Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1907-08 (November 1907 - November 1908) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-7
| Parish Council election: Ward 1: William Gilchrist Fairweather, St Phillans Place; Simon Forrest, Craig-Ard; James Husband, Lyndhurst. Ward 2: William Peebles, High Street; David H Robertson, 17 Kilnburn Place; James Young, High Street. Ward 3: James G Belford, Tayside, Wormit; David Hunter Gowans, Gowanlea; Alexander Johnston, Rowanbank. |
| Municipal election: elected James Young, High Street; Daniel Lawson, Kilnburn House; James Coutts, Clifton, Wormit, no polls. |
| Council: Ward 1: Simon Forrest, elected 1905, Senior Bailie; George Rollo, elected 1906; James Young, elected 1907. Ward 2: William Carswell, Ascot, elected 1903, Provost; Robert Thomson Leitch, elected 1906; Daniel Lawson, elected 1907. Ward 3: William Robertson, elected 1905; James Strachan, elected 1906, Junior Bailie; James Coutts, elected 1907. |
| Mr David Donald, burgh surveyor resigned. |
| Old well at Bay Road near Mr Chapman's house. |
| Suction gas engine at Wormit - complaint. |
| Mr Walker - burgh foreman for 20 years. |
| Mortuary - delay at present. |
| Acquire ashpit ground at Varna Cottage (site needed for footpath). |
| Traffic - carts and animals at pier entrance. |
| John Mathers appointed burgh surveyor. |
| Manse Road - [now Gowrie Street]. |
| Viewmount Road - Birkhill estate has just feued ground 110 feet south of Mr Robbie's feu. |
| Old sandhole site (corner of Cupar Road and Inverdovat Road) - ? for garden rubbish? |
| Edinburgh Foresters etc. sold 'Ballochmyle' at public roup 22 January 1908 to John Justice Batchelor, Rossie Cottage. |
| ?Mainline station at Wormit? - railway company says no. |
| Application for gas supply to Mr W A Mitchell's house at St Fort Road [sic: this is now Kilmany Road] 719 yards beyond the end of the 4-inch main - extend the main. |
| Convenience at Braes - completed. Need for one in Wormit. |
| Footpath from Hillpark Terrace on west of The Tower - some owners want it taken over, but not all. No action meantime. |
| Need for recreation ground at Wormit. |
| Rowdyism at Waterston Park. |
| Matthew Morrison - slaughter house at old pier - re-licensed. |
| Westfield Terrace - plans by Mr Robert Chalmers, West Newport, to erect a villa and turn it into a cul-de-sac - could not be prevented. |
| Inadequate water supply - one main supplying Newport & Tayport is no good. |
| June 1908. Complaint from Mr D Mackenzie, Wormit of noise from engine and machinery of Tayside Electric Co. - many times before, have tried to obviate the cause of the noise - copy letter to N B Railway Co (on whose ground the engine is) to ask Mr Stewart to obviate all cause for complaint, the Council's efforts having failed. |
| Letter from Mr Stewart - he is preparing plans for the extension of the electric light eastwards to include Newport & Tayport; more details of complaint, please. Council do not wish the introduction of electric light in the Burgh. |
| Refusal of planning consent for shops etc. proposed at corner of Newburgh Road and Hillpark Road by Mr Alex. Stewart - less than 25' from centre of roadway. |
| September 1908. Speed limits - 10 m.p.h. - apply to Secretary of State for: Cupar Road (High Street to burgh boundary); High Street; Boat Road; Boat Brae; High Road; Newburgh Road (High Street to burgh boundary [near Wormit Farm steading]); Tay Street (High Street to burgh boundary). |
| Mention of Castle Road [presumably Castle Brae]. |
| Plans approved: reconstruction of shop & premises, Newburgh Road - Peter D Wighton, grocer. |
| Complaint - Mr S J Marquis - noise of suction gas engine at Wormit. |
| Retiring: Simon Forrest, William Carswell, William Robertson. |
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