HAMILTON’S CIVIC SQUARE
COUNCIL SCHEME DEFEATED.
[per press association.]
HAMILTON, April 29.
Lively interest was taken in the ratepayers’ poll to remove Garden Place Hill, in Hamilton, last evening, and after a record poll, the Council’s scheme to remove the hill was beaten by 213 votes. The Council planned to raise a loan of £89,000 to remove the hill, which is in the centre of the town, and lay out a civic square, and make business sections available. They estimated the return would) be over £90,000, with additional benefits, and rates and rents. Feeling has been running high over the past week, and more than twice as many people voted as voted for the last loan for waterworks, in 1928. The figures were 1171 for and 1384 against, 31 informal, and 83 declarations.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1937, Page 2
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