ISLAND BAY AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 56, 29 November 1929, Page 13

ISLAND BAY AFFAIRS

MEETING OF ELECTORS’ ASSOCIATION. The monthly meeting of the executive of the Island Bay Municipal Electors’ •Association was presided over by Mr. G. R. C. Jackman. The executive works committee recommended that the City Council be requested to erect a boulder wall at the extreme south of the eastern rocks of the Bay, and that behind this rubble from adjacent quarries be filled in and top dressed, and a low hedge be planted to provide shelter for the reserves. The council is to be asked to undertake the work, provided thev have no better scheme. The town clerk is to be written to regarding the position of private streets in Island Bay. and asking him to bring the matter before (he By-laws Committee of the Council. The executive expressed its thanks to the general manager of the tramways in acceding to the association’s request for a later tram to Island Bay. The last tram for'lsland Bay will now leave Lambton Station at 11.30 p.m. Improved lighting facilities at the junction of Derwent Street and Milne Terraco by increasing andle power of lamps, is to be the subject of a letter to the town clerk. The secretary was instructed to write to the member for the district, and the Acting-Chief Postmaster expressing satisfaction with the earlier postal delivery in the business area of the Bay. The matter of storm-water drainage from Tiber Street passing through, the school grounds, and washing small shingle away, is having attention. A request for the formation of a footpath on the eastern side of the Duppa Street hill is to be forwarded to the counComplaint was made regarding the width of higher Avon Street, at the corner of Melbourne Road. The width at this point is 10ft.. and as the corner obscured, il is particularly dangerous to motorists. The footpath converges to a widlh of 13 inches, including concrete kerbing.