CITY COUNCIL MEETS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 69, 23 April 1929, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL MEETS

■t> LAST MEETING BEFORE ELECTTONS. LEPARTING COUNCI LLORS FAREWELL El). The last meeting of that bodv bei fore tlie elections was held by the Napier City Council last niglit, iMr .) . Ytgor Brown presiding over an att( ndance of Crs. E. W. Goodger, F. i Lice. C. 1). Cox, J. Ft. .T. Hindmarsli, I*. F. llitigins, A. E. Bedlord, C. 11. ; VY ilkie. . G. Martin and 1:1. J. Ilar- : man. i As tliis was the last meeting of tlm j rouncil opjiortunity was taken by tlie , Mnyor and Deputy-Mayor to exprcss apju'eeiation of tlie serviees rendered ' t v tlie retiiing eoiincillors, Crs. Wilk.o and Ilarman. and to oxpre^-s regret that tbey conld not see their way olear to serve a further tcnn. Botli eounciliors made npprojinate responses to tho valedictory speeches. Tlie chairman of tlie Central School Cmnmittee wrote drawing attention to jthe serious danger to whieh pnpils of j li's K-hool are suhjocted by speeding j n,( tor ears. Tle states tliat improv"ment would be ell'ected if tbe t-rafiie in-sper-tor wero to pay an occasional visit to tlie Terrace? in tlie vicinity of tlie scl.ool. On tbe motion ot Cr. ilartin tbe suggestion 'vas adopted. Tbe sf.eretary of the Xapier f'oxing ; A'-sociation wrote iiif|uiiing wliether ; ai 1 angements cnuld be made for tlie use of tbe tlieatrc ( staue only) for tlie pnrpose of running amateur boxing orntests. and tlie cliarge. Tbe letter stated tliat tbe association intended to rnn houts every seeond Saturday evening if suitable arrangements couid be eome to, but tbe dav miglit be al tered from Saturday. Tlie appliration [was refeired to the tlieatre committee. The urgent necessitv for improye 1 ! lighting in Ihe shnpping area, ospeoia1- | ly community liebtincr. was stressed in j a. letter hefore the council. 'llie letter was referred to tho tlieatre committee, it heing explained tliat tlie introduction of community lighting had been dclaved through the cliange over and the fact that the relailers had not yec rcplied to the council's letter on the suhiect. A. Douglas Spiers wrote forwarcling an acconnt for professional fees on beliaTf of the assoeiated nrcbitects of Napier in connection with the compiehensive sketch plan for tbe ereetion of buildings to covcr tlie whole of the Market Reserve block. Tbe Cominission was £1.850, being 1| per eent of tlie estimated eoist of the buildings, £90,000. Tlie letter was referred to tlie speeial committee deaiing with the Market Reserve block. Tlie acting secretary of the Napi°r Harbour Board wrote stating that tbe lioard is proposing to take up again tho matter of tlie disposal of the reserve lying between the Napier Boys' 1'igh Scliool and Ihe Napier Sonth Primarv Scliool, with tlie education autliorities, the letter being received. The council decided that representativos of the Rnghy Union, Hoekey Association and Soccer Association he asked to confer with the chairman of tlus committee and the horough engmeer regarding the alloeation of grounds on Nelson IJark, as follows: — Socecr, one ground at Jull street end ; boclcey. two grounds at Morris street end; Rughv, two or three grounds as tontatively arrangcd.