CITY AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1935, Page 11

CITY AFFAIRS.

DECISIONS OF COUNCIL.

AUCKLAND'S CAPITAL VALUE

The Auckland City Council met last evening, the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, presiding.

Fire Board Levy.—When a letter from the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board was read stating that the Valuor-Genen:l had advised that the capital vaiue of the rateable property in the city area for the purposes of the board's levy for the financial year 1935-36 was £48,810,204, the Mayor said there was a danger of the council being called upon to pay a disproportionate share of the amounts levied by the board. The question was referred to the finance committee for a report. Parnell Tennis. — The St. Stephen's Tennis Club requested the council to construct courts on a vacant section at Campbell's Point, near the end of Gladstone Road, opposite Parnell Park, the club undertaking to lease up to six courts. The request was referred to the parks committee. Fire Prevention. —A request from, the Minister of Internal Affairs that the council co-operate in "fire prevention week" from March 18 to 23 was referred to the works committee. Stormwater Drainage. — The Dilworth Trust Board wrote asking the council to take steps to prevent a repetition of the flooding which took place in lower Queen Street on February 15. In a report on the question the city engineer suggested that owners of basements should take precautions to see that holes made for electric cables, etc., were sealed, and thus prevent a recurrence of the trouble. Balloon Advertising.—An application for permission to advertise on a balloon attached to the top of a building was refused. The city engineer said it would be injudicious to permit the inauguration of such a form of advertising, for not only would the variegated appearance of such balloons from numerous buildings be not in harmony, but there would also be a tendency for the advertisements on a windy day to encroach beyond property boundaries. Sunday Play.—The Women's Christian Temperance Union wrote stating that at a recent meeting regret was unanimously expressed at the action of the council in allowing children's playing apparatus in parks to be used on Sundays.—Received.