PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 94, 22 April 1926, Page 18

PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS.

COUNCIL'S "VTEETIS-J. (From Our Own CorrespbM.fe.t:;)'. PUKEKOHEj *U_B_a^; The Piiikekohe Borough Council' met o* Monday-evening, Mr. John Routly presidl_i_K The* matter of forming and>metalling. > Kaye's"Roaa' before the winter'was refe'rrett' .to-the Wori-s-Coanmltteo. j ;A by-law Was", passed. .gov<?rain_r, nebrol> ibowsers erected* o_r Icerb' siaos: \'- fee of' •£lO 10/-per a-nrfhrft' i<r-ttf __• drained' for eircTi" ~.-.. ~;.'. The Auckland.City Council forwarded a ctfeqiie? for" _393 ; 3/»i beihg the! cr/uncil-s share of. heavy traffic licenco foes for- mt • period' ended Becemtier'3V. ' The OPrime Minister advised that he couM - not accede to the request to reduce the (,f reijrht oir metiil for local' Wodies: With regard to the Asiatic influx, as it. ■concerned; PiikeK'o.ie,. w ajrreed to' ask the Prime Minister if the Imperial and

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Governments l A ad , n ?- ade / arrangements at one Imperial i ?^,S^ nc^i. r ?? ar(lin S exelu'Blbn' of Asl««cS; ana wliether such an arftmgemerit, ez g&&P aii ftw'-as New Zealand- was" corieefcnedi- It was-pointed out that Exclusion' restrictions' were in vogue in Canada arid ; Australia. n£ lS£ ter \ , was ' recejved from the- Heaa'tb Department embodying a petition' firdta the J nd .lE. : - clt,J * i ? I «- ot Xew Zealand' aslfiri„ if facilities could: be granted for flic- cremation of the dead Indians at Pivlre-iohe .« reply is- tsoS 'Sf. %ent to the effect fliut thet request could he complied wlthV as" » M, -ff ß u- i t aM a cre-matorium at Wai.ni_____._-; ,r\? .?. a sUort from rukekohe. i ihe Wockfl-.Committer Becoimneiided- fcllat , estimates be prepared foil the, recotistruc-' ittow of ilaxomm- Boad froiit' Hiarius- Street l?i tue racecoifrsiv oovneif;. Qiiieen Sfciieef. ftonv iii- ng Sl J? e^ ro Kitchener Road, and Ward ! Street fVom- Quee* StmSfm Wel-mvgTo* tD Ye hitnmen .sealed - : also tarseallng AVn-rtl Street firoiri Wellirigbii Streetto the intersection with the riiiii-Pukel.olHi I.oad. The recommendations n-ort adopted , and steps are to be taken to .raise the additional I<> per cent on the roads allocation ■;of the : public services l'orfu. toßethei' witli, lf-tt_ £3000, Ktillto.be Msedv iuaKin?,. mately £5000 available for tlfrr worl;. The following recommendations we're also

adopted That Paerjata Road, frbm the end of'the tar-sealing" near the Catholic Church ; to- tltfie? coifn_r" ot Kaye'ir 'Rotf*;. that tHtf ! porU'lto* ot Eft-li; Street,, .274'- EiSstf StreW, fiftntf iShWOverhea* traffic ftriU-jb to"> t-otaaUt Ji-venue;- 6e all fa«--sealecT Befinfe the wetf w.ttatbeir sets in. .& numberf of footpaths is ! aflsb' to Bjf t'ar-seaWdV while tjh'e " work •of recbiistjsttetri'ngj Carl tons Road, tit; a- Cost of about? .35ft.. m also toVBS undertaken: The questTdn' olf estendiiiS Edinburgh Street noi-tli' t& connecp with fflßa , I'aerat* Road, wis defe'MfetT pending: a replj*' from the'petitioners a». fcb. the amount (Jffisjr would ciontrlbute towards the> cost off Citework, etftinitfted at £880^. It Sirs 1 i'esolved tH>> ask I_i_' owl-el's- of heavy motor vehicles' domiciled in Pnke--kolie" to instTber" tlieif" d'rl'v'eTs' fo ke_rt off 'scorift roads' pendi'jig the gazetting or the* Iclassiflbatlbn- of. Hie' ; Bbrbug-n- rossds. . The Works Co'umiittt'e was asked: to report on- the cleaning- oft the reservoirs- at Roose's Reserve, also as to the advisability •of ret>nl»ug a' leafc v The mtftfcT of considei-ihg the- .TdVisa'biHtr lot erecting abattoirs .at Pukekohe was 'referred 1 to the Works Committee.