BOROUGH COUNCIL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 666, 1 October 1891, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL

An ordinary meeting of the above was held on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor and Crs Somervell, Dunlop, Joyce, Hepburn, Taylor, Harding, Whinray, and Akroyd. Mr F. Skeet asked that the grass be cleared from the footpath from Childers road to bis residence in Bright street, and he would have the path opposite his residence done at his own expense. —Cr Hepburn said there were many other places more requiring attention.—The Overseer estimated the cost at £l.—Cr Wbinray proposed that it be done, and Cr Harding seconded.—Agreed to, not to exceed £l. The Wellington City Council offered to sell the Council some lamps which were no longer required, on account of the introduc* tion cf the electric light.—No lamps were required at present.—Cr Whinray believed that in a couple of years Gisborne would have the electric light. The Cemetery Committee applied for a grant of £lO for the cemetery purposes. In reply to the Mayor, the Clerk said £25 had been granted last year.—Cr Dunlop thought the fees should be regulated to cover expenses.—The Mayor said the fees were unusually high now.—Cr Lewis asked whether entertainments of some kind cou'd not be got up? He moved that the amount now asked be granted —Cr Joyce considered it very satisfactory that there were so few deaths in the place.—lt was resolved to grant the amount. The County Council wrote suggesting that the Borough should announce the Taruheru bridge unsafe for heavy loads until redecking work had been completed.--The Overseer said he had conferred with Captain Winter, who had recommended that the bridge be redecked. The Overseer’s report Stated that Captain Winter was of opinion that the bridge should be redecked, but that it would be unwise to redeck on the present one, owing to the uneven surface. This would take 17,528 ft timber, not including the swing portion, which had recently been decked. The cost would be £l9O 6s; or redecking on the present structure (including ■wing portion,) £l2O 7s 6d. Or Whinray said if they attempted to redeck on the present structure it would leave a large quantity of timber to rot—the £7O would not represent the difference, because a lot of the timber would be useful if lifted before the decking was done —The Mayor thought in face of the recommendation, they had no option but to put a new deck on, and Councillors endorsed this view. —Cr Harding moved that the recommendation be complied with, the old deck to be taken up.— Cr Whinray seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.—Cr Somervell: We’ve got the money, haven’t we?-The Mayor: The money will have to be put into it and le’ something else go—that’s all; it must be done.—Cr Lewis asked whether the work was to be done by day labor or not ?—Cr Riding moved that tenders be called for the supply timber,—The question arose as to whether seasoned timber was necessary. Cr Somervell said the seasoning would not matter. He thought the work should be got in hand 68 soon as possib’e —lt was resolved that tenders should be called for the timber, to be in bv noon on Friday, also that the public be notified of the state of the bridge. While the water channels were being done the Overseer recommended that the block on the southern side of Gladstone Road, from Bright to Peel street, be done.—Agreed to. The following accounts were passed for payment, besides the ordinary salaries R, Knox £lO, J. Kenny £2 9s, F. Hicks £5 12s 6d, bridges account £2, Cemetery Trustees £lO, Charitable Aid Board £59 10s. Cr Taylor said he thought, now that lamp posts were being offered to them at a cheap rate, two lamps should be fixed along Palmer* ■ton road, where they were badly required. He moved that two lamps be procured for the purpose.—Cr Joyce seconded.—The Mayor ■aid in the present state of their funds they had now as many lamps as they could maintain.—Or Somervell said he of course would

like to see something done for his end of the town, but he would prefer to have the money spent on the roads—ihey could manage without lamps for the present, but the money lamps would cost would be serviceable in remedying the puddles which a shower of rain always caused. He considered that Gladstone road bad too many lamps now, and if the motion was to shift a couple of them into the other street he would favor it.— Or Hepburn agreed that it was on ths roads the money should be spent. Mon?y was Continually being spent on the lower end of the town, while things were in a wretched State at the upper end.—Only the mover and seconder voted for the motion,