LOCAL BODIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 267, 8 November 1923, Page 14

LOCAL BODIES.

. o jo ONE TREE HUX. }o O ° DRAINAGE LOAN CARRIED. ( g i lea ONEHUNGA ROADIXG SCHEME. o ■ I ( O The chairman of the One Tree Hill Road o •feoard (Mr. K. G. Clark) announced a-t last o night's meetlns of the board that the poll o in connection with the loan ol 11800 tor ' o drainage wort at Green Lane had been i^ tarried by 62 votes to 10. Although it HT .-■H-as some satisfaction to know that the ( O loan had been approved, it was depior- o •able that the ratepayers had shown such jo npathy in regard to the matter, only ( _ © voting, when the matter concerned ■->0i < o ratepayers. Those present at the meeting U were kessrs. R. G. Clrk (chairman! X lg Chapman, H. K. Clayton, C. L. Mclutosh, i^ J. Paterson, T. Rowe, and C. rurcha.se, with i« tin', engineer (JOx. Dawson) and the clerk ,O (Mr. Hogg). ... . ° In connection -with the Onehun£a rondinj; ( O scheme, n deputation rrom tlie Onehungj Horough Council waited on the board, when q It was stated t.hat a portion of the loan of q £73,000 recently authorised would be used Q to construct the boundary roads. The total _ cost of Onehunga's shaTe of the roadlng i~ Trould be about £54f12,-and a portion of the |~r ■work would be done in bitumen. As ,» th« boundaries were all denned as being O in the centre of the roadways concerned, )O the Onehunga Council requested the co- Jo operation of the board before the work was ( © commenced. o In the chairman of the board said ' o that the chief obstacle was one of flnanre, I _, and thet there was no possibility of co-oper- g atliig In the work without first getting the i Jr sanction of the ratepayers for another , ~ loan- After tsorne discussion, it was de- , O elded to ask the engineer to report upon ( O the matter of a definite roading programme O whicli -wonld be in harmony with the o I3orough Council's plan. Further complaint was made regarding < o the Epsom tranrway service, but Mr Clark — stated that as a result of representations CT recently made by the board, the service had CI improved considerably. I CJ A bacteriological analysis of the One c Tree Hill water supply by Dr. Gilmour O showed lie water to be absolutely pure, O and free from lime deposits. O Building permits for the month of Octo- ~ ber totalled £5J04. o A request for the board's co-operation in ' o the campaign for raising funds for the War Ci Memorial Museum was agreed to. 2 Referring to the failure of the recent (p poll, whicli asked the ratepayers to convert c One Tree Hill into a borough, Mr. Clark © said that a petition had been circulated O south of Campbell Road, asking that o another road board district be .formed. The o petition was returned to the senders by c the Department of Internal Affairs, stating (X that the signatures of a section of the com- I iT Tnunity only would not suffice, and that ~ before being considered, such a petition ," would" have to be signed by two-thirds of O the ratepayers. , "This petitl-n." common- O ted Mr. Clark, "has been prepared by a few O discontented people, and the ratepayers 1O would, be well advised to make sura they !Iα are not being imposed on." g