CITY COUNCIL

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 233, 2 October 1925, Page 9

CITY COUNCIL

sundax band concerts,

The fortnishtly mepting of the Auckland City Council was held last err'nine, the Mayor. Mr. Geo. Baildon. presiding. Th** following were alFt> prpsent :—Miss Melville. Messrs Warnc-k. Paterson. Brownlee. Coyle. Deinpeey. Entrii-an. Eady. Blood worth. C. F. BennPtr. Our:. r_elan. Brinsden. Allum. Hardily. Knight. Thompson. Donald and Robertson.

A letter was recpived from the Fort Auckland Band asking permission to play a series of concprt* in Albert Park on .""nndar afternoons or evenings, a request was also made to ip allowed to t«k» up a colievt'Gn at the gnrr-s in Ik-it of in thp Vli inlty of -he grandstand. It wag asked that consideration be given to matter <>f remit ting tap oharcrp of 12 (5 n"w made. Tdp were referred to the larks Committee.

(iaruage collection was a matter hroncht np by a lptter received from the National Council of Women in New 7-pnlnnd. Reporting on this the city puziaecr stated that he hopod to replace the horso-.lrawn carts with motor operated vehi'ie-v In the meantime, however, inon> permanent covers will be fitted to carts already engaged in the work.

WEST COAST P.OAD. The Glen Eden Town Board nsfced The council's assistance ia the reconstruction of West Coast r.-.ad. inc]-jdin= twn bridges. within the boundaries of the board's district. It was pointed ont that the mad wn* the most direct route between Auckland and tVost Const districts and that a certain amount of dam.-ise w.-is i)ua» throueh leak J mains. Another point was that the treat North Koad. toward She construction of whi< li ihe council is contributins. is of practirall? no benefit to (Jl<>n Eden and that traffic fo the cemetery. which pars no rates is considerable. It was de-ided 10 have the Work* Committee bring down a report for next meeting. SKWEnP BREAKING *"»">wx. A nine-in'h sewer in the (rally Let ween Tafeirai Street and Brisbton Road has 'oUapsed in five places. ihe whole sewer is jDOft in lennth and the city engineer reported that it should l.c entirely reiaid at a '-"ST of approximately £_m. I n viow of ihe unsatisfactory condition that its collapse entails he was authorised to po ahead with the work ar once. It has also t.een found ne'-essary tn lay a _f.rrer -.if vnryinc =ises. approximately in leneth in onier to provide drainage facilities for properties on the e-inth western side of Garnet "load. The estimated cost of this parti ular work is i*->>"(). Rci'ardine the collapse and relaying of the Cleveland Bond sewer it has been f.-innd that certain portions of hrancn -sewers have become defecrivp nnd :ire lenitine badly. At a■• ost of "-iL'O this work will he attend*"! to nt the wuae time as that at Cleveland Road.