Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1949-50 (May 1949 - May 1950) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-48
| Elected: Ward 1 - Alexander Reid, Brackenbrae, 5 Tayview Terrace; Richard L West, Craighead, Tay Street. Ward 2: John Dunn, Rowanbank, Newburgh Road. Ward 3: Ralph Fyfe Smith, Laurel Mount, Birkhill Avenue. |
| Council: Ward 1: Leonard Boath, elected 1947; Alexander Reid, elected 1949; Richard Lowry West, elected 1949, senior bailie. Ward 2: J Douglas Lawson, elected 1945; William Smith, elected 1947; John Dunn, elected 1949. Ward 3: J D M Ross, elected 1945, Provost; Thomas J Wishart, elected 1947; R Fyfe Smith, elected 1949, junior bailie. |
| W R Scott has accepted the post of Burgh Prosecutor. |
| Ferries: reduction to 1 vessel had resulted in no compensatory payments to season ticket holders by Harbour Trustees. |
| Closing order, unfit and not capable of being rendered fit at reasonable cost: 1948/49 valuation roll no. 1034, owner Elizabeth Honeyman, Cremona Villa, a dwelling house at Harris Buildings, occupier William Kay, annual rental £11-8-0. |
| Pleasure boat licences: S P Livie, Dundee; R Robertson, Broughty Ferry. |
| Ground at Woodhaven: Admiral Lambe wishes the Council to get the ground it wants. £150 for the ground plus £130 for superiority of the ground on which the scouts shed is built. Messrs. Hamilton Bros., Buckie, wished to lease the pier for 5 years - launching targets required by Air Ministry for practice purposes. |
| Cricket pitch set up at the park (Michael Napper, secretary, Tayside Cricket Club). |
| To call out the fire brigade, dial 0 and ask for the fire brigade. Convey this information to the public. |
| Poor condition of Woodhaven football pitch. |
| Examine costs of electric street lighting. |
| Railway Cottages, Wormit: proper sanitation and prevention of dampness required. |
| Electric lighting: 6 lamps to be put at Craighead Road / Crescent. |
| Mr Robbie, architect, to prepare layout plan for ground east of Craighead Crescent. |
| Wormit Tennis Club: defunct for some time. Can't contact the old officials. |
| Proper footpath at Kirk Road: from Braeside to Forgan Street - Council to do the work at proprietors' expense. |
| Ground at Woodhaven: go ahead with purchase from Fishers Cottage to the entrance to the road at Woodhaven excluding Mr Rankine's house, garden & workshop and Fisher Cottage, but including superiority of Scout shed and Rock House. Subject to lease by Hamilton Bros. - use of pier to launch gunnery targets. Purchase to be made 'for recreational purposes under the Public Parks Act'; includes the foreshore. |
| Kirk Road footpath: proprietors not in favour, therefore take no action. |
| Refuse dump at Crosshill Terrace: rats - complaint from H H Geddes, Dunvegan, Crosshill Terrace. |
| Kay's house at Harris Buildings: to be used as a store. |
| Resignation of Councillor William A Smith - ill health. Co-option of Alexander Lowson, Rhufaada. |
| January 1950. Tenancies of housing at Craighead. |
| Cuthberts Brae: Mrs Glass, Ivybank - footpath opposite her property to be concreted over then taken over by Council. |
| Demolition of Craighead farmhouse: Mr Berry to get certain fittings. |
| Library: the small collection in Newport School is quite unsuitable for a place of Newport's size. Refer to Librarian. Take over an ante-room in the Blyth Hall. |
| Railway Cottages, Wormit: brick-built walls, directly into the soil. Houses at present are 1 room & kitchen. Proposed knocking down the intermediate walls to convert into 3 rooms & kitchen. |
| War Memorial, Newport: Mills & Shepherd, architects, Dundee to do work to add the World War 2 victims' names - £500. |
| Retiring: Boath, Ross, Lowson (Ross not seeking re-election). |
| 2 gas lamps at East Queen Street to be converted to electricity. |
| Ground at Causewayhead presently used as allotments would be required in November 1950 for building, also ground occupied by Mr Steven, Northfield. |
| Pleasure boat licence: James H Maxwell, Tayport; S P Livie 'The Lass o' Gowrie'. |
| Path from west end of Linden Avenue to the park in very poor condition - repairs put in order. |
| Modern drinking fountain to replace the broken older one under the canopy in Tay Street. |
| Gas statistics. |
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