CITY COUNCIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19800, 18 November 1919, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL.

FORTNIGHTLY MEETING,

The Christchurch City Council mot last night after a,n interval of three weeks. There were present:—Councillors J. W. Ben.nla.nd (Deputy-Mayor), IT. Hunter, H. F. Herbert, K. E. Langley, D. G. Sullivan, E. H. Andrews. J. Qj Jameson, W. CCicholls, C. Harper, A. M’Rollar, .1. A. Fleshev, A. Williams, C. P. Agar and H. T. Armstrong. Apologies tor absence were received from the Mayor (Hr Thacker, M.P.) and Councillor F. Bnrgoyne. Councillor Beanland reported that a deputation had waited on the Traffic. Committer of the Tramway Board in regard to the proposed tramway extension to the Bromley Cemetery. The board seemed stall to be opposed to the line, hut, proposals might ho made that the council should subsidise a line, or a bus might be run from Ferry Road or Buckley's Road. Councillors J. W. Beanland and C. S. Harper were appointed the council’s representatives on the. Dean's Bush Board of Trustees, a motion being carried that the chairman of the Works and Reserves Committees should hold office automatically. Mrs A. C. M'Lcan, widow of the late lessee of the hoatsheds near Montreal StroeV, wrote asking leave to sell the business as it stood. Permission was granted subject tc the approval of the Reserves Committee. Mr .lames Johnston wrote accepting tho council's offer of £25 for a strip of his land for widening Clare Road. A subsidy, up to £25. was granted for the library of tho Electricity Department's Welfare Club. The following tenders were accepted: Bitumen —Ashby, Be.rgh and Co., 100 tons at its ton nett; underground conduit —Chrjstchurch Brick Company, 9500 yards conduit at per foot, £IOO9 7s 6d, 9500 yards covers for conduits at OJcl per tool, £415 12s. A bonus of 10 per cent was granted to Mr A. Howard, contractor for tho removal of nightsoil. The Bv-ls.wa Committee reported that a company intended subdividing a block c{ land in St Albans and had asked if the council would undertake tho forming of new street proposed to be laid out. The committee recommended that the request! should he complied with. Tho report was

adopted. . , On Councillor Hunter a motion it was resolved to request the district health officer to report on the cause of diphtheria cases at Waltham. The district health officer wrote, staling that the Minister of Public Health had approved of the erection at the intersection of Cashel and High Streets of a urinal contninin" eight stalls, four waterclosets and a lavatory. "at an estimated cost of £IBOO. Approval had been given for the substitution of fireclay filments in the existing iron structures throughout the city, at a cost of £52. The money could ha raised without a poll, The letter was referred to the Works Committee lor a report