Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1951-52 (May 1951 - April 1952) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-50
| Elected: Ward 1 - Alexander S Reid. Ward 2: John Dunn. Ward 3: Thomas J Wishart. |
| Council: Ward 1: Richard Lowry West, elected 1949; Leonard Boath, elected 1950; Alexander Reid, elected 1951, senior bailie. Ward 2: J Douglas Lawson, elected 1945, Provost; Alexander S Lowson, elected 1950, junior bailie; John Dunn, elected 1951. Ward 3: R Fyfe Smith, elected 1949; John Whiteford, elected 1950; Thomas J Wishart, elected 1951. |
| Newport Quoiting Club: now out of existence. Council will use the trophy (inkstand) presented to the Club by Mr Berry, or donate it to another club in the burgh. |
| Erection of 2 posts on the Braes at James Street to mark the telephone cables. |
| Appointment of Charles McLaren as hallkeeper. |
| Pleasure boat licences. |
| Congestion at bus stances at Ferry Pier. |
| Resignation of D M Kilgour as postmaster. |
| Resignation of Mr Findlay as Council lamplighter after many years of service. |
| Burgh Surveyor to list unfeued uncultivated land. |
| August 1951. Air Ministry to derequisition Woodhaven Pier - Council could take over certain buildings on the ground. |
| September 1951. New Tay ferry boat now in service. |
| Balmore fete for funds for Blyth Hall kitchen. |
| Lighting control pillars: 1. Walnut Cottage (Miss Marshall); 2. Abercraig House. |
| Wormit Bay wall: erected about 1880 by Mr Wedderburn; it collapsed about 40 years ago and was repaired at Birkhill's expense. A right-of-way along this wall and along the braes to Balmerino. |
| Electric lighting to replace gas in clock at St Thomas' Church. |
| Formal extension of burgh boundaries begins. |
| 21 December 1951. Council oppose draft Dundee Harbour / Tay Ferries Provisional Order. |
| County Council's development plan for north-east Fife - contains maps of burgh & written statement. |
| January 1952. Death of Provost Lawson. Councillor Dunn elected Provost until May. Co-option of Alexander Dickie Forrest, Arnsheen, to fill the vacancy. |
| Tay Ferries Provisional Order is amended (a reference to Woodhaven), therefore no longer any objections. |
| Part of Wormit sea wall is built on Naughton Estate. Birkhill deny all liability. |
| Telephone box & post box put up at Craighead. |
| Mr Mitchell, gas manager, now with the National Gas Co., moved to Stornoway. |
| February 1952. Allocation of new Craighead houses. |
| Exemption from rates: Mission Hall, Kilnburn - exclusively for religious worship. |
| County draft plan: additional zones for housing - 1. behind Linden Avenue, 2. between the recreation park and the railway at Wormit, 3. behind Newton Park. Council doesn't think these should be housing areas. |
| Birkhill Estate doesn't want the Wormit farm buildings included inside the burgh boundaries. |
| Retiring: Forrest, West, Lowson, Whiteford. |
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