Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1920-21 (November 1920 - November 1921) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-20
| Election of Town Councillors: Ward 1 - Robert Davis, Norbay, 362 votes; Ward 2 - Charles William Buik, Braeknowe & Garnet Douglas Wilson, Netherfield, 20 Kilnburn Place - no poll; Ward 3 - James Barry Robb, Whinhurst. |
| Council: Ward 1: John Thomson Young, elected 1919; William Forrest French, elected 1919, Junior Bailie; Robert Davis, elected 1920. Ward 2: Alexander Macfarlane Anderson, elected 1919; Garnet Douglas Wilson, elected 1920; Charles William Buik, elected 1920. Ward 3: Francis Ingram Oakley, elected 1919, Senior Bailie; James Coutts, elected 1913, Provost; James Barry Robb, elected 1920. |
| Cottages at Wormit: Messrs D M Gibb, acting for proprietor, would be pleased to receive an offer for them. Council won't buy, proprietor to put them in order or sell them on. |
| Accounts: Town Clerk allocated £265 to enable him to meet the price of the site at East Newport Station. |
| Housing planned for East Newport Station site. Cost of houses at Station Brae: £12993-17-7 for 12 houses. |
| Approved layout plans for housing at Wormit. |
| December 1920. Assessment schedule for the year is approved. |
| Train and boat service: efforts to have it returned to a pre-war frequency. |
| Death of ex-councillor Lindsay. |
| Wormit war memorial: Council to take it over for all time coming. Mrs Orchison, Carseview, had granted the corner site. |
| New off-road drainage for Flass Road. |
| March 1921. Wormit site: Council take occupation of ground at Whitsunday next. |
| Coal emergency order. |
| Resignation of Frederick G Kemp (medical grounds, advanced years) as Town Chamberlain from 15 May next. |
| Temperance poll (held November 1920) had resulted in restriction of licences of Mr Charles Barrie and Mr Bowden. |
| Places for public refreshment: Mrs Janet Wannan, Robertson Place; Mrs Rachel Gilmour, Bay Road - interconnecting door with house. |
| 4 houses planned for Wormit. |
| Burgh surveyor's report: 1 blacksmith, 5 boot repairers, 2 cabinet makers & upholsterers, 1 carpet beater, 3 cycle & motor car repairers, 2 dressmakers, 1 electrical works, 1 hairdresser, 1 hotel, 1 ironmonger, 4 joiners, 2 masons, 1 milliner, 1 optician, 4 painters, 1 plasterer, 3 plumbers, 3 restaurants, 2 slaters, 2 tailors, 1 underclothing & baby linen maker, 1 watch & jewellery repairer, 2 bakehouses, 3 licensed dairymen / cow-keepers, 2 milk shops, 6 milk purveyors (36 cows in byres). |
| 20 Dean of Guild new building applications. |
| Appoint S P Nicoll as Burgh Chamberlain (presently Assistant). Mr Kemp had acted for the Burgh for 34 years. |
| Trains: the 'dinner trains' had stopped - complaints from Council. |
| Formation of a street separating Struan Place properties from the Newport housing site - 'Struan Street'. |
| Rents of new houses: 3-roomed £24 per annum, 4-roomed £28 per annum. |
| Mr Gilchrist, joiner, to erect some houses at Newburgh Road, Wormit. |
| New sewer extension at Newburgh Road, Wormit - from the lamp-post opposite the cottages belonging to Mr Johnstone for 59 lineal yards. |
| June 1921. Fire at Comerton Home - Newport fire brigade was in attendance. |
| Wormit housing scheme has been delayed by the government. |
| Miss Helen T Dunn appointed Assistant Burgh Chamberlain. |
| Bathing sheds at East Newport braes. |
| Retiring: Councillors J T Young, A M Anderson, F I Oakley. |
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