CITY COUNCIL DECISIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 262, 4 November 1932, Page 8

CITY COUNCIL DECISIONS

A NEGLECTED GULLY. TAMAK! DRAINAGE WORK. COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS. The City Council met last evening, the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison presiding. Complaint was made by a property owner that the gully at the Grey Lynn end of Williamson Avenue was in a neglected state, and last year it was a breeding place for mosquitoes. The city engineer reported that the gully was used by owners of property adjoining as a tip. It was decided that the sanitary inspector should give the gully special attention, and that the tip should be kept in a sanitary condition. A letter - from the Auckland and Suburban Local Bodies' Labourers' Union, drawing attention to a proposed payment of relief rates on the Xamaki drainage works, was referred to the works committee, the Mayor stating that the information contained in the letter was incorrect. It was decided to again agree to the issue of combined train and Zoo tickets on Saturdays and Sundays, as from November 12, and through the school holidays. The sum of £26 5/ was voted to the executive committee of the allied building industries to assist its campaign of propaganda to stimulate the building trade. Permission was given for the erection of not more than six tents for camping purposes on an allotment fronting Tamaki Drive at Mission Bay. Sports Facilities. The secretary of the Auckland Football Association wrote thanking the council for reverting to the charge of 1/ per annum for the association's occupancy of a strip of land at Blandford Park. It was decided to request the Auckland] Transport Board to bring the tram tracks in Victoria Avenue to their proper level. The Tamaki Amateur Cycle Club is to be informed that the Port England Reserve cannot be used for cycle races, and the Ponsonby Croquet Club that the rental of the lawns in Victoria Park will be at the rate of £80 per annum until March 31, 1033, and thereafter until the end of the term on October 31, 1933, at the rate of £100.

The Council decided to increase its offer of £122 to £200, plus erection of necessary fencing, to Dr. Thomas as compensation for land and bush taken at Grafton Gully. The Council decided to support the Municipal Association in opposing legislation designed to prevent local bodies appointing their own sinking fund commissioners, other than the Public Trustee, when Government loans are not concerned. Reiort on Abattoir. Mr. R. Rugg, manager of the municipal abattoir, submited a comprehensive report on a visit he had paid to the abattoirs at Melbourne. Sydney and Adelaide. He made recommendations as to the policy and extension of the Auckland abattoir. There had been agitation, he said, by local bodies in the vicinity of the abattoir to have the saleyards removed on account of careless droving being a menace to traffic. He thought the council should take active measures to protect its interests. It might be advisable to call a conference with a view to legislation being promoted to finance the proposed stock route from the Waikato to Westfield. In order to consolidate the position of the abattoir the council should possess a controlling interest in the Westfield saleyards. If legislation were contemplated the abattoir district should be enlarged to embrace the whole area within a radius of SO miles, and to prevent other local bodies in the vicinity of Auckland from exercising their rights to set up abattoirs. Machinery was being provided for a duplication of the chill rooms.

Stanley Street Tennis Courts. Approval was given to a revised scheme for the leasing by the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association of additional land in connection with the Stanley Street courts. The association agreed to pay £100 for work done on chip court areas and to erect an approved new stand and pavilion oii the southern end of the property.

Formal resolutions were passed author; ising the council to raise the Orakei (Purewa Stri/am) Bridge loan of £12,000, covering the council's share in the new bridge, and a water supply redemption loan of £15,800. The engineer reported on discussions with representatives of the Tamaki Yacht Club regarding a proposal that the club should surrender its lease of Bastion Point as a clubhouse site and lease an area at the western end of Selwyn Domain, Mission Bay, now set aside for the hauling up of boats. It appeared, however, that no lease the council could give would entitle the club to erect a clubhouse on any part of the domain. The matter was referred to the parks committee. Street Demonstration Banned. Now by-laws in connection with the erection of and maintenance of signs and hoardings were adopted. An application for a permit to erect a cowshed on a property between Roslyn Avenue and Upland Koad, Remuera, was referred to the town planning committee. An application by the Rotorua Borough Council for permission to hold Maori processions and other demonstrations in the city to advertise Rotorua was rejected in view of the recent disturbances and the council's decision to ban street demonstrations.