NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 80, 24 March 1908, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL

The Borough Council met last night. Present: His Worship the Mayor (Mr. E. Dockrill), Councillors .1. Boon, X'. Ball ringer, G. Coleman, J. West, W. A. Oollis, C. T. Mills, W. Morey, H. R. Qrttlev, and G. W. Browne. "COMMITTEE REPORTS.

The Abattoir Committee reports:— la tbe opinion ot the committee it is not desirable to incur expense in providing temporary steam power to drive the refrigerating plant. The commits "e recommends that Mr. Lindstrom be relocated to pay £2 4s 6d towards the coeta of his application for a portion of the abattoir site for a tannery. That m view of the irregular hours at whi.-h the cattle are brought into the abattoir tbe manager be instructed to obtain an agreement with Mr. Hurtagh relieving the Council from (Ul liability for the aafe custody of his cattle. That up >n production of the borough engineers certificate Messrs. J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ud, be granted a further progress Moment of £230. That the slaughtermen of the abattoir be paid Is per head on all export cattle killed in any week after the first fifty. WORKS COMMITTEE.

The Works Committee recomuienJi: —That the letter from Messrs. Parker ■ml King requesting the Council to bear portion of the upkeep ot the old Alb.'Tt road be referred to the engineer to report upon. That the plans of the lewis of liardet street submitted by tbe en- I gineer 1* referred oack for further consideration. That the Estimates Committee be recommended to set aside a sufficient sum to reinstate the weignbridge (estimated cost £OB 10s). Th;t the Works Committee be authorised to approach the Minister for Railways with reference to obtaining the old railway Use and bridge over the Henui as a cattle track. That a notice-board warnbg penons against depositing rubbish ha placed near Mr. Barron's property in Fnlford-street. In explaining the clause relating 10 ♦Ko degrading of Liardet-street, Cr. Beilringer, chairman ot tho Works Committee, said ne desired to make it quite clear that he had no intention, and he presumed the Council had no intention, of doing this work if it were going to inoonrenience any of the residents ;n the locality, however desirable the work of lowering might be. The Mayor said that as the street bad been metalled, the Council could not titer the levels at its own sweet will. There would be claims for compensation ' It was decided to ascertain tbe feeliag of tbe property-owners in the vicinity. Some discussion took (dace concernfag the practice of depositing garden ■mi other refuse in disused streets, and H was decided to erect warning notiootmirds. The Council divided on th» question, and the Mayor's casting vote yru called into requisition. The Drainage Committee, having no fundi, referred to the Works Committee the question of draining in liobeonBtreet, a very necessary matter. —Or. BeUringer: It would be an unpardonable sin, surely, to do any drainage in tbe east end. THE LIBRARY.

The Carnegie library Committee recommended the Council to expend £lO for the maintenance of the ladles' room In the new building. Th® committee also ssked the Council to recommend t.. the Estimates Committee to place £1'") on the estimates to complete the furnishing of the library, and recommended that the building be insured for £ISOO. —Speaking of the rest-room, Cr. Col'.is ■aid that the rest-room was becoming more and more used, and over two hundred people visiteu the room on a recent Saturday. It was not fair to ask certain ladies of the town to annually expend £ls in having the room cleaned, apart from their own work in "tidying mp—Cr. Mills did not think the Oounifl justified in expending £l't per annum on the room.—Referred to t'le Estimate- Committee. TESDKRS.

Teu-ler- for annual 'itpplie; were atleiitttl—<;ig biie, M. -lonei: hurs'--Bhoeing and blacksmithing, M. Shivnan; kerosene, oils, etc., I). Berry and Co.; general ironwork supplies, Newton aai jlopkinson; ooal and firewood, F. Ho=kin. OTHER BUStSESS. . air. X. T. ilaunder, Vivian-street, ;wrote that there waa necessity for the erection of a street light near his property. As the poles were there it should not be a very expensive matter to e rect the light. —''Referred to th« Electric light Committee. ■Mr. D. McAllum, secretary of the Taranaki Stock Exchange, asked for a rebate of rent of the Town Hall from 10s per month to 2s 6d per month, sus from December last. It having been found that the business to be transacted did not warrant daily meetings, it had been decided to hold only weekly meetings until business improved.—Referred to Reserves Committee.