PUBLIC REQUIREMENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2928, 27 April 1910, Page 12

PUBLIC REQUIREMENTS.

MARKET AND BATHS. Two matters of considerable public interest were dealt with briefly by the City Council on the 20th—the question of the establishment of public markets and public baths, both of which were dealt with in the General Committee's report. C r Tapley asked leave to alter clause 4(city engineer and city building inspector instructed to prepare plans for erection of a suitable building on the Market Reserve for public markets, at a cost not to exceed £3000). Last week it was decided to ask the city engineer and the building inspector to prepare nlans for the erection of buildings on the Market Reserve, where the General Committee proposed the market buildings should be erected, but in view of the great agitation now going on against the Market Reserve being so used it would be better, in the first place, he said, to get the city engineer to report on the suitability or otherwise of the reserve for market buildings. That would save unnecessary labour in drawing up plans to suit a site that might not be agreed to by the council. He asked leave, therefore, to alter the report to read, “ That the city engineer be instructed to report on the suitability of a' site for market purposes.'’ Cr Douglas asked if Cr Tapley was in order. He bad not consulted his committee, and was now asking for an amendment of its report. •» Cr Tapley said he bad not had time to call the committee together. The Mayor suggested that the clause be referred back to the committee. It was resolved to refer the clause back to the committee for further consideration. Cr Tapley then moved the adoption of the report as amended. On the matter of public baths, he said as the Harbour Board had not yet met, the committee had not received a reply to its communication asking the terms on which iit would grant a site at the foot of flanover street. Personally, he thought the Hanover street site would be a very good one; it was adjacent to the foreshore, and from an economical point of view the position was satisfactory. He believed the site would prove an admirable one. Or Tapley, in reply, said the water used m the baths would he quite pure; provision would be made to ensure that it was so. Farther, care would be taken to secure approaches to the baths, notwithstanding any alteration in the railway lines. The report was adopted as amended.