Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1899-00 (November 1899 - November 1900) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-1B
| Elected: Robert Thomson Leitch, Hill Crest, West Newport; Thomas Roger, Tay Terrace; George Robertson Thom, Linden Avenue. |
| Commissioners: James Lawson, elected 1897, First Bailie (already a Bailie); John Welch, elected 1897; David Brand, elected 1897; Alexander Thomson, elected 1898, Provost (elected today); James Young, elected 1898; Alexander Robertson, elected 1898, Second Bailie; George Thom, elected 1899, Robert Leitch, elected 1899; Thomas Roger, elected 1899. |
| Votes for Provost: Thomas Roger - 2; Alexander Thomson - 4. |
| Votes for Second Bailie: James Young - 2; Alexander Robertson - 4. |
| Plans by Alexander Robertson, retired, East Newport: shops & clubrooms on ground adjoining Cupar Road and Tayport Road - delayed - ? height of 2-storey part on the south?- later approved. |
| Plans by John T Young - entrance to cycle store from Boat Road - approved (temporary structure). |
| Plans for a new street by Berry - from Kirk Road to West Station - approved. |
| Representations for a platform on the main line at Wormit (Parish Council & Commissioners jointly). |
| Letter from Robert Just, West Newport complaining of Commissioners having covered up a well in the bleaching green adjoining Mr Just's property at the Terrace. Burgh Surveyor (on instructions of ex-Provost Leitch) covered over the well. Provost Thomson to see Mr Just. |
| Water supply to higher parts of burgh is defective. |
| Gas lighting of the burgh by the Commissioners. |
| Electric lighting of the burgh - 'at the proper time, commissioners should apply for an order to do this' and to intimate same to secretary of Newport Gas Light Co., and Tayside Electric & Gas Light Co. Ltd. Burgh Gas Supply Act, 1876. |
| Appeals on assessment: Salvation Army - Hall is used for religious purposes only. Various other persons on grounds of poverty. |
| Electricity: might be advantageous to all if, from the Burgh's installation, a supply might be given to the Wormit & Woodhaven area for which an order is now asked by the 'Tayside' [sic] company. ? Get the Tayside Co to withdraw their application to consider Newport - Woodhaven - Wormit lighting as a whole? Write to Board of Trade re Commissioners applying for an order and to delay the Tayside application. |
| Mr Geddes - proprietor of a villa opposite West Station. |
| Well in Just's bleaching green - satisfaction reported. |
| February 1900. Death of Thomas Congleton, sometime clerk to the Commissioners. He was the first clerk until he became a Sheriff Clerk. |
| Electric lighting: meeting with two directors of Tayside Co. - Mr Stewart & Mr Winton - Tayside couldn't withdraw their application. Who was to light the burgh? |
| Plan by Thomas Muir Son & Patton - office at Station Road. |
| Mr Macdougald, Wormit, appointed public analyst for the burgh (he is also City Analyst, Dundee). |
| Committee to consider the lighting of the burgh. |
| Sand for blinding roads was available from the site of Mr Cappon's new villas at Albert Street free of charge. |
| Complaint re Mr Walter Stark's bakehouse, Robert Street. |
| Vacancy on Commissioners: Mr John Welch's non-attendance for 6 months (ill health). He is now better and needs to be re-elected until November next. |
| Complaint re water spouts at house where Thomas Duncan resides being broken, water going on to Mr Pearson's house. |
| Plan by George Johnston, joiner - joiner's workshop & stable, Robert Street |
| Water supply: landed proprietors can raise £1000, can the Commissioners raise £1000 to induce Dundee to build a reservoir at a higher level? Commissioners cannot raise £1000. Can the landed proprietors raise £2000? No. |
| Ex-Provost Scott was the first Provost, ex-Provost Leitch was the second Provost of the Burgh. |
| Lighting: Newport Gas Light Co. intend to apply for an order for supplying electricity within the burgh (Gas Light Co. - John Donaldson, merchant; John Ferguson, teacher; John Adam St Quentin Leng, journalist; James Brown, retired builder; James Chapman, confectioner.) Consent by Commissioners to apply for an order? Wait while discussions with Tayside Co. take place. |
| Lighting: agreement between Newport Gas Light Co. and Tayside Co. extending existing agreement from 1900 to 1901 - therefore withdraw application for an electricity order by the Newport Co. |
| Proposal by North British Electricity Supply Co, South Shields who intend to apply for an order to supply electrical energy to Newport - opposed. |
| Victoria Street is the main access to East Station. |
| Plans by Andrew Scott, shiprigger, Wormit - washhouse etc at 5, 6, 7, 8 Alma Terrace. |
| Waterstone Crook - handed over by Berry for use as football and cricket ground. ? Skating pond too? - no. |
| Retiring: Lawson, Brand, Welch. |
| Street naming: Robertson Place - put up without Mr A J Robertson's authority on new buildings on property of Taybank. Commissioners will shortly be naming all streets. From Dr Stewart's to Tayport Road will probably be St Phillans Place (or Street). ? rename his buildings Robertson Buildings? |
| Complaint by Pearson re gable at T Duncan's property - burgh surveyor didn't think it dangerous. |
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