BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19344, 3 June 1926, Page 13

BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH.

THE ESTIMATES ADOPTED. The Birkenhead Borough Council met last evening, the Mayor, Mr. E. G. Skeates, presiding. Estimates were adopted for the current year necessitating the collection of rates totalling 6|d in the £ on the unimproved .value. The consolidated rate of 6|d is the same as last year. The other £-d is for interest and sinking fund charges for the first £IO,OOO of the 1924 loan. The first year's interest and sinking fund on the final £7OOO of the 1924 loan, raised in January last, is to be paid out of the loan. The water rate is to be Id in the £, and for non-consumers in the £. Meter supplies are to be charged Is 6d per thousand gallons. It was decided that Mr. Frank Finch should be, officially designated "engineertown clerk." His duties are to embrace the supervision of the outside work, in addition to those of town clerk. A junior clerical assistant is to be qjigaged. The waterworks engineer reported that 2,600,000 gallons of water bad been used during May. Ho also intimated that the level of Lake Takapuna had risen one foot, since the preceding month. The foreman of works intimated that the staff had been reduced to the usual winter number, the total outside staff now being ten. It was decided to include Wairoa Avenue in the area for the collection of Rubbish. Four building permits, of a value of £1350, were granted. The Minister for Internal Affairs is to be asked to sanction the use of a portion of the Domain adjoining the public cemetery as an Anglican cemetery. The proposed by-law regarding the navigation of ferry steamers in the Auckland basin was received trorn the Marine Boroughs' Association." The Mayor considered the safeguard apainst a collision perfectly reasonable. The council expressed appreciation of the action of the Harbour Board.