DRAINAGE LOAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 9

DRAINAGE LOAN.

PROPOSAL CARRIED. TWELVE PER CENT VOTE. DECISIVE MAJORITY IX FAVOUR. The poll held yesterday to authorise the raising of a loan of f115,000 for drainage purposes did not excite a great deal of interest and only a small proportion of the ratepayers cast their votes. Those who did vote gave the scheme an overwhelming- majority. The figures were:— For the Proposal 2246 Against 972 Majority for 1274 An additional 74 informal votes made the total of voters 3292, or 12 per cent of the 26,599 on the revised roll. The chief work now authorised is in the Avondale district where /ewerage works are estimated to cost £80,000. A further £29,000 will be spent in reconstructing a number of old sewers in the city area and in carrying out other work*;, in Remucra and Grey Lynn and in the vicinitv of ewruarket and Mount Eden. The first return to come in. that from Welch's farmhouse, Tamaki. had a majoritv of 10 against the scheme, but the only other booth to register an adverse vote was at the Green Lane Fire Station, where the figures were 22 for and 27 against. Avondale, which will benefit materially from the loan, recorded a big majority for the proposal, the figures from the Town Hall booth reading 104 for and 13 against. The last loan poll to be taken in the city was on September 19, 1925, when

the scheme was to raise £7500 for a bath filtration plant, and £22,500 for baths at Point Chevalier. At that poll, too, the voting was small. Less than 19 per cent exercised their privilege, and both proposals were rejected, the former by a narrow and the latter by a very v?ule majority-