ONEHUNGA'S PROGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 231, 28 September 1915, Page 11

ONEHUNGA'S PROGRESS.

BIG EitENT - SCH EM E.

OncJtunpa Borough Council totUt<d a forward movement last night, JJfcn it wae decided to take the necesJgiy steps to provide filters for the jpfatr relay ttie mam street from tho BoTsl'Oak to tlie «!iarf. and to endoec CeddU' Bat>in. Far soaif wwfca patft tho Council has eonsUerin™ those new worts in p_unitto<>. .in.i a report was presented j^t.-»i?' lt recommending the Council to t»~put Imm in band at once. It U jjt&nated that a loan r>f £34,650 ■will to cover the i ost of the ~ the mmn-y to be allocated jf fnllovfw : — K<»lavi ng ih* main street god covering the same with bituminous #ik 4 taar.i-iam. £S.(««) ; other streota. (fjJSXV , : Oeiidui" Basin. £.1,0<)0; two De flor alter-. £.">.iv«i; auxiliary wntor Torlcf. raptor roel. etc., £3,650; total. gStjftn. A of the ratepayers will to bo Taken to sanction the loan. 3f thi* is smrniod the Council will prottfi with t!ie workß at once, 'fn discuss'"? the report last the Jfayor iMr I. Rowpi explained the propogab in <V:ail. He tuiJ. that with jtgird to the main strin-t. it mv profised to csruiltf the roajl u> a dopth (ji nine Inch's at the tr«m rails ami eigJi: indu* ut t!ie channeLt. A Counda(ioa fire inches in tiiicknesn wruiKl H<» o»de of epanln. nr old ni<>t.il »hen nuitjsle, eovefri anth four ini-hea of broken BfUl. , The bituen would then be into the surface u:uler ;.ressur>it i given temperature, which driven the fp»rafio"n "a .listauce ~< from 2) inches J inoh«i m the road Mirta.v, filling tD. the interetiree an.l niakin; a thor«eshh- watexproof *eal. This would (ompletery retoove ;he dust, nuisance. jS« other primap-il rtre»-U could l>e sat int" a permanent sta.te for £13.0n<i. tjsetfier with the savicf; that would annually in the upkeep of &r- main street, amounting to about--030.

A new roa<! would be m,i<le aerose t!ie eooth of B,isin from the Tramjay Co.'s tea kiosk at the lower end o; Quomi Street across to the Old Wharf Sold. Provision hao been niado for fill-jig-and emptying t!w basin by placing two eluice valves in Uie road. A pood itfX of traffic would naturally pass licnj the r.f.v thoroughfare. especially 6om tfa* , woft sid.» of Onehunjja to th<> saa-i. til* , xater pumrxvl into tiif xefrroix :ir«t pa«-s through tbp tfo new filter, which wouM bo installed it lit pumpniiT station. Jlr Ro«o ob-■α-rrd that thr (.'ouncil harf a^T* , * , '! t«i »appry tiirpp to the requireera is of the Public Health Department. 'AH parti«i» int<TPet<vl in the public lealth were agreed that with this proTjskm Uie present water supply at OneIptga would be quit<* satisfacton - . The mxiliary supply mute laet jear and the new motor reel and fire Iri'ide appliances were paid for at the tine out of an overdraft- The balajico c{ j£3,fl.V was required to pay off the werdraft and othor incidontal expentos. li special rate would b<» a» Mtority for the loan. But he would jbiat out that the Council ■would not terrow all th-r money at once, but spread ■ J|<jT?r a nuaibeT of years, »•■> th.i; thvtJKiil rat*- coHccteJ each year would tg what *n« require 1 ti> cover interest <t2i sinking fund on the amount bortmni that ypar. Jben. lie ratepayers would not be asked to pay any tfttial zxte on, the loan of £3,000 for I»ster alters, an the profit* from the »l!e of water would do that. Neither did Uμ Council propose to collect the ijxeial rite for Uie loan of £3.t>40. }£f H. 3. -Davie* favoured the adoption of the eoTiiTnittfe'i recommendation. e.\ffpt tor the loan o< to.ooo for Basui. Thcr must remember that the cost of maintenance of the basin would l>e KKBhleranlr. aJ Well as the co*t of eoMtructi"n.

Mr W \\ . Warnock thought the whole «cheme »iiou!d jo to the ratepayers, *!>o irouiJ be gAftl to vote on each jaw. They aj:T<-e to some of the prop<*3!s ami rfjTt othrrs. lir E. V Sutherland ayTeed with the report. The babin rould be u.»ed for batiw. -which, he said, would ll« & boon to the community. All the Bwmbera agreed that the srheme elvooid be placed before the raUrfeyers at a pabtic meeting before taking a poll. The committee* reconHnend&tion wae oiopted. 30a it wa*> detiJed to procr*d tb"»ire efT.-ct to thr proposals at once. itr H. J. Daviea moved, and it was ijree-l. tbat the Kinanc Committee, inquire aad report on thr question of raising the icstT before the public meeting m held.