Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1924-25 (November 1924 - November 1925) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-24
| Election of Town Councillors: Ward 1: John Thomson Young, Ashbrook, no poll. Ward 2: Garnet Douglas Wilson, Northfield, 20 Kilnburn Place, no poll. Ward 3: William Ramsay, Ivybank, 271 votes. |
| Council: Ward 1: William Forrest French, elected 1922; Robert Davis, elected 1923, Junior Bailie; John Thomson Young, elected 1924. Ward 2: Charles William Buik, elected 1920, Provost; Alexander Macfarlane Anderson, elected 1923; Garnet Douglas Wilson, elected 1924, Senior Bailie. Ward 3: George Tudhope, elected 1922; James Barry Robb, elected 1923; William Ramsay, elected 1924. |
| Woodhaven footpath: complaint. |
| Crowding of trains: complaint. |
| Aerial wires: a number erected across streets in the burgh - ? a contravention of the Burgh Police Act 1892? |
| 2 December 1924. Fife Tramway Light & Power Co. Ltd.: this company was advertising its Order would be lodged with Council this week. |
| Housing subsidy loan: to David Blyth, house to be completed by 15 October 1925. |
| Fife Electricity Extension Order, 1924: how does it affect the burgh? |
| Numbering of Kilnburn. |
| Electricity: ? Any possibility of Dundee supplying the burgh with electricity? |
| Fife Electricity Extension Order: objections - 1. to lay mains for general supply only in those few streets would be insufficient for Newport Burgh - mains would be required in all arterial roads. 2. shorten the period, e.g. to 20 years, after which the local authority might acquire the undertakings. |
| Renumbering: Kilnburn Place & Terrace to be known as Kilnburn; 1 - 21 to be used for those presently in Kilnburn Place; Kilnburn House No. 22; numbering on north side commencing at No. 23, Mrs Whalley's, and proceeding upwards. |
| ? Telephone kiosk at Wormit? |
| Wormit recreation ground: Education Authority now had 10 year lease of ground east of Wormit school for playing field. Council to give £10 per annum for 5 years for public use of the field. |
| ? Widen the road at Duncraig? |
| Refuse dumps: at Canons and Flass Road - refuse dumped on piece of ground for use of the farmer - not satisfactory. |
| 15 new building warrants; 16 alterations warrants. |
| Housing subsidy applications: John Wallace, bootmaker, East Newport and John Stevenson, engineer, Terrace, West Newport - cottage-type dwellings at Newburgh Road - granted. |
| ? New dumps at West Newport (railway) and Wormit (Birkhill)? |
| Nameplate for Kilnburn should be placed on Misses Moir's premises. |
| Wormit dump: ground behind the old military camp at Wormit - suitable for next 50 years - road access into it - plan. |
| 21 July 1925. Tayside Electric Co: request from the secretary for permission for poles in footpaths for overhead electric wires. Council - no more overhead wires, put them underground. Some present overhead wires not in good order. Any put up by the company without permission to be taken down. |
| Place of public refreshment: John Keith junior, confectioner, Longcraig - always had been a place of refreshment and had a communicating door between shop and adjoining home. Registration granted. |
| 4 August 1925. Fife Electricity Extension Order: still under consideration. |
| Telephone posts at Bay Road - this was a private road and line of road had not been definitely fixed. |
| Overhead wires: Tayside Electric Co ask Council to reconsider. Council - yes, if you give us a map with proposed poles and wires, and if you get a report from a Board of Trade inspector as to whether or not the present overhead wires meet with BoT regulations, and remedy any defects if found. |
| Letter from Ministry of Transport - ? any progress in numbering the various highways in the burgh? |
| 1 September 1925. Wormit dump: agreement about use of land on Wormit Hill as dump. |
| Fife Electricity Extension Order: Promoters intend to go throughout the burgh. |
| 29 September 1925. Tay Road Bridge: consent of Council to erection by Harbour Engineer of poles at Woodhaven to give a line for the boring operations presently being undertaken. |
| Wormit overhead electric lines: map and letter; agreed to poles in Bay Road. |
| Kirk Road quarry: used as a dump previously, now full. |
| House subsidy: Mr Swan Curtis, Newburgh Road. |
| Retiring: French, Buik, Tudhope. |
| Wormit overhead electricity wires: Tayside Electric Co. now only waiting for Misses Wedderspoon's consent. For other extensions, no crossings of roads required, except for Stevenson / Wallace at Newburgh Road - put in underground cable across the main road. Council still want a report on the whole wiring system. |
| Smell at gully: Carseview, Tay Street - Mr H Betsworth. |
Previous available year Next available year