MOUNT ROSKILL AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19675, 29 June 1927, Page 14

MOUNT ROSKILL AFFAIRS.

LOAN FOR ROADING WORK. The Mount Roskill Road Board met last evening, Mr. E. F. Jones presiding. The clerk was instructed to advertise the board's intention to seek the consent of the Local Government Loans Board to raising a loan of £BB,OOO for paving Three Kings and Mount Albert Roads in concrete. The board intends to ask the consent of the ratepayers to borrow £3IOO for a water-main in Ridge Road, and to apply the balance of the loan of £5500 recently obtained to the cost of building new municipal chambers. Estimates of proposed expenditure in road maintenance from now until the end of the financial year were presented by the engineer. Mr. J. D. Whitmore. In asking for .tjie sum of £4125 for road maintenance Mr. Whitmore said he had endeavoured to work within the limit .for wages as indicated by the board a fortnight ago. In addition to this amount he reckoned for footpaths £I2OO, May Road culvert £4OO, scoria and metal £IOOO, maintenance of plant £3OO, petrol and oil £SOO, engineer and staff £BOO, plant £I4OO, and other items £ll2O 14s, making a total of £10,845 14s. The Auckland Electric-Power Board notified the reticulation in Arkell's Road from Ridge Road to May Road would be undertaken when the revenue from the area warranted it, which was expected to be soon. The engineer advised the board to agree to the terms of the Auckland City Council for permanent work in Landscape Road at an estimated cost of €2050. half to be paid by the board. He suggested that if water-bound, macadam were used a bituminous surface would give more permanent service. An offer by the One Tree Hill Road Ronrd to supply water at lOd per 1000 eallonsi was accepted. The Mount Eden Borough Council is to be asked to state its terms for a supply of water. The board has suggested that the Auckland Education Board should sell n section in Dominion Road, and use the proceeds to acquire two entrances to the Royal Oak school, one from Mount Albert Road, and the otV>or from Kingston Avenue, The Education Board notified that its advisory inspector would report on the matter. There are 18 buildings in course of erection in the district. Eight permits for buildings to the value of £1920 were issued during the past fortnight.