BLUFF NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 24599, 22 November 1941, Page 5

BLUFF NEWS

BOROUGH COUNCIL At the monthly meeting of the Borough Council the Mayor, Mr N. W. McGorlick, presided over a full attendance of councillors. The Mayor referred to bereavements suffered by the families of two of the staff, Messrs C. Parry and W. Aitken, and said that the only son of Mr R. P. Cooke, another member of the staff, was reported missing on air operations. The Mayor’s action in forwarding letters of condolence was endorsed. The council agreed to release the sum of £53 held in trust for the purchase of equipment for the new gymnasium at the school. A letter of thanks was received from the president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce (Captain S. Holm), in which he said they were “greatly impressed with the hospitality of the people and received a greatly improved impression of the fertility of the province.” The registrar of the Social Security Department advised that the 100 per cent, subsidy would be extended for 10 married men for six weeks from September 29 last. According to a request from the Fire Brigade, the council decided to provide access to the sea for a trailer pump at four places along the foreshore. DUST NUISANCE The Bluff Progress League wrote drawing the attention of the council to the dust nuisance at Argyle Park and asking the council to supply rubbish tins at the park. The council agreed to tar-seal the floor under the shed, but no action was taken in regard to rubbish receptacles, which had been provided in the past and removed. The traffic manager wrote with reference to the suggested alteration of the name of the train stop now known as the “old oyster wharf.” The Bluff Progress League had suggested “Shannon street station.” The council decided to suggest “Bluff West.” It was decided that the town clerk should attend the conference of the Municipal Association and the Town Clerks’ Institute to be held at Nelson in March next.

The fee for dog registration was fixed at 10/-, the same as last year. The annual clean-up week in the borough will be held in the second week of December.

Tenders are to be called for fitting

galvanized hoop-iron In window frames on the west side of the Town Ha l. Cr E. Matheson said that in stormy westerly weather rain went over tne top of the frames into the interior walls of the hall.

CLEARING OF NOXIOUS WEEDS Cr Metzger said the sub-inspector of noxious weeds (Mr R. P. Cooke) was deserving of commendation for the ]OD he had made in clearing up noxious weeds. It was the best clean up in the town for years. Referring to the noxious weeds on some sections owned by soldiers, he said he thought the council should do the work the men were doing a much bigger job overseas. ■The council agreed to do the work Cr' H. J. Burke suggested that the man to clean the main street on Wednesdays was the “invisible man’ ~~n e had not yet appeared. The town clerk was instructed to see the work was performed in future as arranged. In accordance with notice of motion, Cr C. G. Pilcher moved that the resolution declining an application from Denton’s Motors, Ltd. for a taxi-stand in Gore street be rescinded. This was carried and Denton’s Ltd. were granted a special two-car taxi-stand on the south side of Gore street east of the Club Hotel. Permission for the erection of a telephone box in the vicinity was also granted. Commenting that it would be useless to place rubbish receptacles at Argyle Park, the Mayor said they would only disappear. A councillor suggested they should be wired to a post, but the Mayor retorted that the post would disappear also. Another councillor thought he had found a solution and suggested attaching the tins to the building. “It would be no good in Bluff,” said Mr McGorlick. “The building would go, too.”