WAITAKERE DRIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 226, 23 September 1936, Page 18

WAITAKERE DRIVE.

APPEAL FOR FINANCE. PAYMENTS BY LOCAL BODIES. A* further appeal to local bodies in tie Auckland, area who have 60 far declined to contribute to the cost of the proposed Waitakere Drive is to be made following a meeting of representatives of various local bodies held at the Town Hall yesterday. The deputy-Mayor, the Hon. B. Martin, M.L.C., presided. A sub-committee consisting of the Mayors of Mount Eden, Onehunga and Newmarket, Messrs. T. McNab, J. Pafk and S. Donaldson, was appointed to wait on the bodies which had not contributed and explain altered circumstances since the first request was made. A draft clause for special legislation for the raising of the mor.ey was presented at yesterday's meeting. It proyided that the City Council should undertake to pay to the Government £14,.500 4wo-n Cnre Government subsidy of 78,500 and that the local bodies which cou a not find their share at once should give debentures to the City Council for tPrm ?° UI Jt 8 ' " was stated that the turTs ifn 6 -Ademption of the debenaltho V, , fixed at ten years, although local bodies could, if thev ln twd y ear s or less. A suggestion was made that the £1000 be over the bodies which had alrc-ady agreed to contribute. It was explainthatTome f n th!f Sma i er . l CoUllcila . w °uld?not a<Tee to that, and that it would, not be fair to ask the City Council further to increase its contribution. Alreadv it committed to £8077. 7