Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
1952-53 (May 1952 - April 1953) Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-51
| Election: Ward 1 - Richard L West, 570 votes; William Paterson, 1 Craighead Road, 121 votes; West elected. Ward 2: Alexander S Lowson, Alexander D Forrest, no contest. Ward 3: John Whiteford, 414 votes; Arthur Fearn, 26 Craighead Road, 103 votes; Whiteford elected. |
| Council: Ward 1: Leonard Boath, elected 1950; Alexander S Reid, elected 1951; Richard Lowry West, elected 1952. Ward 2: John Dunn, elected 1951, Provost; Alexander S Lowson, elected 1952, senior bailie; Alexander D Forrest, elected 1952. Ward 3: R Fyfe Smith, elected 1949; Thomas J Wishart, elected 1951; John Whiteford, elected 1952, junior bailie. |
| Pleasure boat licence: James H Maxwell, Harbour Cottage, Tayport 'Tay Queen'. |
| ? Forming of Woodbine Terrace: householders had recently formed a footpath at the rear - therefore deferred. |
| Guy ropes to be fitted to the Blyth Hall flagpole. |
| Other pleasure boat licences. |
| Difficulties of using a horse-drawn snow plough for footpaths - get an 'Allen'. |
| Names of streets at second Craighead scheme: Elizabeth Crescent and Northfield Road. |
| Extension of burgh to Newton Park: street lighting - the wooden poles carrying the overhead electric wires are to be used as lighting standards. |
| Other lamp-posts to be green with aluminium top. |
| August 1952. Purchase of Allen motor scythe & snow-plough attachment - £88-8/-. |
| Wormit Bay sea wall: Wedderburn doesn't admit responsibility or liability, nor does he see the Council's right to ask for repairs, but he will patch it up without prejudicing his future position. |
| Extension of burgh to Newton Park: interlocutor received August 1952 (enquiry held at Cupar 16 July). |
| Lamp put up in Scotswood Crescent on the existing overhead pole. |
| Mr Grierson, Claremont, Wormit: permission to lay up yachts on the ramp at Woodhaven Pier during the winter - 5/- per month per boat. |
| George Pattie using, and has for some time been using, part of the Boy Scouts premises for garaging, repair & maintenance of motor vehicles in contradiction of terms of feu of 26 February 1932. Council to require them to remove by 31 January 1953. |
| Coronation: Fife Education Committee to give a gift not exceeding value of 2/- to each school child (having previously declined to give any gift). Blyth Hall to be available for television viewing if required. |
| December 1952. Allocation of Craighead second scheme houses. |
| Remand home: Kinbrae was too expensive to reconstruct. What about St Fort House? (Fife CC's architect). |
| Wormit Tennis Club reformed and takes over the existing courts. |
| Coronation: sports for schoolchildren, organised by the teachers; television display in Blyth Hall; fancy dress parade from Newton Park through the burgh; tree planting - Girl Guides; church service. |
| Sanitary condition of Railway Cottages (1952/3 valuation roll numbers 1479 - 1490): all unfit for human habitation and not capable of being economically improved. Demolition Order to be moved. |
| Coronation: Newport Council to give tins of Cadbury's chocolates to school & pre-school children, also testaments to those at Miss Davidson's school; bus trip for Old Folks; 2 floodlights. |
| ? Post box in Bay Road, west of bridge? Strong winds often prevent residenters from getting to the post office. |
| House at the Thistle Foundation to be named after the Burgh of Newport, Fife. |
| Difficulty of getting testaments for Miss Davidson's scholars. |
| Retiring: Boath, Lowson, Smith. |
| Air raid warning siren to be mounted on Burgh Chambers. |
| March 1953. Railway Cottages: demolition order. |
| Woodhaven Pier: Pattie isn't conducting a business, merely a hobby (although his workshop may have been established for 20 years). Scouts are in process of giving him a title, in breach of an agreement to the Council by Mr Cram & Dr Inglis previously. Move for interim interdict. |
| Fountain to be erected at Tom Duncan's site. |
| Lease of the Air-Sea Rescue hut at Woodhaven by RAF Leuchars Canoe Club - rent £1. |
| Tom Duncan site: name to be changed. |
| Qualifying exam passes at Newport School are unsatisfactory - consideration by Director of Education. |
| Woodhaven: nuisance could probably be established, therefore go for irritancy of the feu. Final approach to Mr Cram. |
| Resignation at the election of Councillor Boath. |
| Mr Cram set his terms for the final meeting - refused by Council. Therefore go for irritancy of the feu and removal by all parties, feu to be null & void. |
| Hose allocation: include W Jarvis, 12 Railway Cottages - to Craighead. |
| Medical Officer of Health to inspect 2 house at The Terrace (Olsen & Arthur). |
| Burgh Surveyor to report on gap sites. |
| April 1953. Resignation of Frank H Morrison as Town Clerk (failing health) from 15 July 1953. |
| Water could not be provided at the level of the public park for toilets. |
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