TIMARU BOROUGH COUNCIL

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13711, 28 September 1908, Page 7

TIMARU BOROUGH COUNCIL

The»Timaru Borough Council- met on Friday evening in commitee auU reail the officers* reports: OVERSEER. , Mr Beswick, ivj»orted as foltows : Be verify road —l'lie whole of the street has bi-eii formal, kerbed and channelled from the Main North road, with the exception of a short, length ot concrete kerb and channel near Beverlry road. Tlie undr i ground drainage ami counections have just b<vn coinpieWd, aud the whole of tbr v roadway re<{uirej> lonmng in ,coi. m-(juence. "1 lie footpaths are owrgrowo in places with couch graffi, and to make right tlhy would rctjuiic to bt- ploughed out ;«nd laid down in asphalt, with a footpath on the fiorh t-.i-le at the lou't r end a. wry sloppy in w*-f weather owing to the high b.utk.x draining ujx>» it. an.i this inusr be the case until the frontager* erect ictaining wal-«> <>r otlK-rwiso dram near '.h-- f<Kjtj>ath. 'Estimate of c«t>t of fooipaiii was given and also of, th.- cost ot (toiug up the roadi. ' He rvcommt-tid*-*! that surplus s|M)il in and neai Wik»on .*tr«vt l>e employed to fill in that part of the stnet in front of Mrs Mulnlly'x. The work of reforming, meaning aiid rolling Stafford sirwt north was m hand, and sarplus spoil taktn to Caroline Hay. 'Hie improvement of the Arcade was coinph-t cd eXiviH t«>p dr>»«ing. Tilt- tu<ual work of thaiung guilds, etc., had been ilonv; shingle had lieen carted ti» ten different! sir. e-s; drain pijH-« had l>* en laiil to the ivrw l«>wling gm-n at tli«* park ; the contract tor concrete k«rbing wa*> ix'arlv competed ; and tlie inv«rt cover of Cameron Street van ron>J>l'tc<i. The "Upj.ly of oats contracted for had U»en d.liveted in good or<h-r aiid up to ,>ai«i}>ic. In order u> make the str.--t wat«ring more effective, hj- recouiiiK-nd-d tlie «•!>•« tiou of four more stand pipe*, at a co*t of £SO, or the u<e ot h«.*»e and hydiant to till the waggon. He iftkrd the Conned to cori*id«T th>- n«e of a d< < >inf<*ctant in th«« wafer car;. .*«»' one.- a we>k. He «ibniitt<-d a. *ampl- of a pJfejit solub!«* dironfectaut, t<> 1>- in She cart, ,Hid Mat-d that tiw 4-u»t would be als/Mt 6r» a dav. '1 lt<eleaning of the «a!« r race ira* making good progr<r». the uiur h'-jng cut utl aWouit«-» Ijnuri i day lor Ipurjxjse. The i-ouiunii«-r recornnierid tii« adoption of th"* report, mcludint; the rrwtion of it!and pJl«e«. a trial of th<- »treet d«smf<-ct an", and *onie attention to ]JeVrrl«-y road in tlie ordinarv cour**. SA XifA It V IXSPKCTOH.

Mr J. H Stiiith reportol that ho had mad» a hou«" to hot I *-- ;iß.j»-ct)nn ot t.ti i\tre»t<. Thirteen notices to abate nm« .moB had been *j»u«"d an-1 att>nd«<l to. Hf had !er.i'-d and in«p>->*t*d drain* on :wc!v«* pr»-mi*-«, and tutnitary plumbing

in 'six• buildings. Anoverhanging gorse htidge'in Regent street had Been cut back. During- t&e-jiast eix cases of infectious disease —-four of scarlet -fever, * and one each of diphtheria and typhoid had been reported. He had disinfected fiix rooms in various dwellings.