ONE TREE HILL AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18631, 12 February 1924, Page 9

ONE TREE HILL AFFAIRS.

TWO LOAN POLLS TO-MORROW QUARRY AND FIRE STATION. Polls will be held to-morrow on the proposals of the One Tree Hill Road Board to raise ■ loans of £5000 for the •purchase of land and machinery for a quarry, and £5000 for the purchase of land and the erection of a building for fire brigade purposes. Referring to, the quarry loan, the chairman of the board, Mr. R. G. Clark, stated yesterday that the board had for over two years past, been indebted to one of its ratepayers for the source of its metal supply, and had been conducting quarrying operations on private land with considerable success. The owner now wished to resume possession of his property. It was intended to purchase about seven acres of good quarry land, situated in the centre of the district, and to install the latest quarrying and crushing plant. If the proposal was carried, said Mr. Clark, it was anticipated that- not only would! the One Tree Hill ratepayers always have a ready supply of metal on hand for their own roads, but that large quantities of metal would be available for sale, thus making the enterprise selfsupporting and profit-earning. The loan for the fire brigade, said Mr. Clark, would resplt in a saving to ratepayers, as insurance companies would reduce premiums. Thus ratepayers would reap the benefit of any small rate that might be imposed.