GLEN EDEN TOWN BOARD.

Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 19

GLEN EDEN TOWN BOARD.

Thq Glen Eden Town Board met on Alondfcy evening. Present: Messrs. jr. 31. ■West :; (chairman), Pugh, Martin, Errington and Hayes. ,3 .. .■- W£ari Hamlet. —A resident on the "Wiiarl Hamlet wrote! advocating more direct; vonneetmg of the.. district - with Glen Eilen By- certain road conne"c"tionsi. The writer was advised to the- maitemata Connty Council.'on the;, subjects .' Park Road.—Plans submitted.' .by., 3JiEBendall for the formation and metalline of Park Road on his subdivision" ! wei c approved. : \ Concrete Road.—As a result '< of th<;> representations made to Mr. Dempsey, the; chairman of the. Auckland City Council! Works Committee, the Auckland City Coun-> cil wrote advising that the concreting worki on the Great North -Road would be con-j ■tinned to the junction with the West Coast Koad before ceasing operations in New -jvnn. . . .• -a-H-,-Electric Lighting.—The Waitemata rower Board wrote advising the names of 'he roads to be "reticulated immediately 'as Great Xorth Road, Eden View Road, West Coas.t Road, Pleasant Road, Valley Road, .Evans Road, Scott's Koad, Brandon Road, Clayburn Road, Oates -Road, Woodlands Soad and Prospect Road. . • Post Office Site.—Thi Post and Telegraph Department advised that this matter is stilU.under consideration, but ,that efforts ■would be made to have it settled next month. The Department also advised that iheiequest for additional letter boxes had peenr granted, arid these (three in number) »aff .been erected in the district. ' 5 View Road.—The engineer reported that thejwork on this road still fell, short of iontract requirements, and that the contractor had not oarried out the work as i promised when, the board and- engineer Jet him on, the ground «ome time ago. resolved to forward, a copy of the engi- j seer's report on to the contractor. ! View Road Extension.; —With regard to': the proposal sometime ago before the board, Jlr. .Bawden, ■ solicitor,,' wrote withdrawing , his offer unless; accepted within - a certain' uate; and-the clerk was instructed to reply that as the board had heard nothing from; •*"V ■Denham. - the'" party-most concerned,"! nothing could be done further by them in , the meantime. £3000 Loan.—Copy of Gazette Notice authorising the loan of £2000 for the Glen ■fc-aen portion of the concrete road, recently, passed by the ratepayers, was received. \ Detour Roads.—Telegram and letter dispatched to Mr. McEnnis, district engineer to .the Main Highways Board, requesting early inspection of the proposed detour roads, sp that the board'might be entitled to -a subsidy for the maintenance of these "Wing the of the Great fcreat Xorth Road were confirmed. Uayburn Road.—The reply of the ooard to the deputation from this road, 10 the effect that there would not be any ,"° d » aTa ilable for further work there durhJ."' 1 P resen t financial year was I connrmed, and as the residents concerned had . Jtimated that they would be content for | "VvP re *nt with a few chains of footpath, j '«X *; p y. would complete by voluntary, ■ im? , thp board carried out the pre- • n*^ plou " hin - to a v?i(lt h of five furw" s the chairman of the "Works Commit- : dole ? anth M-i5Pd to have the ploughing boSi npl f a^ ts , havin " been made to the ' eputed t0 mm»i U f eS -X Tlle offpr of the Finance" Com■nitcee to the proprietors of the Metures price. C ° nfirmed With slisbt ' anleVdment in to ß^yLr^mc r- clerk ™ s instructed ■ the Glin Fi e Auckl , an(l Wt-v Council' that afv n the Work ' ? 8 another mishap t" a Sriclo a n T" 1, ! 1 ?- niKht had o^urred^ View comp&'of - - 2,'- '^C-X, '.-.■:,:, :>,■:■ ■..

" -Sign- Posts.—These were reported all ready for erection, and the' foreman was Instructed to have .them put up immediately. ™ -••;. Cemetery Reserve.—The clerk -was instructed to write the Auckland City Council asking when It would be convenient for their: Parks Committee to jneet the board on the-' portion- which -it- is .desirous ib y obtain as, a public reserve. ■ ■ ; """ • Septic-Tanks.—ln; view of the proposal .to-instil feeptlc -tank at the public hall . ths-clerk was instructed to write theTlealth Department-.for-their approval before anything farther was done in the matter. Bowling ''Club.—Permission, was given to this club to cross. West Coast: Road with the .water pipe to the greens, providing the work was carried, out to the Satisfaction of the foreman of the board, and that the club -paid all expenses 'incurred^'•by the board therewith. jiVith:regard: to the : suggestion that a water supply.to the public hall be connected' np with ; this pipe, consideration was-deferred-pending , some definite information as to. the cost to the board.- '....• . . Cross Roads.—Two members of.the board and. the clerk were appointed .to interview a local landowner to sec if some definite (arrangement. to the long-standing question . nf linking up £vaq's Road with a proposed i-oad throneh - his -property, and. also with l.eaminton Road, could be arrived at, thus nrovidlng a through route from West Coast Hoad and Pleasant Road in to the centre oi" the township via Evan's Road.