric Power and Lighting ' alt ! and Finance Committees were adopted 1 WAB PAY. ' ! Cr Scott moved as follows:— "That the resolution passed at the meeting of the k• T p - ember 4, relative to the I*® I>aylng • grante those of the staff who are on active service be re ?rr d V andthat^ 6 matterb e referred bade" to the Finance Committee for further consideration. Cr Scott said that in 1914 the I council passed a resolution giving half pay to its employees on active service during the pleasure of the council. In 1917 • the council rescinded this resolution, and 1 decided that each case should con 0 up separately and be decided on its merite ' The reason why he had brought this • motion before them was that he believed ' those who had gone away had not Lad a I fajr deal from tho council. They had sent those men away to fight for them, and they had absolutely no option but to fulfil the 1 prom'se which they so willingly gave Or Hayward said that by cancelling their ] first resolution they were not carryin- out t their obligation to these men. Cr Sinoock said ho was prepared to studv r the majority, and do what he believed to be right rather than be guided by senti 1 ment and by ono or two councillors who either did not know the meaning of tho phrase "during the pleasure of tho council' or did not want to know. If the council were to allow the half-pav to con- ° tnme ,t would inflict an injustice on 1 hundreds of people who were not able to 1 bear even tbo burdens imposed on them at 1 present. It would mean an extra 2d rato on the ratepayer. n ,S r £ald A h -° moy er and seconder f had told them nothing now from the dis- , cussion at the council's meeting on Septem- • ber 4. To be consistent lie must vote " as he did on that occasion. Ho was im 11 pressed with tlio argument brought forward !' by Cr Sincock that the man in the trenches , who was not receiving half-pav was gointr d to be called on as a possible ratepayer when 11 he came back to help to pay up tho extra E< amount to bo given to tho corporation em- " ployee who might be fighting beside him k He believed tins question of half-pay wa* causing discontent amongst men in the a trendies who were not receiving anything beyond their military pay. 0 ° After further discussion the motion was carried. 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