AUCKLAND ITEMS.
• By Telegraph—Press* Association. Auckland, October 10.'TliO'City Council to-night decided'ta.r se6k' authority t'o.i borrow £50,000 as-.*-; first instalment towards- the cost of a drainage schome for the oity and suburbs. ■ : ■ '■ ■ , The uniinancial position of the Auckland Fire Board was animadverted upoii- ' at to-night's mooting of .the City Council. Tlio Board billed the Council for £750, boing tho first quarter's contributions duo by tho Council..lt was agreed to _pay , the £750.. Thore was l soino . stringent criticism of.the Act' aiid tho-' Government's methods -of business; Mr. C. J. Parr likened; the milddla< causcd by the Act to a comic opera. The City Council received a request :: .to-night from- this'iHin.'.J. A. Tolo,'K.C., solicitor for Tranitfay tftidn, I '' •' to suspend tho operatibh of. the "strap- 1 - hangers " by-law until December 1, pending his application to tho Supreme Court to test the validity of 1 the by- ; law. Tho Couneilj. however, : stood firm, and consented to' a requost from tho Tramways Committee to amend its car licenses to permit -of ,«tra passengers being carried. • -'.'''"i. :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 6
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172AUCKLAND ITEMS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 6
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