BURGESSES MEET.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 14 June 1927, Page 3

BURGESSES MEET.

0 MOUNT PLEASANT ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of members of the Mf. Pleasant Burgesses' Association was held on Saturday evening. Mr W. B. "Webb presided over a good! attendance, and welcomed to the meeting Mr 0. A. Flavell, chairman of the Heathcote County Council, and Mr B. Kiley, representative for the riding.

The annual report of tho executive disclosed that the Association had obtained a financial membership of 43 in its initial year. Owing to the efforts of the executive, the postal authorities had instituted an afternoon as well as' a morning delivery of mail on the lower portion of the_ suburb, and had promised to consider in a few months' time extending tho morning delivery up the main Mount Pleasant road to a point near Bellevue terrace. Better telephone' facilities had been applied for, and, with the installation of the new automatic exchange now under construction midway between Mount Pleasant and Sumner, the desired. connexions should become available' to residents. The £2OOO loan for electricity extensions had , been carried, and twenty further street lights installed on Mount Pleasant road, Edenhill terrace, and at the toot of the hill on the Sumner road'.' The Association had requested the Council to remove certain lights from an unformed road and place them on the msin road to light it to Bellevue terrace". The school for Mount Pleasant hill applied for through the Association would probably be provided soon, She Board having advised that a plan and estimate for the building was being prepared by its architect! and that a grant had'been applied for from the Department to purchase an additional two acres adjoining the site given by the Mount Pleasant Syndicate. The report was adopted. Mr A. Q. Williams moved that the_ Association communicate with other bodies interested in the regulation of hill easements with a view to a joint remit asking for certain alterations being sent to tho County Conncil's Conference. This was seconded by Mr S. H. Thomas and carried. The secretary drew attention to the neces* sity for a comprehensive scheme of road improvement. The present roading was that in use when only tix or seven ■ houses existed in the district, and was becoming inadequate for the sixty.odd residences now in the suburb. Mr Flavell intimated that the Council would take a poll for a loan on receipt of a request from a reasonable number of ratepayers, and on the motion of Mr Thomas, it was decided to deol with the matter at a further meeting. It was also, resolved to -take steps to have the Btreets in the riding named, and to request the Councjl to allocate numbers to properties as identification was becoming increasingly difficult with the progress of building. Mr N. R. Webb was re-elected president for the ensuing year. Mr A. O. Williams vice-president, and Messrs W. de Ttuer and S, TJnwin members of the executive.