WAITEMATA POWER BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 4 April 1925, Page 7

WAITEMATA POWER BOARD.

! MEETING AT GLEN EDEN.

The Waitemata Power Board held their official meeting last night (Friday) on the subject of the proposed loan of £200,000, and were given an attentive hearing. Mr. J. M. West, chairman of Glen Eden Town Board, occupied the chair. Tha chairman of the Waitemata Power Board, Mr. Hayden, Mr. Leighton, and Mr. Gauvain, the board's engineer, briefly addressed the meeting in the order named. At the conclusion of their addresses Mr. Greenslade, who constitutes the minority on the board, addressed the meeting in order to give the other side of the question as to j the loan proposals. A vote of confidence in the board, moved by Mr. Shepherd, was lost on a show of hands in favour of an amendment moved by Mr. Hayes, that: "This meeting disapproves of the policy of the Waitemata Power Board, and requests that they take steps to secure amalgamation with the Auckland Power -Board." In moving the amendment to the resolution Mr. Hayes said he did so because the chairman of the Waitemata 1 Power Board had at Henderson the night before definitely declined to give any guarantee as to the amount of money out of the loan that would be spent on reticulation of the Henderson and Glen Eden districts, by stating the allocations on the ballot papers, consequently it Avas quite within the ! realms of possibility that the whole of the loan might be spent by the present i board or their successors before the ; time arrived for the reticulation of the i i Henderson-Glen Eden district. I