WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 61, 12 March 1915, Page 6

WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL

The report of the engineer was considered at a meeting of the Wai tenia ta County Council this afternoon. The report states' thsit there is 'a prospect of a Stnte sawmill beiuir erected at Helensville on tbe site of Coulthard's Mill. "Tbe State has acquired an option on all the surrounding land." Kays the report.' "and they now wish to get an option over-the county section," Proposed Road at Brooklyn.—An old Irallock road runs along the bank of tbe Nibotupu Stream, from the Brooklyn bridge to tbe People's Park, and tbe Auckland City Council contemplates purchasing the freehold of a strip of land, one chain wide, to include tbe bullock truck road. "Past experience has ebown," says the report, "thnt It Is not In the beet Interests of the district for the City Council to hold roads in this way, and I bare suggested tliut it wonld be far better for ail concerned to make the road a public road. The City Council is prepared to dv this, provided (lie County Council undertakes to give the City Council the right to have n tramway for seven years, with a promise of renewal, for a further seven years. This road will be a great advantage to tbe county, and I would recommend that the road be proclaimed a public road, upon the City Council supplying the necessary plans, and that the promise re the tramway be given." Rewlti Bridge—The decking on this bridge was now about done, and the engineer recommended that the construction of the new bridge in concrete be undertaken at an early date.