Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1932-33 (November 1932 - November 1933) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-32
| Election of Town Councillors: Ward 1: Arthur S Cram, 3 Prospect Terrace, no poll. Ward 2: George Scrymgeour, Cadzow, no poll. Ward 3: John Wilkie, Milburn Cottage, Bay Road, 287 votes. |
| Council: Ward 1: John Thomson Young, elected 1930, Provost; Frank Howard Fairweather, elected 1931; Arthur S Cram, elected 1932. Ward 2: George Peattie, elected 1930; Thomas Mitchell, elected 1931; George Scrymgeour, elected 1932, Junior Bailie. Ward 3: George Tudhope, elected 1930, Senior Bailie; George Rain Little, elected 1931; John Wilkie, elected 1932. |
| No Sunday train service at West Newport. |
| Installation of 2 stamp vending machines at Post Office. |
| Extension of street lighting to Newton Park. |
| Hotel yard & Gas Lane properties: Council trying to acquire them. |
| Refuse dump used by County Council at Newton Park - complaint. |
| Rain damage at Vicarsford Chapel. |
| Mr Keith, sanitary staff at Wormit, has given up his job. Large number of applicants. Send a Newport man to Wormit; employ John Begg, Seacraig Cottages, for Newport. |
| ?Motor dust cart? |
| Water trough in Boat Road. |
| Gritting: streets to include 'that street running from the foot of Derby House steps to Tayview Terrace' [i.e. Bank Street]. |
| March 1933. Death of William Clark, Burgh Surveyor for the past 18 years. William Kelly from Largs to be the new Burgh Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector. |
| 14 April 1933. Brave action of Mr Frank Huttenrauch, Mars Gardens, Douglas Tod & Miss Clare in rescue of 3 children from drowning at Woodhaven Pier. |
| Purchase of motor refuse wagon. Horse & cart still required for some parts. |
| Additional ground at Wormit dump. |
| Petition from William Berry for new streets at the west end of Kirk Road running approximately parallel and at right angles thereto (Miss Sturrock). |
| Difficulties for carts & lorries using the lane behind Crosshill Terrace. |
| Thomas Muir Son & Patton: closure of Wormit office, sometimes used by Council for the collection of rates. |
| Newport Hotel ground: Council to acquire only stables, coach house and hotel yard in the meantime. Cost of demolishing the stable buildings and levelling up the yard - £200 maximum. |
| J M Paterson, Fife House, Wormit - ?Council to purchase property? No. |
| Retiring: Fairweather, Peattie, Tudhope. |
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