GREATER AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 17

GREATER AUCKLAND.

EASTERN HARBOUR SUBURBS

READY TO LINK UP. ( ITY COUNCIL AGREEABLE. The Eastern Harbour suburbs, which include the area controlled by the Tamaki Road Board, are ready to link up with (treat or Auckland, and the Auckland City Council decided on Thursday night that he was prepared to take them in. An amendment to refer the matter back to the Finance, and Legal Committee was defeated. The di>trict concerned has an area of 5700 acres, ami the population at the last census was o4'A\. According to an agreement made three years ago the Orakei garden suburb is to be amalgamated under the same scheme, which will bring in another OiK) acres. There are 30 miles of roads in the Eastern Harbour suburbs, and a considerable portion of the total mileage has been formed in permanent material.

The city engineer reported that the district would not he a rliliirult one from a reading standpoint, although parts of it, particularly that portion between Rehutera Road and Orakei, were fairly steep. The liability other than the loans already raised, totalling .tSo.TOO, was not worse than in any other district which had been amalgamated with the city. He did not regard the drainage of the district as a dillicult matter, and the area outside the Drainage Board's district could be dealt with by a separate scheme of drainage, discharging lietween Tamaki Head and Point England. The city treasurer reported that the capital value of the district was £1.(585,705, which he estimated would produce an annual revenue of .CIS.4SS.