LOAN PROPOSAL REJECTED
CIVIC SQUARE AT HAMILTON LIVELY INTEREST BY RATEPAYERS ißy Telegraph - Press Associationl HAMILTON, This Day. A lively interest was taken last evening in the ratepayers’ poll to remove Garden Place Hill in Hamilton, 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, lay out a civic square, and make business sec tions available. They estimated that the return would be over £90.000, with the additional benefits and rates and rents
Feeling has been running high over [he past week, and more than twice as many people voted as voted for the last loan for the waterworks in 1928.
The figures were 1171 for the proposal, 1384 against, 31 informal and 83 declarations.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 April 1937, Page 8
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144LOAN PROPOSAL REJECTED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 April 1937, Page 8
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