AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16876, 14 June 1918, Page 7

AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL.

MINOR MATTERS CONSIDERED.

The - City Council met last evening, the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson presiding. A communication from the Queensland executive of the Australian Town-plan-ning Conference and Exhibition, asking for exhibits in the form of plans, designs, photographs, or models of bridges, roads, or other municipal works, such as destructors, for the exhibition to be held at Brisbane, was referred to the Works Committee.

Notification was given by the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board that the proportion assessed upon the city to the genera! fund for the year ending March 31, 1919, was £22,306 17s Bd. The board also gave notice that the services of the city engineer would not now be required in a consultative capacity. The Workers' Education Association applied for a grant of £100, similar to that of 1915. The sum of £50 was voted. Applications from the Victoria League for the free use of the concert chamber on June 27 for the purpose of an illustrated war lecture, from the Women's National Reserve lor the free use of the Town Hall for the next reunion of mothers and wives of soldiers and sailors on August 1, and from the Y W C \ for the free use of the Town Hall on June 20 for the purpose of raising funds for a hut in trance for the Women's Auxiliary Corps, were granted subject to the usual conditions.

It was decided that the council should visit Comwallis Park on July 17 for the purpose of dedicating the McLachlan memorial on Puponga Point. Regarding the removal of Messrs. Burns and Co.'s building at the corner of Beach and Breakwater Roads, the General Manager of Railways wrote, stating that Messrs. Burns and Co. had the right of occupation of the premises until June 1920. and it was unlikflv that the firm would consent to vacate the premises without further compensation.