MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21982, 17 June 1933, Page 2

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

CITY COUNCIL REPORTS RECOMMENDATIONS B¥ COMMITTEES The various committees of the City Council will report, inter alia, as follows to the meeting of that body on Wednesday night: — LIBRARY COMMITTEE The Library Committee will report that the return of attendances, etc., at the Public Library during the month of May, 1933, as compared with the figures for the corresponding month of last year are as follows: — 1933. 1932. Newspaper and magazine rooms open on 31 days 18,774 Reference library, open on 27 days 4,468

Number of books consulted in reference library 7.295 5,409 Adult tickets issued to • May 31 9,916 8,955 Juvenile tickets issued to May 31 1.404 1,384 Number of books issued for home reading, 36,267 volumes, at the average rate of 1,343 per day. Books added, 290. Total stock of books to May 31, 1933, 52,093.

Owing to serious constructional defects in the coal chute at the library building, it lias been found impossible to get the coal to run down the chute, and at the present time coal cannot be got into the furnace room at the library excepting under great disabilities and considerable expense. It has been necessary to take steps to remedy the defect as a matter of urgency, and instructions have accordingly been given to the city engineer to install a new chute laid on a steeper angle at an estimated cost of £6B. The work will involve cutting through a foundation wall of the building and excavation work beneath the building. RESERVES COMMITTEE The Reserves Committee will report as follows: —

An application from the Works Committee for permission to dispose of filling material from widening operations in York place by battering over the embankment in City road on to the Arthur street cemetery reserve has been approved. Boundary Wall.—An offer from Messrs. Arthur Ellis and Go., Ltd., Kaikorai Valley, to provide bricks and labour for the purpose of erecting a six-foot brick boundary wall between Messrs Ellis’s factory property and a portion of Ellis Park adjoining, subject to the council providing the necessary cement, screenings, and sand for the work, has been accepted. The estimated cost to the council is £lB 9s.

Pay-sheets and accounts amounting to the sum of £4lO 13s lOd have been recommended to the Finance Committee for payment. GENERAL COMMITTEE

The General Committee recommend that, pursuant to the provisions of section 24 of By-law No. 18 of. the City of Dunedin, governing the provision and use of street telephones supplied and, installed by the council at duly authorised vehicular stands for use by the occupants of such stands, it is recommended that such regulations be and are now hereby adopted. Up till some time ago matters in connection with the operation of the telephones on the ranks were proceeding satisfactorily, but it has recently been found necessary to specifically define the position with regard to the teleE hones, and the regulations, which will ave the force and effect of a city bylaw, are designed to that end. The committee will report as follows: A proposal conveyed by the , Roslyn Ratepayers’ Association for a resident in the vicinity of the Roslyn baths to undertake the duties of custodian of the promises during the swimming season, approximately 12 weeks, and also to generally oversee the premises during the “off” season, has been agreed to. In return for the services rendered the custodian will be paid a remuneration of £1 per week during the swimming season only, plus the fees paid for admission to the baths.

Applications for licenses and permits have been dealt with as under:—Bakehouse license 1, bakehouse license (provisional only) 1 (granted), signboard 1. One application for a second-hand dealer’s license has been declined on the report of the police. One application for a van driver’s license has been granted, subject to terms of police report. WORKS COMMITTEE The Works Committee will report as follows: — NEW WORKS. As there are no funds allocated for new works other than the comparatively small contingency vote in the special schedule and the vote incidental to carrying out works suitable for relief works, authority has been given for the undermentioned works to be undertaken with funds from the district maintenance vote for 1933-34, if such funds should prove to be available as the year progresses. Cost to Relief council, labour. (a) Carriageway Paving— Cargill road —King Edward street to Anderson’s Bay road—sealing 268 Stafford street Alva street to Eglinton road —sealing 72 Frederick street Castle street to Anzac avenue —tarred macadam full width 420 (b) Concrete StepsConstitution street—top of street. Replace wooden steps with concrete ones 98 42 (c) Kerbing and ChannellingPine Hill road—near steps ' above George street bridge to Fea street .. 150 90 (d) Protection FencingPine Hill road —near steps above George street bridge to Fea street (same location as in previous item) 58

Total estimated cost £1066 STREET IMPROVEMENTS. The committee has given authority for the undermentioned street work to be put in hand: — K. and G. 'and tarred macadam footways— Maeandrew road (south side) from Kirkcaldy street to a point two chains and a-half east of road .. .. .. 546 09 Surrey street (east side), Maeandrew road to Bay View road • • 258 99 Surrey street (west side), Maeandrew road to 3 chains south • • 45 25 Surrey street (west side), Maeandrew road to opposite Nicholson street 152 o 0 Carriageway widening and paving, Bay View road (north side), Kirkcaldy street to Surrey street 224 41

Total estimated cost £1225 Approval has been given to a schedule of proposed street lights as prepared by the city engineer and laid on the table. Provision has been made therein for 44 additional lights to be erected and seven shifts of existing lights to be made at a total estimated cost of £283 11s ad. The city engineer has been instructed to act with respect to the undernoted matters: — Effecting repairs to the George street bridge over the Leitli which was damaged by a motor truck recently. Estimated cost, £ll. , Constructing K. and G. and tarred macadam footway on the east and south sides of Arawa street between Bayfield road and Aotea street. Estimated cost to the council, allowing for relief labour, £l4O. Paysheets and accounts amounting to the sum of f 3847 Hs 7(1 have been mended to the Finance Committee for payment. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER The Electric Light and Power Committee will report as follows: —The matter of the charges and conditions for church heating, which has arisen as the result of an application for heating Knox Church with electricity, has been re-

viewed. At present the rate charged for such supply is Id per unit, on condition that the heaters are not used before 6.30 p.m. during the week, although they can be used at any time on Sundays. In Knox Church it is proposed to switch on the heating early on Sunday morning so as to bring the supply within the standard rate of id per unit for supply between 10 p.m. and 7.30 a.m. As it is expected that on certain occasions heating will also be necessary during the day time on Sundays, a request is made that the id rate be extended to include such heating. It has been decided that this request, be acceded to. and the decision will, of course, be applicable to the other churches who may desire to install or take fuller advantage of the electric heating supply. The arrangement in each case would be subject to a guarantee that the heaters are used on Sundays only, any heating required during the week to be subject to the Id rate. If found possible, the service will be metered so that the consumption on Sunday will be registered on a separate meter from that used during the week, in which case the two would be charged on different rates. TRAMWAYS COMMITTEE The Tramways Committee will report as follows: — Authority has been granted to amend the Glenleith bug service so as to provide for the bus, which usually leaves Duke street at 12.5, to leave at tioon and run to Glenleith. There are no regular travellers by this bus and it is anticipated that the alteration will meet the requirements of a number of children from the George Street School. Authority has been granted to remove the existing tramway shelter at Roslyn, Highgate, to the intersection of Opoho road and Signal Hill road to meet the convenience of passengers at that point. A larger shelter will be erected at Highgate at a cost of approximately £lB 103. The tramway manager’s statement of the traffic returns for the past fortnightly period, as compared with those for the corresponding period of last year, indicate a decrease in revenue for the period of £628. The total decrease since April 1 last is £1553 —4.88 per cent. FINANCE COMMITTEE

The Finance Committee will report as follows:

Authority has been granted to relieve the Public Art Gallery Society of the payment of premiums on the society’s policies covering the pictures and contents of the gallery. The pictures, like the building, are vested in the council. The amount paid under this heading by the society last year was £33 10s Id.

/Authority has been granted to effect necessary repairs to the Roslyn Fire Station building at an estimated cost of £24. The building ia the property of the council, and is occupied by the Fire Board as tenants.

Paysheets and accounts totalling £40,401 0s 3d have been passed for payment as follows:—Municipal No. 1 account, £17,327 17s 8d; Insurance Fund No. 6 account, £4O 14s 8d; Municipal No. 1 account, £5749 18s 8d; water No. 2 account, £5567 lls 3d; gas No. 3 account, £3054 2s 3d; tramways No. 4, account, £5388 14s did; E.P. and L. No. 5 account, £3272 Is 7d; total, £40,401 0s 3d.