CITY COUNCIL REPORTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18323, 13 August 1921, Page 13

CITY COUNCIL REPORTS

Tho Electric Power and Lighting Committee will report at the meeting of the City Council on Wednesday night that after a further conference with the shift engineer relative lo tho term of the now working agreement, it has been decided tiiat such term shall be lor a period of one vear. As previously reported to council the last agreement, which expired on March ol last, naa been icnowed witnout ainenanieii'.. liie Works Committee will recommend that autnoniy be hereby granted to invite tenders tor me erection oi a concrete refuse bin and entrance roadway in accordance with plans prepared by tne city engineer, thrf bin to oe located on tho site adjacent to tne ovei bridge and abutting on U hart street recently secured from Messrs John Mill and Co. The coat of the work is provided lor in lhe current year's allocutions.

Tho Works Committee further rccomllltUlU.S lual ...1 uut( IUIU Oil 1.. U lauJo ,11.111 uio residents ot tho Ouxlands dismci, Anderson’s Bay, to contribute tho sum of i.i/j to warn-, nie cost oi purcmijing ti.u laud required ior extending Duckworth street tnrougu to Criming street, on condition unit mo council nnus the n,dance at too purchase money, amounting to ijicu, Lie accepted, and authority gran lea lu complete mo purenase with tne owner concerned (Mrs Wilson) at tho total price ul £lbd. ris part ot tiro bargain with the owner, too council is also to erect necessary tunning on the new boundary, Tne land lo be purchased is approximately one rood in area.

'ine city engineer has been instructed to record tne following matters tor consideration with tho allocations ior next year—viz., (1) An application from the Alliance Box Go. ior permanent improvements to the channels in 'iliomas Burns street; O a petition ironi residents ol Holyrood Kaikoiai, lor permanent improvements lo streets in iloiyrood, more particularly Mulberry ami Marshall streets; (3) effect temporary improvements, as Jar as hinds will allow, to lootway in Passmore crescent. The Whiter Committee will recommend that an offer from Air Donald M’Quilkari to accept the sum ot £ti per acre tor an area of 151 acres of his land at Whuro .Flat, on the umierslanding that £IOOO of the purchase money will not, lie payable by tho council until six months after the date of purchase, tho vendor receiving interest on such sum in the meantime at tho rate of 6i per rent, per aim urn, bo accepted. Tho purchase of tiffs property will enable the council lo prevent, much of the pollution of M’Quilkan’s Creek, the. waters of which it has been found necessary to take in during the summer reason. The Tramways Committee reports Ihat an application from the k’alvatioti Army for a t.rainway pass for Ensign Coombs, probation officer and Samaritan visitation officer among the poor, has been granted on the usual conditions—viz., the payment of £5 by the applicant, which sum, together with a contribution of £5 by the Municipal Department. will bo paid to the Tramways Department.