CIVIC LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 199, 23 May 1925, Page 16

CIVIC LEAGUE

MEETING OF COUNCIL. A meeting of the Wellington . Civic League Council was held on Wednesday evening. .Mr. Thomas Gray presided over a good altendaiKe of members. Tho Brooklyn Association notified its decision to join up with the league, and the appointment of Messrs. J. H, Whittaker and 11. Hatch as its delegates to the council. The appointment of Mr. Frank Goldberg as the league’s representative on the Wellington Committee, of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, was confirmed. The report of the secretary on the recent civic elections was adopted. Several important matters contained in the report were discussed, and it was decided to refer them to the conference which will shortly lie held, consisting of all members of the league and representative citizens interested in municipal matters. On the motion of Mr. D. McLaren, it was resolved to respectfully recommend to the Mayor and council the appointment of a committee of .three councillors, practical men, to go into the housing question, and bring down a report. The secretary was instructed to obtain from His Worship the Mayor information in regard to the rest room to be erected on the triangular reserve at the intersection of Manners and Dixon Streets. On the motion of Mr. A. C. Blake it was decided to ask the City Council to state its policy in regard the uncompleted works oil the loan schedule, and oilier works provided for in the estimates mid not carried out. In this connection affiliated associations will be asked to supply information in regard to works provided for in their districts, in the council’s estimates, and which have not been carried out. , Mr. J. IT. Bur&oyne-Thomas considered the time was opportune for the holding of quarterly meetings of all members of the league,' and it was decided to do so, commencing with the general conference.