Report of the Lighting Committee recommending instruction be given to place 6 lamps in Macleay St

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Unique IDA-00442642SeriesReports of the Lighting Committee, 1857-1892DateBetween 19th August 1861 and 31st March 1862FormatVolume - Leather BoundDescriptionReport of the Lighting Committee recommending instruction be given to place 6 lamps in Macleay St and Wylde St. Appended: Memo from Chas H Woolcott, Town Clerk, with Council resolution to refer the petition of Want and others to the Committee; annotation by Edward Bell, City Engineer, reporting that 12 lamps at 80 yards distance would be needed to light Macleay St and Wylde St as far as Mr Want's house; annotation: matter stood over for 3 months; further report, 13 March 1862, by Bell giving the number of houses, 56, and the rates received p.a.; Petition by ratepayers and residents of Pott's Point and the north end of Macleay St, noting that there are no Corporation Lamps beyond the house belonging to Mrs Spark leaving the whole of Pott's Point and the rest of Macleay St without light: [signatories]: [p1] RJ Want; Jno F Hilly; Wm McQuade; AD Kellie; Sarah Wilshire; T Wingate, J.P.; Grace Dangar; WF Cape; Edwd Lee or See; John T Neale; James H Neale; Alexr Morris; Henry Marsh; Thos Holdsworth; St Gattenhof; John Jarvis; Lois Sattler; F Becker; Jas Williams; M Moore; Mary Sparke; Fanny Blackstone; Richard Johnson; Samuel Elyard; Step Greenhill; Edward Broadhurst; [p2] RA Joseph; Wm Bd Macpool for Wm Long; RM Donald; AW MacCulloch; A Little; Letter from Australian Gas Light Co per R Mansfield advising that the Company will lay an extension of the gas main to the end of Macleay St provided Council will take a due proportion of public lights; Letter from Australian Gas Light Co per R Mansfield advising that the main is about to be laid.LanguageEnglish (eng)Digitised recordNo




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Source system ID24/02/1862/12