ONE TREE HILL AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19860, 2 February 1928, Page 13

ONE TREE HILL AFFAIRS.

THE PAYMENT OF RATES. The One Tree Hill Road Board met last evening, the chairman, Mr. IL G. : Clark, presiding. The statement of rates received to date, was satisfactory, the position being much, the same as on the same date last year. The clerk reported thai; 90 per cent, of the rates due had been collected. A sum oi; £20,945 had been received and £2355 wau still unpaid. It was decided to issue to the Dilworth Institute a temporary building permit for five years to enable a temporary wooden building to be added to the school, Mr. J. S. Hardwicke at first opposed the application, on the grounds that a recent request for permission to erect a wooden building made by the Salvation Army had been refused, but the chairman pointed' out that the latter application had been for permission to erect a two-storeyed building in which to house elderly people, and the circumstances were different The board paid a tribute to tlie memory of a faithful employee, Mr. Francis Carlton, who was recently killed, mem- . bcrs standing when passing a resolution of sympathy with the relatives. Mr. Carlton was struck by a runaway horse which bolted with a milk float in the Great South Road on January 24. Members of the board spoke highly of th« presence of mind shown by Mr. Walshe, another employee of the board, who picked up two small children who had been watching the horse and threw himself with them through the fence.