GLEN EDEN TOWN BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19196, 9 December 1925, Page 8

GLEN EDEN TOWN BOARD.

ELECTRICITY RETICULATION. IMMEDIATE WORK DEFINED. The Glen Eden Town Board met on Monday evening. The chairman, Mr. J. M. West, presided. A resident in the Waari Hamlet wrote advocating more direct connection of his district with Glen Eden by certain roads. The writer was advised to communicate with the Waitemata County Council, the local body concerned. As a result of representations made to Mr. J. Dempsey, chairman of the City Council Works Committee, the council wrote advising that the concreting work on the Great North Road would bo continued to the junction with the West Coast Road. The Waitemata Power Board wrote advising that the roads to be reticulated immediately were: Great Jsorth, Edenview, West Coast, Pleasant, \ alley, Evans, Scott's, Brandon, Clayburn, Oates, Woodlands and Prospect Roads. With regard to the post office site, the Department advised that the matter was still under consideration, but that efforts would be made to have it settled next month. The department also advised that the request for additional letter-boxes had been granted and that these, three in number, had been erected in the district. The clerk reported that Mr. J. McEnnis, district engineer to the Main Highways Board, had been requested to make an early inspection of the proposed detour roads, so that the board might be entitled to a subsidy for the maintenance of these during the reconstruction of the Great North Road. With regard to Clayburn Road, the residents intimated that they would be content for the present with a few chains of footpath, which they would complete by voluntary labour if the board carried out the preliminary ploughing to a width of five furrows. The chairman of the Works Committee was authorised to have the ploughing done. The clerk was instructed to advise the City Council that the Glen Eden roads would be closed to heavy traffic from May to September, 1926, inclusive. It was decided to submit tihe plans for a septic tank at the public hall to the Health Department for approval before proceeding with the work. Permission was given to the Bowling Club to cross West Coast Road with the water pipe to the greens. With regard to the 'suggestion that a water supply to the public hall be taken off this pipe, consideration was deferred pending some definite as to the cost. Two members of the board and the clerk were appointed to interview a local land owner in an endeavour to reach some definite arrangement on the proposal to link up Evan's Road with a proposed road through his property, and also with Leamington Road. This would provide a through route from West Coast Road and Pleasant Road into tho centre of the township, via Evan's Road.