Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1923-24 (November 1923 - November 1924) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-23
| Election of Town Councillors: Ward 1: Robert Davis, Norbay, no poll. Ward 2: Alexander Macfarlane Anderson, Dunalastair, no poll. Ward 3: James Barry Robb, Whinhurst, 265 votes. |
| Council: Ward 1: John Thomson Young, elected 1921, Senior Bailie; William Forrest French, elected 1922; Robert Davis, elected 1923. Ward 2: Garnet Douglas Wilson, elected 1922, Junior Bailie; Charles William Buik, elected 1920, Provost; Alexander Macfarlane Anderson, elected 1923. Ward 3: Francis Ingram Oakley, elected 1921; George Tudhope, elected 1922; James Barry Robb, elected 1923. |
| Milk licences (for sterilised milk from sealed bottles): G P Barrie, Albert Street, Dundee; Alex. Young, grocer, Union Street; Thomas Roger & Sons, grocers, High Street; Mrs Burnett, Robert Street. |
| Possibility of road bridge across the Tay - form a watching committee. |
| Various likely places for a dump: Northfield Quarry and the Canons opposite the gasworks - not suitable. |
| Gully on north side of road immediately opposite the foot of Northfield Road. Berry was agreeable. |
| December 1923. Death of Daniel Lawson, a former Magistrate of the burgh. |
| Wormit electric light: cost to install electric light in Burgh of Newport would be £18000 - £20000. Do nothing. |
| Dump: Canons site is preferable. |
| Putting green is to be built by private enterprise in Newport, therefore Council will not provide one. |
| Dump at Canons: low-lying ground down by the shore. 40 poles, working from the road eastwards. |
| January 1924. New houses at Kirk Road being erected: Allison and Behrens. |
| Fife Tramways Light & Power Co. proposed to apply to Electricity Commissioners for a special order under the Fife Electric Lighting Order 1911 to include the burgh - deferred. Not to go ahead (by the Council). |
| Newly-built garage at Boat Road - John T Young. |
| Wormit Electric Light Co. Ltd.: poles to be erected from east of tennis courts to west of goods entrance to railway station, thence west across homes in Bay Road. |
| Cast iron ventilating shaft 14' high above the surface of the ground for Bay Road sewer. |
| List of types of nuisances reported. |
| Dumps: required to remove from site of dump in field near Tayport Road close by the railway bridge (only used for 1 year) leaving only 1 dump at Flass Road, Woodhaven. Additionally, now have the Canons. |
| New building: Jean B Sturrock, Kirk Road. New road to run parallel to Kirk Road. |
| Electric light: reconsidered. Committee to look into supply of whole burgh. |
| Dairies: J F Caldwell, St Margarets Dairy, James Street. |
| April 1924. Letter to railway company asking for a station on the main line at Wormit. |
| Re-numbering Kilnburn Place and Kilnburn Terrace. |
| Education Authority is feuing ground east of Wormit Primary School. |
| Post box required at Woodhaven - agreed to. |
| 15 June 1924. 800th anniversary of Forgan Church. |
| Blyth Hall Transfer Order 1914; Blyth Hall Transfer Order Confirmation Act 1914. |
| Railway company refuse station on main line at Wormit. |
| 22 July 1924. Housing Act 1923: £75 grants for erection of new private houses. Also loans available. |
| Price of gas: 4/4d. per 1000 cu. ft.; 4/8d. via slot meters. Gas for motive power: deduct 10%. |
| August / September 1924. Death of Mrs Kemp. |
| Rates: 1s 2.5d per £, + 0.5d per £ for Blyth Hall Transfer Order; 8d per £ for roads; 3.5d per £ for public health & housing; 3d per £ for No 1 drainage district; 6d per £ for No 2 drainage district. Payable half by owner, half by occupier, except for occupants of premises less than £4 and lets for less than 1 year which are paid in full by owner. |
| German guns in front of Blyth Hall - to be removed to the old rifle shed. |
| Retiring: J T Young, G D Wilson, F I Oakley. |
| Request for housing subsidy and loan by Mr J Swan Curtis, Elmslea, Wormit for houses to be built at Newburgh Road, Wormit - agreed grant of £75, loan of 75% of value of buildings. Other requests by Mr J Lawson Wallace, bootmaker, Union Street & John Stevenson, engineer, The Terrace - no plans yet. |
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