WAIKOUAITI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21145, 1 October 1930, Page 4

WAIKOUAITI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

. -MONTHLY MEETING. (From &OR Own Correspondent.) WAIKOUAITI, September 30. The monthly meeting of the Waikouaiti Borough Council was held Jon Monday evening, and was attended by the Mayor {Mr Andrew Fell), Crs Allcock, Brown, Cooper, Hallum, Lang, M'Dougall, M'Fie, and Mudge. CORRESPONDENCE, The town clerk, Dunedin, forwarded a statement of the apportionment of heavy traffic license fees for the period of six months ended May 31, 1930, showing the amount payable to the .Borough Council to be £l4 4s 2d.—Received, The chairman of the District Highways Council, No. 16, wrote forwarding a copy of the main highway estimates for the year 1930-31, showing the amounts allotted to the local authorities in the district for the maintenance of highways.—Received. The medical officer of health, Dunedin, wrote enclosing copies of notices sent to a number of borough residents in connection with the installation of septic tanks. —Received. Messrs Bradley and Ward, Ltd., wrote asking permission to erect a second kerbside pump in front of their premises on the Main road. —Permission to erect the pump was granted on payment of an additional fee of £2. The secretary to the Municipal Association of New Zealand wrote giving notice of the next annual conference of delegates from affiliated municipalities and town boards to be held at Rotorua on March 4, 1931, and stating that remits for consideration at the conference should be in his hands not later than November 24.—Received. Vouchers for the payment of the following subsidies were received from the Public Works Department, payment having been remitted to the credit of the borough district fund account:—Main highway, £53 IDs Id; beach approaches, £47 7s 7d. GENERAL. The monthly report of the Works Committee was presented and adopted. An application from Mr W. H. Brown for a water service to a cottage in the course of erection in Beach Street was approved. It was decided to procure a number of Gin drain pipes, and also 400 feet of 4in galvanised water pipes. The Rev. T, Wilson Potts, representing the Waikonaiti Beautifying Society, appeared before the council and asked for approval of the proposed planting by the society of suitable trees and shrubs on a number of streets in the borough where such planting could be done without in any way interfering with the. traffic or obscuring the view at street intersections. He said that a donation hv the council to the society’s

funds would be greatly appreciated and would be wisely expended.—After some discussion the following resolution was carried;—“That the council grant the Beautifying Society permission to plant certain streets with approved trees and shrubs; that the Works Committee be appointed to act with the society in deciding which streets might be advantageously planted, and that the sum of £lO be presented by the council to the society’s funds for the purpose referred to. Accounts amounting to £lO3 18s Od were passed for payment. SPECIAL MEETING. At the close of the ordinary meeting a special meeting of the council was held for the purpose of passing a resolution to operate as a special order, stopping a part of Kinross street, the area of land affected by admeasurement 3 roods 10 perches. The resolution that a part of Kinross street be stopped was passed, and the clerk was instructed to carry out the conditions required by section 172 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, as set out in the fourth schedule thereto, relating to the stopping : of streets. The Mayor was authorised to inform the Waikouaiti Racing Club of the selling price fixed by the council on the area stopped.