COUNCIL NEWS IN BRIEF
HOUSING BLOCK FOR PENSIONERS
Congratulations to the City Council on the further step it had taken to meet the needs of elderly people were expressed in a letter from the Minister of Housing (Mr W. Sullivan), received by the council last evening. He said he was pleased that the Local Government Loans Board had sanctioned the council’s loan of £25,400 for 25 pensioners’ cottages in the Champion street block. Improvement at Harewood.—A strip west of No. 1 hangar at Harewood airport would sealed, the council decided, to give better access for passengers of South Island Airways, Ltd. Air Race.—The Canterbury International Air Race Council was congratulated by the council on the success of the London to Christchurch race in 1953, from which a profit of £575 resultedj . Power Supply for Kiwi.—The Council agreed to guarantee £l3O a year
for the supply of electric power to the Sign of the Kiwi by the Banks Peninsula Electric Power Board. The guarantee was given for five years. Compulsory Stop Signs.—-Com-pulsory stop signs will be erected at the corner of Jeffreys road and Idris road and the corner of Glandovey road and Idris road.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 18
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