TIMARU BOROUGH COUNCIL

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13700, 15 September 1908, Page 3

TIMARU BOROUGH COUNCIL

The Timaiu Boiough Council met last evening, Present : 'the • Mayor (Mr J. Craigie), Councillors Bowker, Mullin, Hawkey, Se-aley, Oborn, Leathwick, Parks, Raymond, Sattertbwaite, and Schmidt. Apologies were made for Councillors Rothwell and Harnev. MAYOR'S STATEMENT. The Mayor suited that tlie overdraft that day was £5(67; and the temporary loans, including £6OO of the Carnegie gram, £2045. The pay-sheet was unusually heavy; general £lO4l 14s 6d; waterworks £l4O 17s 3d ; abattoirs £B4 2s 4d, Park £S'o 2s 4d, l.aroniie liuy jj'i lis 6d ; drainage loan £690 5s lOd ;'total £1999 15s Bd. The balance of the drainage loan would be £llß6 odd. Lady Pliinket had kindly consented to come to Timaiu next week to op.-n lhe Children's Ward at the hospital. This would bs her ladyship's Hist visit to Tiluaru, and he hoped that the Councillors would all be present on # 'he cccusion. Her ladyship also purposed giving an address to women, and he supposed it would be necessary to take the Assembly Room-; for this purpose. The Mayor mentioned some of the items of business to come up, and in concluding expressed regret that one of tlie Council's old employees, Foreman McDougall, was laid up with a serious illBEVERLEY ROAD. A deputation of four residents of Beverley Road waited on the Council to ask that Beverlev Road be graded and metalled. Mr Raymond described the condition of the ioad, and the inefficiency of th<* drainage of the gully. Mr Ensom said he tmderstood that. Messrs Tnrnbull paid over to the Conn i.'il a sum of money for the making of the road, and that this money had not. been all expended. If thai was the case they had a right to ask to have the work done. Shortly after the rain carters refused in go up the road, because the water lay on it and made it quite boggy. It becam r bad in that way after every rain. Mr Wightman added s,,me remarks about, the miry condition of the ioad for people on foot. The Mayor admitted that the road had been a' troublesome one. and an expen sive one. Messrs Turnbull paid £24u for the finishing of I he kerb and channel, they weiv supposed to have formed the road themselves The Council had spent a lot of money on this road, and he gave the deputation particulais of the expenditure. The Council would ask Mr Be;;wii.k to report, and if the r.-a& vva.-- a-; bad a.--, they .•■.aid something .should i.e ■done. The deputation thanked th,- Council and withdrew. Councillor Mullin .-.aid the 1....1.-I ».,; never propel ly made. jn.J wvi'ild not be good until both load and paths »v,e lai.-v.l. The pipe through the laih>a\ ought to b r much larger. Councillor Schmidt -.aid it w* an abominable road, it —as sc low, and ths

lower part, of it was made of surface soil. Agreed that- the overseer report to next meeting - . CORRESPONDENCE. An invitation was received from Mr and Mrs J. Hole for the Councillors and office .staff to attend the marriage of their daughter on Sept-ember 30th. A telegram from the. Premier requested the Mayor and Council to arrange for a public celebration of the first, anniversary of " Dominion Day" on Saturday, September 25th.—The Mayor said that Saturday being market day it would be impossible to get. the townspeople to take part in a public demonstration, and it must be left to the schools. The Council agreed, and decided to send a reply to that effect. A demand from Mr C. Crimmins for compensation for damage alleged to have been done to his property by "tailing over" in making up the street, was "received." USE OP PLAYGROUNDS. Replies were received in reply to the Council's enquiries regarding the letting of cricket grounds, etc., in public parks. The Town Clerk, Christchurch, wrote that at the Sydenham Park, a caretaker was employed by the Council, the several Councils paying an annual lental, with the exception of a bowling club which employed its own caretaker and paid the Council a nominal rental of £lO per annum. The St. Albans and Linwood Parks had no permanent, caretaker, and the clubs using them prepared and maintained their own grounds. The secretaiy of the Christchurch Domains Board, advised that- cricket clubs had the use of 10 and 8 acre blocks respectively for ±;. r >o per annum. Football clubs had the use of grounds for similar charges. The Council's lioliciloi.s advised (1) that t lie Council has power, under section 407 ol the Municipal Corporations Ai[, IUBu, io make by-laws to regulate the use of plai-fi-i of public recreation and lix reasonable charges for vsneh use; (X.) the Domain being v«sted in the Council, th-.se powets applied thereto; (.-'.; the Act of 1886 had been repealed, and the power to make charges was not re-enacted in the Act of 1900, but the provisions of l lie former Act were incorporated in lhTimaru Public Park Act, 1875. Jl wa;> agreed that the Park Committee should consider and report on the matter. THE RESERVES. The Mayor slated that Mr Tough, of Chrictchiuch, a relative of the lat.e Town CleiL, had uttered a, quantity ol plants .-'.mable for Cruolhic Bai, U "the Curator .otiid go and fetch them. lie told Mr Iviiowl.-ii to go and get. them, and he hadi got .i lot of veiy nice plants, and they had been planted'at the Bay. His Wonihip inigge-ite.l that a commit be should be set up to consider and repoii on the best way ul arrangine t'l.r paUneiil. for- Ihe use of the tennis ■••■Ui.'i.. bowling gieei, and crick.-I. o,ouiid ai the i'.iil.. -I he Council approved of this The Mayor explained to the Council the. cl.um of the Harbour Board to be con-i-uir-d £-c7T war r-2-iiJiii2 the ie-

letting of the Bay t*a rooms, and l heir otter to .pay half the cost of a legal interpretation of the lease.—The Council weed to pay the other half. The Caroline Bay Commit lee reo-mo-niended that, tenders be called lor the rue ot the bathing machines for the season, and Lhis was adopted. FERROCONCRETE. It was resolved to request Miosis Wfrst and Hall, architects, to report on ihe ferro-concrete partitions proposed to be constructed in the new building for the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative .Association, application having been made under the "modification clause" of the bylaws. The .Mayor explained that the by-law required tJ-inch brickwork in the partitions. Tlie plans, however, provided for carrying the weight of floors on iron pillars, instead of on the partitions walls, and for dividing up the building with IVrro concrete partitions, 4,1 inches thick in the lower, and 2£ inch.is in the upper tilory. Mr Berwick, u& building surveyor, approved of thciie partitions, but as.such use of ferroconcrete was new, and would tistabli.sh a precedent, it would bwell to have ijome. professional advice. Ihe applicants would pay for this, ff the itee .cf ferroconcrete partitions was approved, the by-law ought to be amended 10 permit iUJ uiie in future. .ULSt'EI.f.ANEUL r S. At the request of a resident of Wilson street, the owrseer was instructed to re purl on the completion of the widening of Wilson street, -opposite Howey'si store. Mr R. Hay applied for, and was granted, permksiou to connect with lhe sewer the w.e.Yi in his new building. Some discussion took place on a request made to the. -Mayor by relatives of the owner, that the Council's decision that a building belonging to Mr Mnriey in Hank litl'.-el be pulled down, lie tescinded —lt was agieed thai the Committee in.ike another in;-..peel ion, the applicants havin./ stated that 'the place had been cleaned up. The repeated last year's grant of £3O to llie TunalU Technical Schools A'-'iocialion. Permission was given to Mr 11. Coelit/. to put up in the streets some large calico sign* legarding the band contest.