BOROUGH COUNCILS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14283, 25 August 1910, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCILS.

WAIMATE, The- W annate Borough Council met <">n Tuesday night, Pieient —Tibs Deputy Mayor (Councillor lnksten. and Councillors Jones, Cox. Collett. Hunt, Miller, Hutt, Sanders, and Manchester. Mr J. W. Williams, C.E., offered in report on. :i. drainage scheme. —Referred to sanitary committee. 11. Byron asked for refund of dog registration fee paid in error. —Left to Deputy Mayor and Town Clerk. J. Barnard asked for iea.se of land on Town Bolt.—By-Law committee to make enquiries and report. The Timaru Hugh School Board asked flie Council to nominate a representative in place of ilr .J. Harold Moore resigned.—Mi' (: .Basil was recommended for appointment. and the Council revolved to thank Mr Moore lor his past services. Messrs Saddler and Butcher were granted a. motor carriage license. The works commit lee reported that it could not recommend any change in the method ot payment oi the Jiurnugh Jia uger. IS. liaien applied for improvement, to loolpatii in .Parsonage K-oad, fronting his pioperty.—.Referred to works committee.

The livi-luw committee after inquiry reported on the question of license fee collected on St. Augustine's Hall, and recommended .that the Council's decision he adhered to as the hall had been repeatedly used for oilier than church purposes. They recommended that the hall he supplied with water for tiro prevention purposes; that, the front doors be fitted to lock open while the hall is in use: and thatthe request for a refund oi license fees paid be respectlull declined. —The report ww adopted. A special committee appointed to report upon an application by the South Canterbury Education Board recommended that as the Council has no section of the area required unlet, if the Board can make arrangements with any of the .Borough tenants for the -transfer of a suitable block the Council should offer no objection to the transfer of such lease. — Agreed to. The water Committee recommended the erection of two additional .standpipes lor water cart purposes, and that a trial lot of concrete blocks be made lor the purpose of protecting the hydrant and sluice boxes, the men to he employed making such blocks durwet weather.—Adopted. , i hree tenders ]or shingling were received and that of W. Cochrane at Is lUd per yard was accepted. lenders ior purchase ot material in old pound were iniermal and were referred to Councillors Jones and Sanders for report. Accounts tor £,5 Os 4d were passed for payment. Notice of intention to make the. following rates was given:—General 3-Jd m the C on unimproved value: water raies as Wort', Sanitary charge Ss per pan. Ihe first means a reduction in the i„>te for the year of id ill the £ the genera.] rate last year being 3'd. '