A TRANSFERRED AREA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 225, 23 September 1925, Page 9

A TRANSFERRED AREA.

RATES AND FACILITIES. A difference of opinion has arisen between Mount Eden. Borough Council and Mount Roskill Road Board, with regard to the time when the area, in Boundary and Landscape Roads, shall be transferred from Mount Roskill to Mount Eden. The commission having fixed the new boundary between the two districts, Mount Roskill suggested that the area to be taken into Mount Eden should be taken over on April 1 next, the end of the financial year. This would facilitate the collection of rates, etc. Mount Eden Borough Council tacitly agreed to this, and tliat *Mount Roskill should collect all rates due up to March 31, next, but that the council should take over the immediate control of the area affected. When a deputation waited on the board recently, from Mount Eden, urging this suggestion as an amicable way of settling the business, Mr. E. H. Potter advanced as a reason for their request, that Mount Eden was proposing to spend a considerable sum of money on the roads in that district and also to put in the electric light. If the properties, under discussion, remained under the control of Mount Roskill until next April, this work would be hindered. On the other hand, Mount Roskill Road Board argued that if a property owner in that area wanted to subdivide his property and cut it up in sections, between now and next April, he would have legal right to do so according to the Mount Roskill by-law, so long as he observed them, and the board would be compelled to accept dedication. The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. R. F. Bollard), had notified the board that the alteration in the boundary between the- two local bodies concerned would take place on April 1 and would be gazetted accordingly. Last night the board's solicitor advised that the written request of Mount Eden for an immediate -transfer of tlie area under discussion, did not contain anything which should cause the board to alter its determination o% the question. The Mount Eden Borougu Council will be informed accordingly.