TAURANGA INTERESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19897, 16 March 1928, Page 9

TAURANGA INTERESTS.

HERRI ES TRUST FUND. MAIN HIGHWAYS IN BOROUGH. [BY' TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TATJRANGA, Thursday. The monthly meeting of the Borough Council was held last evening. It was decided to advise the Rotorua Borough Council that March 22 Would be a suitable date for a conference of local bodies of members of the highways group to-con-sider the question of the allocation of heavy traffic fees. The assistant-District Public Trustee, Auckland, wrote pointing out that the sum of £IOOO bequeathed to the Borough of Taurariga by the late Sir William Herries must be expended in terms of the trust by February 22, 1929. otherwise any residue of the trust fund would fall into the residue of the estate, and be disposed of accordingly. The Controller and Auditor-General advised that if the Kaimai Road is used in a great measure by the inhabitants of the borough for purposes of convenience or other public utility, the council may, in terms of section 173 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, make a grant toward the cost of metalling that road. The council agreed to the payment of a grant of £4OO on completion of the Kaimai Road contract. The council, by five votes to four, rescinded a resolution passed in September last, asking the Government to build stockyards at the Tauranga railway station. Mr. H. Watkinson, district engineer of the Public Works Department, forwarded a communication intimating that certain roads in the borough have been declared main highways, the total length being four miles 14 chains. These roads will carry a maintenance subsidy from the Highways Board of £1 10s for £l. The conn- | cil agreed that plans be prepared for considerable improvements to the main highways, and also authorised metalling improvements to proceed on various other roads. During the year ended March 15. building permits to the value of £19,641 were ! granted by the Borough Council, i The Minister of Education, Hon. R. A. Wright, having advised that he will visit i Tauranga on March 22, the council decided to support the representations to be made by the school committee and i the Chamber of Commerce to the Minister for the erection of a technical high school