BOROUGH AFFAIRS

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIII, Issue 4045, 25 September 1944, Page 2

BOROUGH AFFAIRS

COMMITTEES BUSY VARIOUS WORKS The following Committees' recommendations were adopted at the monthly meeting of the Borough. Council last week: — Works Committee. That henceforth ordinary building and plumbing and drainage permits be issued by the Borough Engineer.—Mr Levi'is said this would save a lot of trouble. Crs. Cummings, Willis and the Borough Engineer be given power to take what action they, consider necessary as a result of the School Committee's complaint regarding traffic visibility at the Princes Street and Victoria. Street corner. Also to deal with Mr A. D. Brown'-; .request to have the tree outside his ■Service Station removed. Mr D. J. Lundon's advice of the delay in pulling down the partially burned building owned by Mr D. Russo, as a result of the owner's ill health be noted. (The matter must be attended to without further delay.) The State Advances Corporation be notified of the Council's intention not to assume legal control of Hurley Place until a four-inch con- - prete footpath is constructed on both sides of this street. That authority from the Wages Commissioner to pay an additional £26 per annum to the Borough Foreman for inspection work be noted and he now be made permanently Borough Inspector. That the plan of the realignment of the roadway on the corner of Fort and Duke streets be handed to the Borough Engineer, and that advice of the Department's intention to complete before the end of September the concrete embankment together with suitable access to Miss Bender's property be noted with satisfaction. That following Mr E.'E. Andrews' complaint regarding the flooding of his Richmond Street property, the engineer be directed to take levels with a view to making a recommendation for the clearing of both the Taylor and McLean streets drains. That the request of the Fire Brigade Superintendent to have the fire-plug on the corner of Williams and Bowen streets removed from the low-pressure main and attached to the high-pressure supply be granted.