Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1903-04 (November 1903 - November 1904) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-3
| Elected: G R Thom; William Carswell; James Ogilvy Adams (after a poll) |
| Council: Ward 1: Thomas Roger, elected 1902, Provost; James Young, elected 1902, Bailie; George Robert Thom, elected 1903. Ward 2: Robert T Leitch, elected 1902; John Petrie Robertson, elected 1902; William Carswell, elected 1903. Ward 3: William Cowley, elected 1902; William Robertson, elected 1902, Bailie; James Ogilvy Adams, elected 1903. |
| [No note about changing of bailies - presume previous status continues.] |
| Old gasworks site: feu of 1865 - plan showing portion now proposed to be sold 7 poles 25 yards - upset price £120. |
| Alexander Stewart's house plans approved. |
| Wormit electric line will be 28 feet from the ground - approved subject to no liability to Council. |
| Underground bakehouses - Mr James Young's in High Street is the only one - suitable. |
| William Mathewson, dairyman, Craighead Farm - licence for premises at Robertson Place, Cupar Road. |
| Death of James Dunse, Burgh Officer. Appointed Lawrence Anderson. |
| Burgh Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector - posts to be amalgamated to 1 full time. |
| Plans: Collie - shed (shelter for horses & machinery) - addition to existing. D & W Mackie, builders, Newport - 2 semi-detached cottages in Victoria Street. |
| Burgh Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector: Mr Cappon would resign at any time. Mr Walker, sanitary inspector, wouldn't. Seek to remove him. |
| Plans: David Smith - plans for villa on ground at un-named street, Wormit. Alexander Stewart's house alterations - he must adhere to Town Council's amended plans. |
| March 1904. James Stanford now dairyman at Craighead, John Peebles at Scroggieside & Mr Rhind at Woodhaven - purveyors of milk. |
| Old gasworks site - part purchased by David Innes Young, baker - £208. |
| Town Council to take over public lavatories at Newport pier. |
| Appoint new Burgh Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector and re-allocate Walker's duties. Walker to act as Burgh Foreman - he is satisfied. |
| Plans: George Duncan, Wormit - addition (sitting room) at The Tower, plus stable buildings and cottage. David I Young - shops & workshops in High Street. |
| Forgan Parish Council wards. |
| Woodhaven dairy - satisfactory; Scroggieside (Peebles) - unsatisfactory. |
| Proposed station at Woodhaven (proposed by St Fort) - no, move West Station further west. |
| April / May 1904. Mr Donald, Arbroath - Burgh Surveyor (full time) & resignation of Mr Cappon. |
| ? sale of rest of gasworks site from Gas Dept. to Town Council? - Property in sasines 23 September 1901 (to Town Council), excluding that already sold to Young (sasines 10 March 1904). |
| Tayside Electric Co - would sell its plant to Town Council - take no action. |
| Mr Walker to take his instructions from Burgh Surveyor not from Convenors as before. |
| Old gas holders: site filled in. |
| Widen the road at Buist's corner - take 190 feet x 6 feet from St Fort. |
| Signposts for dangerous bends at Buist's corner; top of Cupar Road; High Street / Cupar Road; Kinbrae. |
| Costs of erecting block of 4 houses for workmen at new gasworks. |
| Additional lamps for Wormit - '1 at top of steps leading off Parkhill Road'. [Hillpark Road?] |
| Scroggieside dairy - not up to standards. Proprietor has left the country. |
| Formation of street at Mr David Smith's feu, Wormit. |
| Extension of Norwood / Causeyhead Road. |
| Walker - not carrying out Burgh Surveyor's instructions - warning. |
| ? lamp at Peter Bisset's house, Riverside, West Newport? |
| Retiring: James Young, Robert T Leitch, William Cowley. |
| New street at Wormit: respondents Birrell, Adams & Anderson, petitioner Wedderburn - whole street to be 30 feet wide not, as at present, 25 feet at the northern end. Birkhill to give Birrell additional ground and title to it. |
| Gas works houses - too far from Burgh - scrap the idea. |
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