MOUNT ROSKILL AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20623, 23 July 1930, Page 17

MOUNT ROSKILL AFFAIRS.

EXPENDITURE ON ROADS.

ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR.

The Mount Roskill Road Board met last evening, the chairman, Mr. E. F. Jones, presiding.

A report was received from the special committee set up to consider the estimates for tho current year. The amount available for public works is £12,800, out of which £2900 has been expended for the quarter ended June 50 last, leaving a balance of £9900 for allocation. Of this the committee recommended that £IBOO be set aside for tar and sanding the footpaths within the district, and that £I2OO be allocated for the anticipated work of tar-sealing Mount Albert Road, leaving £6900 for further works. Dividing this into seven shares the committee allocated two shares, or £2OOO, to the southern area, £2OOO to the western, £SOO to (he central, and £2400 to tho eastern. In the southern area the largest items suggested were £IOOO for tar-sealing Hillsborough Road as far as tho money will permit, and £3OO for continuing the tarsealing of Arkell Road. In the western area the main expenditure suggested was in Richardson Road and Arkell Road. The central allocation was deferred. In the eastern area the largest items were £560 for tar-sealing Liverpool Street and kerbing the south side, £375 f6r tar-sealing Torrance Street, and £IOO to complete the tar-sealing of Quetin Avenue to Buckland Road.

.Anticipating the transfer of the remaining balance of the quarry loan, £4628, tlio committee submitted tho estimate of the engineer, Mr. John Dawson, that this would cover the tar-sealing of Pah Road, from Torrance Street to Mount Albert Road, £657; Hillsborough Road, from Mount Albert Road to Richardson Road, £1674; May Road, from Mount Albert Road to Richardson Road, £1096; Mount Albert Road, from Crown Street to Vincent Road, £3600, less £2400, tho subsidy of £2 for £1 from tho Main* Highways Board.

The recommendations wore > adopted. The treasurer stated that the annual interest and sinking fund on that portion of Dominion Road that was concreted by the board amounted to 110 more than the previous cost for maintaining the macadam roading Five building permits have been issued during the past fortnight, including two dwellings. The engineer reported that the western area drainage contracts were proceeding satisfactorilv.