CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20876, 16 November 1929, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

The following are summaries of the reports to be presented at the meeting of the City Council on Wednesday night: The General Committee will recommend that the small area in Woodhaugh Park, near Edina street, be provided as a site for the proposed Scouts’ hall for the use of the North Dunedin Boy Scouts. The site is in a secluded location, yet easy of access, and is conveniently situated for connection to the sewer. The building plans of which require to be submitted to the council for approval, would be erected by the Scout organisation at its own cost. The Genera] Committee will report having carefully considered the matter of the control of the St? Clair Baths upon the expiration of the present lease on December 22, and recommends that these baths be administered on the same lines as the Municipal Tepid Baths, and that Mr P. A. Mathieson. custodian of the latter, be appointed custodian of the St. Clair Baths with wages at the rate of £5 per week, plus tree house, fuel, and lighting, and fees for massage in the hotbath quarters. Mr Mathieson is agreeable to yie transfer on these terms. The committee further recommends that Mr W. Hindmarsh. assistant at the Municipal. Tepid Baths, be appointed to the position of custodian to fill the vacancy created by the transfer of Mr Mathieson. these arrangements could be conveniently carried into effect upon the expiration of the present lease of the St. Clair Baths. Authority has been granted for sundry readjustments to the dre~sinc accommodation at the Municipal Tepid Baths, with the object of enabling the boxes to be folded back against the walls and so provide more space for the public on the occasion of carnivals or important swjmmmg displays. The estimated cost IS £lB, . The Works Committee will report that in order to cope with the demaud for ■ uc? tn L e , ?,‘ proposed to work a night shift at the Woodhaugh quarry, and to this end authority has been given for the installatios of the necessary which comprises a flood-light, three°lights S the track, and 12 inside lights. The ic Power and Light Department is prepared to do the outside work, estimated at £4O, and quotations will be called for the .balance of the work to be done under the supervision of the city electrical engineer. An application by "• «• Jennings for permission to erect a kerbside petrol pump outside his property. 165 Eglinton road, has been granted on the usual conditions governing such installations. Ths city engineer has been instructed to erect a fence along portion of the bank of the Leith at the council a property adjacent to the KelseyYaralla Free Kindergarten. The estimated cost is £SO. The under-mentioned matters are noted for consideration with future allocations:—(c) Cutting off and regrading, the corner of Shetland and shifting the. existing mud tank. Estimated cost £7O. (d) iverbmg and channelling in Signal Hill road along the Grandview frontage—esti““tfd cost £120; also K. and G. and footpath formation from M'Gregor street to Ltnraersons—estimated cost £3O. (e) Laying tarred macadam in Norfolk street from Bedford street onwards, (f) Laying •j anc * and tarred macadam on both f 1 c J? ula , 1 ; afreet. Estimated cost £4lO. (gj Grading and forming a screenings footway to serve six houses in South road. Estimated cost £75. (h) Piping a watercourse in Steep street. Estimated cost £lB9. (i) Surface sealing^or tar macadamising the portions of Hanover street and Frederick street adjoinmg the Public Hospital, (j) Surface seallnS, or macadamising Littlebournt road, (k) ‘Laying K. and G. in Cliffs road from the existing footway to the Battery entrance. Estimated cost £4B. Ite Electric Power and Lighting Com mittee will recommend that the offer ol Naylor for the construction of two additional underground transformer pits in Princes street and George street be accepted. It is proposed that one of these pits be placed at the Bank of New Zealand corner and the other at the northern corner of George street and Moray place. Both stations are required in order to deal with the increase in load in these two streets. . The work will be done after the new year. Mr Naylor constructed the two previous pits. . The city engineer’s report on the progress' .ol worts at Manmerangi dam during the past fortnight will be laid oh' the table tor the information of the - council. ‘ Tne report covers the following operations— Y } z ' : Erection of six additional huts anc three sheds over gravel winch and cable ways; construction of porous drains; erection of hopper and elevator for grave! wash No, 2, and erection of concrete completion of erection ol cableway No. 1 and Sullivan’s hoist No. ? Doth of which are now in commission; storage of excavated rock in readinosi tor being crushed for concrete work; con structiqn of temporary pipe line; all these pipes are now in. position and boltec up, completion of skidway for lowering machinery for No. 1 power station: ,ex cavations on the arch of the right gravitj and left gravity sections of the dam; pre paratory work for construction of valv< tower. Boring operations were continued during portion of the last fort nightly period, and hard rock was struct at a depth of 110 feet. The plant is now being shifted for boring in the pre vious hole in a direct line between th( power station and the surge chamber, am the work will be resumed until rock u struck at tins point. .The Tramways Committee will repon that authority has beeu granted for the purchase of 500 mixed Australian hard wood sleepers, which are offered by th, Invercargill Tramways Department, sub ject to tfce sleepers being first inspectec and approved by an ofiicer of the depart mem, ~ The Gas .Committee will recomment! that authority be granted to proceed with the following extensions of main—viz.i (a) Twelve chains of 3in main it Albion street. Anderson's Bay, at an eefci mated cost of £l2O. (b) Ten chains c 3in main in Orbell street and Pine Hil road, at a cost of £IOO.