NEW SCENIC DRIVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 11

NEW SCENIC DRIVE

COMBINED EFFORT

Local bodies in the Auckland area which have so far declined to contribute towards the cost of the proposed Waitakere Drive are to be again approached and asked to provide their quota of the £14,500 required to secure the Government subsidy of £78.500 promised for the work, states the "New Zealand Herald." At a meeting of representatives of local bodies on Tuesday a sub-committee was appointed to wait on those bodies which had not so far contributed and to explain the altered circumstances since the'first request was made. In thb criminal allocation 23 local bodies were asked to find a proportionate ?hare of £14.500. Eleven undertook to provide £11.826. while the remaining 12. who- were asked to find a total of £2674. declined to contribute. Since then the Waitemata County Council agreed to find £674 in addition to its original assessment 0f.£677, and the City Council was committed to a further £1000, leaving £1000 still to be raised.

At Tuesday's meeting, over which the Deputy Mayor, the Hon. B. Martin, M.L.C., presided, the draft clause for special legislation for the raising of the money was presented. This provided that the City Council-should undertake to pay to the Government £14,500, and that local bodies which could not find their shares at once should give debentures to the City Council for the amounts. It was mentioned that the term for the redemption of the debentures could be fixed at up to ten years, although those bodies which desired it could pay in two years or less.