TAMAKI WEST DISTRICT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 13

TAMAKI WEST DISTRICT.

BOARD'S LOAN PROPOSALS.

TOTAL SUM OF £91,800.

LARGE AMOUNT FOR ROADS.

The Tamaki West Road Board has decided to take a poll of ratepayers on the following loan proposals :— Electric lighting and water works extensions .. .... £18,000 Purchase of Point England reserve and of land for widening the Kohimarama esplanade . . £21,650 Fire brigade station and equipment, office extensions, and dressing sheds on beaches . . ' £4,650 Road construction, plant, and purchase of quarry reserves £47,500 Total proposed loans . . £91,800 Explaining the loan proposals yesterday, the chairman, Mr. M. G. McArthur, stated it would be several years before the total amount would bo expended. The proposed loan for extensions of the electric light and wafer reticulation system would provide sufficient funds under this head for five or six years at least. It was required to make available lighting and water services to the large areas now being rapidly built upon. The Point England reserve was situated on the Tamaki River over which the board held an option from. St. John's College trustees. It was a fine piece of land, said the chairman, and ratepayers should not hesitate to use this opportunity for its acquisition. As to the Kohimarama Strand the proposal wa3 to purchase Che whole of the sections in the subdivision fronfing the beach, and to remove the houses to the back portion of the sections, and so clear the way for the continuation of the esplanade to the main road. The bathing sheds, if authorised, would be erected in concrete,' two each at Kohimarama and St. Holiers. Tamaki West already possessed an efficient fire brigade and the item under this head was to give proper housing accommodation for the unit. With reference to the loan of £47,500 for road works, quarry reserves and plant, the chairman said the ratepayers last year authorised a sum of £32,000 for construction ' 6i side roads. Several of those roads were practically main roads, which, however well constructed, if not sealed would soon be subjected to the same volume of traffic as the recently constructed bituminous roads, and so be very quickly torn to pieces. The board was unanimous that these particular roads should be constructed in bitumen. It had been decided also to purchase a stone crusher, steam roller and all other necessary plant for road construction.