ONEHUNGA COUNCIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17296, 21 October 1919, Page 5

ONEHUNGA COUNCIL.

LOAN FOR STREET PAVING

The Onehunga Borough Council met last evening. Present: The Mayor. Mr- J. Park, and Messrs- J. Stonpe, W. Johns, (.'. K. Goode, W. J. Bassett, L. J. Lloyd, H. J. Davies, E. J. Higgins, I. Lomas. The trustees of the Auckland' Savings Bau£ wrote agreeing to lend the council £36,000, the amount of the loan recently authorised for paving the main thoroughfare with concrete from the Royal Oak to the Onehunga Wharf. Interest on "the first instalment of £5000 is to be at the rate of 5* per cent, per annum, and on the balance at the rate current when the first instalment of the balance is renuired. The denomination of debentures is to be £1000. The Mayor stated that the council was committed onlv to the first £5000, and if it could get better terms for the balance it would be at liberty to do so. The terms -were agreed to. The Railway Department wrote inquiring if the council wished to retain a triangular section at the junction of Captain Spring's Road and Church Street, now leased from the Department. The council decided to reply in the affirmative. It was agreed to lease to local players the tennis courts adjoining the Carnegie Library, together with a piece of land adjoining, at a low rental, the players to make their own arrangements for forming a new court.

The ,council confirmed the agreement w'th the Mount Roskill Road Board that each body maintain half of the Mount Albert Road about 15 chains from the Seddon Memorial to the borough boundary.

Owing to numerous complaints being received of the dust nuisance in Queen Street, it was decided that the supervision of the watering of this street bo left in the hands of the chairman of the Streets Committee, Mr. H. J. Davies. It was agreed to kerb and channel three chains on both sides of Grey Street West, from Queen Street.

The council decided to support the protest of the Wanganui Borough Council against the proposed reinstatement of Professor Von Zedlitz at Victoria College, Wellington. Two tenders were received for the drainage of the Royal Oak area— McCarteri Bros and Young, scheme A, £3720 2s sd, scheme B £3779 10s 5J ; Alexander Brodie. scheme A £4015, scheme B £4102 bs. McCarten Bros, and Young's tender was accepted, subject to the approval of the engineer and the Drainage Committee. It was decided that the Blockhouse Reserve, which is proposed to be laid out as a Soldiers' Memorial Park, should be called •Tellicoe Park. The .Mayor reported that Mr. T. Pearson, Auckland city landscape gardener, had agreed to act as'sole adjudicator in the competition for suggestions regarding the laying out of the park.