NORTH LINWOOD'S REQUIREMENTS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12545, 14 July 1906, Page 9

NORTH LINWOOD'S REQUIREMENTS.

A mooting i ♦• ' was held last evening in tl , * , "•nrqv.co erected on the corner of Worcester and Norwich • streets, <o consider the proposal to xaLse a special kan, of £5800 tor tho cone-truc-tion of certain works in Xonh L-innvcod. It iv,i« proposed to allocate' the amount as follows: —K?rbing and channeling ■and arjphaltit)<; fectr/ay.* 4fc Gin wide, sill streets i.vitiiin R.S. 326 bech isidce, boundary roads cue side, £1261; constructing a drain from the lowest point in Gloucester street- to the river at rxaillington Bridge, £1155; interest for first yca-r, expen-cs of robing: lomi fivA contingcneifG, £331. Mr J. F. Caircra presided. Tho Chainmn staled the objects of tho mooting, and Mr Nntt moved: — '"That this meeting of ratepayers of North Linwood, of t-lio Hcathcoic Rrnd District, requests the ch-ninran of tho Uentlicote- Haiti Eoai-J to take a poll of.the irat-? payers of North Linwood on tli-a propcß-al to raise a loan of £5300, as advr>rtis.-d." ! The motion was (seconded by Mr Ar-rou-^irith. Jlr Demon said thet tho rrfr/lont 5 ; of Xcrth Linwcod had boon tronblrd on account of drainage, ond ho thoi'.eiht tho fichomo was one which erei-j-body in th~ distTirt would snpi>crt. T!'o motion w;:s put and carried. The Chairman stated that it had bren siijTCostcd to him that a li.".Il slionW be" built in North Linwocd in which meetings could bo held, .md many residents were of opinion that n school should be provided in thedistrict. Mr Dcnton said thit n rojrmittec nppcintod <:-irht or nino niCTitJis ago. lh-wl obtained 2-54 namer, of children, under the ago of twelve, who would bo likely to n-ttend a, echeo! if formctl. The".Education Board, however, had declined to establish a»schcol for tho district, owing to its being within two miles of a public school. Ho thought, however, that if a committeewore°appointed from the present meet- : inp something would be done in tho way of providing a bcJmjol. Another gentleman mentioned that a similar committee had been formed to canvass tho district nertli cf tho Dallingt-cn bridge. It was decided to ask both committees to amalgamate and sco what could ba done in the matter.