LOAN PROPOSALS LOST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18225, 19 October 1922, Page 6

LOAN PROPOSALS LOST.

POLL AT BIRKENHEAD.

ISIX SCHEMES TOTAL- £98,500. Loan proposals totalling £98,500 wens submitted yesterday by the Birkenhead Borough Council to a poll"of ratepayers.;/ There; were six separate issues, all of which were rejected. A special drainaga, area had been defined, the sewerage of; which was to cost £40,000. The number™ : of ratepayers in this area eligible to veto ; was 697, of whom 338 exercised their v privilege. The other five proposals • covered/the Whole of the borough, tlis ■, ratepayers on the roll totalling 1023, tiiii, - only 481 voted. The fire brigade propowft ,j was lost by the narrow margin of"'iS!JMssj votes, but as there were 17 infonjjal vote!) II included in the preliminary returns, thtij''. official scrutiny and count may possibly"> affect this, result. All tht> other proposals, > however, are beyond doubt. , : -.'f'\ The amounts of the proposed loans Y ; under the various headings were:—Drain* K age, £40,000; electricity, £17,500; ©a jl bricrade equipment and water £5000; footpavha, £4000; streets improvements, £25,000; transit service,' £3000. • The details of the voting were as follow, the majority being against the propossil% each case: — ".'•'■• , . ~., , L

For Aeet. Maj. Drainage .... 188 186 48 Electricity .... 210 257 47 Fire Brigade and -water 229 237 8' Footpaths .. .. 206 262 56 Street* .... ..193 263 7tf Transit ... y... .. 183 318 :179- K