LOCAL BODIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 6

LOCAL BODIES.

OTfEHVNGA. A mootin!; of the Onehnnga Cluiuiber of I the Uorongh Chambers. Mr A. M.-CoH (pre.-ii- ! de.rrO occupied the 'hair. The I'hairmaa i reported thut he had arranged with Mr ! Uowles, of the Railway Department, to j meet a deputation ai Onehungu to sop whati j t-an be dune to pive the Onehunpa merj cbnirts a n't contractors. business at! j tlie railway station a neiv load out for I vehicular traffic from tlii- Kttation into j Queen Streel. near <\ip(ain SlrcPt. Mr ]A. A. t'reamer, as one of the •lepiKatVm I i oppointPii lo iDtorriew tin- Telegraph | i fnr au iiuprorpd tclrphonp wr-i ' vife betwrrn Ai:cklau<i anrt Onvhunga. ro|porte<l that llip dpputatiou had lieca in-1 i foraii>l that the iocal hnrean would be : ' a.holisliixl shortly, as the whole of the | telephones between the t-ity and Onehuuga f woTi]<l be phu - on Uie aulomatie system; I ■within the next months. ; i OTAHUHU. ] An adjonrned meefing of the Otahuhu i ! ißorwjgh Omndl was held on Monday I eveniug. The Council resolved that all ■ njQsmners of water be supplied .by meter. ' The Mayor gave notli-e ihat at tne next meetins of tie Council he would move that I rates amountfing to 8(1 in the £ be levied j lon the unimproved raJue, and that a sani- '■ I tary rate of £1 per house be 'levied on | i dwellings rpqtriring the services of -Che; ■ sanitary contrai-tor. The amended esUmate ; lof rates and expenditure was adopted. The j Works <"'ommjtjte>? recommended the im'provemeut of several mads, and siipsrested I that Oie Kncineer be ask<rt to tntrmit an i p.-jtiinate ot the cost of improvements, including thf construction of a footpath from j the end of the Great South Road irrrprove- ! morpt "works to Station Uoad aloug I ■Koad and Waimsi-v Strcer. TTie was asked for nn estimate of the cost <rf ctretins dowi, the hill in Avenne Road I filling In gullies, and -widen-lns the prvods (ar rwo poinrs narrw.d In the report. '