MT. WELLINGTON AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 4 April 1929, Page 14

MT. WELLINGTON AFFAIRS.

DRAINAGE IN MANUKAU. The Mount Wellington Road Board met on Tuesday evening, the chairman, Mr. George Kay, presiding. The Auckland Institute and Museum notified that the hoard's contribution under tlie Auckland War Memorial Maintenance Act amounted to £3l 12s lOd.

The Auckland Town Planning Board asked to he informed when the board considered the removal of scoria from the quarry at Mount Wellington should be stopped. It was decided to reply stating tlio board was carrying out its work in accordance with the Lands Department's requirements. Further work would not jeopardise tho cone, but merely flatten out, the lower slopes.

Tho Auckland Harbour Board forwarded a communication concerning tho necessity for setting up a drainage board to deal with the drainage of trade waste into the Manukau Harbour from the industrial area at Wcstfield, ' and suggesting that the R ailwav Department should be asked to consider tho filling in of the area eastward of the Main Trunk railway. In view of tho fact that a conference of representatives of local bodies wiili the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board had been hold during tho previous year and that it had been arranged to include the Wcstfield and Manukau area in n report to bo submitted by the secretary-engineer of tho Drainage Board, it was resolved to defer consideration of the letter from the Harbour Board until this report had been received Representations had been made during 1927 by the board to the Railway Department asking for the filling in of the area inside the railway embankment, but tho department declined the request on tho ground of expense. It was decided to again take up tho matter with a view to tho elimination of the unsightly tidal waste. The clerk reported that the board's credit balance at the bank on March 31, 1929, amounted to with the credit at the beginning of the year of £1843 19s 9d. Rweipts for the year amounted to £9428 IBs Bd, and expenditure to £9059 2s. Satisfaction was expressed that overdraft interest for llio year had only amounted to 19s 3d.