PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20363, 18 September 1929, Page 14

PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS.

IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS.

FARM LANDS IN BOROUGH

[by telegram.—-own correspondent.] PUKEKOHE, Tuesday.

The Pukckohe Borough Council met lust evening, the Mayor, Mr. John Routly, presiding. Mr. W. J. Short, who took his seat as the member elected to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. .T. Bellhouse, was appointed to tho Works Committee.

An offer was accepted of 13000 loan money at per cent, interest and £3 Os 6d per cent, sinking fund as the first half of the £6OOO loan for roads and streets rocently authorised. On the recommendation of the Works Committee it was decided that tho work to bo done out of loan money during tho current financial year should include the following:— Widening bitumen on Manukau and Buckland Roads and installing new concrete culvert, £870; widening bitumen on Drury-Waiuku main highway in the borough, £270; reconstruction and bituminising in Kitchener Iload, £528; metalling Valley Road, £700; constructing storm water channels in concrete, Kitchener Road and Ward Street, £500; footpath work, £132. The refusal by the council to issue a permit for tho erection of a hall on a site of one-tenth of an acre in Queen Street, for tho Orange Lodge, on the grounds that the proposed hall on such a sito would interfere with tlie amenities of the locality, was the subject of ;i letter from a legal firm. They stated that the trustees of tho lodge wished to know what were the amentities of the locality that would bo detrimentally affected and what steps the trustees should take to avoid interfering with such amenities. Tho Mayor explained that owing to the restricted size of the section, it had been proposed to put the hall right out to the street frontage. This would detract from an adjoining residential properly by cutting off sunlight and would also detract from the other residential properties in the locality. To overconio the difficulty, tho trustees should acquire more land to at least allow them to build the hall back in line with the house on the adjoining property to tho south. If they did this, the council would be preapred to issue the permit. Tho Mayor was asked to reply to the letter.

It was decided to advise tho district engineer of public works that the council favoured the suggested appointment of one inspector for several adjoining local bodies to control heavy traffic. The Public Trustoo applied for the revaluation of two farm properties in tho borough which wero being administered by him. It was decided to reply that pending tho legislation being introduced by the Government, regarding rating on farm lands in boroughs and town districts, tho council was not moving in the matter of revaluations of farm lands in tho borough.