Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1906-07 (November 1906 - November 1907) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-6
| Elected: George Rollo, Robert Leitch, James Strachan. |
| Council: Ward 1: James Young, elected 1904, Senior Bailie; Simon Forrest, elected 1905, Junior Bailie; George Rollo, elected 1906. Ward 2: William Carswell, elected 1903, Provost; John Petrie Robertson, elected 1905; Robert Thomson Leitch, elected 1906. Ward 3: William Cowley, elected 1904; William Robertson, elected 1905; James Strachan, elected 1906. |
| Old Cottage, High Street - request to use it by Working Mens Club. |
| Gas supply: request by Henry Johnston, joiner, Wormit for 2 cottages he is erecting beyond Wormit Farm - not possible. |
| Electric lighting - letter from Mr Stewart & plan - not accepted. |
| Offensive smell at Wormit Electric Station. |
| December 1906. Deaths of Sir John Leng and Mr W Y Blyth Martin. |
| Old cottage at High Street - sell it, upset price £50, entry by Whitsunday next, plus demolish and rebuild. |
| John T Young - additions to buildings fronting on both Boat Road and High Road. |
| Mortuary suggested at burgh yard. |
| Old Cottage, High Street - purchased by David Innes Young, baker. |
| Noise at Wormit from generating engine on main road - Mr Alex. Stewart, present, to sort it out. |
| Thomas Moffat, baker, Woodhaven - ? refreshment stall at Waterstone Park - similar terms to Mrs Band. |
| Public convenience to be erected on Braes. |
| Mr D I Young - erecting shops on site adjoining footpath from High Street to Gas Lane. |
| Wormit - wires (overhead) from the electric station along the new street in front of Mr David Smith's house and the Newburgh Road to certain cottages beyond the burgh boundary. Mr J Herbert Smith's new house at Craighead is mostly outside the burgh boundary. |
| Plans: D I Young, baker - shops on north side of High Street. |
| Main line station at Wormit. |
| Mortuary to be at west end of burgh yard. |
| Plans: alterations to St Fillans U.F. Hall, William Street. |
| Application for a lamp at Fishers Road, Woodhaven [sic] - ?would houses there be likely to take in gas? |
| Gas lighting included the parish church clock and light at the pier. |
| Agreed gas lamp at Fishers Road. |
| New house at Wormit for Mr Henry P Robbie - new street not yet approved by Council - defer. |
| [Wormit Electric] Noise from suction gas engine - being kept going all night. |
| Take over new street from Hillpark Terrace / Mount Stewart Road westwards to west boundary of Mr D Smith's feu - 'Viewmount Road'. |
| Agreed extend gas main 125 yards beyond Wormit Farm steading to Mr Johnston's new cottages. |
| Gas lamps - some meters to be installed to monitor supply of gas. |
| William Walker, foreman of burgh staff - ? increase of wages? |
| Approve new street (continuation of Viewmount Road). |
| Retiring: J Young, J P Robertson, Wm. Cowley. |
| Plans approved: house at Wormit - Mr Henry P Robbie. |
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