Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1927-28 (November 1927 - November 1928) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-27
| Election of Town Councillors: Ward 1: John Thomson Young, no poll. Ward 2: G D Wilson, 6 Albert Crescent, no poll. Ward 3: G Tudhope, no poll. |
| Council: Ward 1: William Forrest French, elected 1925; Alexander Henderson Smith, elected 1926; John Thomson Young, elected 1927, Junior Bailie. Ward 2: Charles McCulloch, elected 1925; George Scrymgeour, elected 1926; Garnet Douglas Wilson, elected 1927. Ward 3: James Barry Robb, elected 1923, Provost; William Ramsay, elected 1926, Senior Bailie; George Tudhope, elected 1927. |
| November 1927. Electricity Provisional Order: can't say when a supply will be given to Newport - difficulties over new Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, therefore Fife Electric Power Co. weren't making progress. |
| Old Pier: congestion at Ferry Pier - certain plans put to Ministry of Transport. |
| Telephone Row: ? LNER to provide light? |
| Old Pier referred to as Gas Pier. |
| Electricity: sooner or later Fife Electric Power will connect up with the Board's main transmission line (Dunfermline to Dundee). Progress was [emphasised] being made towards Newport. |
| January 1928. Old Pier: Berry offers for purchase: Old Pier & 134 poles (at Gas Lane and behind the Newport Hotel) at 5/- per pole x 20 years purchase: £670; Rental of houses £74-1/- x 15 years purchase £1110; total £1780. |
| Mr Berry's gardener occupies one house at Gas Lane. |
| Electricity: presently Ladybank area (January 1928), then Cupar (early 1928), no date yet for Newport. |
| Mr Cowan, 10 Hillcrest Road, Wormit [Hill Crescent]; D & J Thomson, factors for 7 & 8 Hillcrest Road; - wall repairs. |
| Bus licences: Johnston Bros., Newport & Tayport service. Other companies mentioned for St Andrews: Clow, Central Garage, Grant. |
| Resignation of Councillor McCulloch. Co-option of Charles William Buik, Braeknowe. |
| All ashpits now removed and replaced by ash bins except for 2 mansion houses in West Newport. |
| 15 new building warrants, 9 alterations. |
| Competition by road buses led to a reduction in train fares on Wednesdays and Saturdays for journeys between Newport and Tayport. |
| Hillcrest now referred to as Hill Crescent. |
| Problems over issue of bus licences by county and various burghs. |
| Suggestion to move financial year end earlier than 15th May - defeated by Convention of Royal Burghs. |
| Old Pier and land: general approval to purchase. |
| Muir Son & Patton to let the [old] tunnel at Wormit to Council as a store. |
| Wormit Electric Lighting Co: permission for underground cable at Bay Road for Mr E W Christie. |
| The Bungalow, Union Street: not a nice site - shrubs, rubbish, 5 cases of scarlet fever in the past year. Mr Mackay to be asked to clear it up. |
| Bus stances - All week: east side of Scott Street (for St Andrews buses); east side of Blyth Street (Cupar buses); War Memorial, west side of Tay Street (Tayport buses); east side of Boat Brae above Mrs Cunningham's (Wormit, Balmerino & Newburgh buses); north-west side of Newburgh Road, Wormit, from 20' west of Mount Stewart Road in a south-westerly direction (all buses starting from Wormit). |
| Bus stances - Monday to Friday: north-west side of Boat Road running east from Smithy Brae and the east side of Boat Brae above Mrs Cunningham's (for all operators, 1 bus at either stance). |
| Old Pier subjects: Scottish Board of Health want bigger plans before they could state if they qualify for grants. The basin of the harbour is not included in the area for sale. |
| Bus stances: numerous objections received against Scott Street, Blyth Street and Tayport Road stances - from occupiers and the bus operators. Magistrates have control over the bus timetables and operators. |
| Mount Stewart Road extension - unsatisfactory. |
| Several cases of overcrowding of houses - more Council houses required. |
| Altered scheme of bus stances: all operators to use Boat Road for 1 vehicle each on all 7 days of the week (for any operator entering Newport High Street), in addition to existing stances. |
| Newport Swimming Gala: 1 September 1928 - ? collection from spectators; Newport & District Pipe Band to play on braes; present prizes at Blyth Memorial fountain - agreed. |
| Bus stances - Agreed the following: Boat Road, north-west side, from opposite Smithy Brae (for operators via High Street, 1 bus each); east side of Scott Street (St Andrews buses); east side of Blyth Street (Cupar buses); War memorial (Tayport buses); Boat Brae (Wormit, Balmerino & Newburgh buses); Newburgh Road at Mount Stewart Road (all buses starting at Wormit). |
| Mission Hall: Berry couldn't reconstruct, therefore use as a mission hall must cease i.e. no longer a public building. |
| Retiring: French, Buik, Robb. Resignation of Bailie Ramsay as a Magistrate. |
| Mount Stewart Road extension: take over as it was, as a water bound road, with temporary footpaths. |
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