NEWMARKET LOAN PROPOSALS

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 12

NEWMARKET LOAN PROPOSALS

CONCRETE ROADING SCHEME. ] i . I SUM OF £26,500 IJTVOLVED. j 0.,. ■ v ! SIDE STREETS IX BITfMEX. Broadway and the pnrt of the ManuItau R.-md which falls within the limits of ibe tiorouph of Newmarket now form the only break in the concrete rt,ad that begins at the. top of the Parnell Rise. The Cily Council Ims completed its concrete Toading scheme to the Newmarket boundary on the northern side, and has carried it on from the southern boundary. It is the desire of the Newmarket Borough Council now to link up the two sections, and complete the permanent thoroughfare so far as their borough is concerned. Proposals to this'pffect were embodied in a scheme brought forward at a special meeting of the Newmarket Borough Council last evening. Mr. S. Donaldson prosided, and there were present Councillors A. Kent. T. J. Watts, F. J. O'Mearn. G. E. Smerdon. N. Kelleway, I "' W.-T , . Sawbridge, and P. S. Boone. The j proposals provide for the paving in concrete of Broadway, the unfinished portion of Manukau Road, Khyber Pass, Vark Road. Claremont Street, King Street and Station Street; the paving , 3 in bitnmen of George Street, Huntly, j .Avenue and Arthur Street: and an alteration to the levels of Maungawhau Road, j These proposals the .Council emphasises, are to be carried into effcett without any increase of the rates and af approved by the ratepayers will enable the Council to construct "two-fifths _of the total road mileage in concrete and £he remaining three-fifths in bitumen. It is estimated that the work will involve an expenditure of £26,500. In moving the adoption. of ~the proposals contained in the report, the chairman said that it. would be necessary to take measures to submit them to the ratepayers at an early date. Councillor fwiwbrldge, in- seconding the motion, said that he was satisfied that the money was available, and the scheme was well worthy of the support of the ratepayers. «• * ■ ■'. Councillor. Kent thought it was their duty as a progressive council to .put the scheme to the'ratepayers and give them the opportunity of accepting or rejecting it,' If they wanted to retain their individuality as a borough, he said, they wo*jM nave to keep up to the standard that had been set them. There was no question of the progress that had taken place during.the past ten years; and it ■was the big increase in the. commercial interests that had enabled the borough to keep iofra its-rates. Since 1914 the valuation had increased liy £20,000. and •wM. now touching j=60.000. V x :Th4 other councillors' also spoke in 'support 6£the scheme, and when put to i the.vote it -was carried unanimously. It ■was decided- also to submit a smaller proposal: to-the-ratepayers at the same time as the reading scheme, providing mainly'for the raising of £2000 to complete, the munjeipar. building. , . ~—