NEW LYNN ROADS.
LOAN FOR CONCRETING.
WATERWORKS PROPOSAL LOST.
A proposal to raise a loan of £4650 to be spent on the concreting of roads in (he New Lynn borough was carried at a poll of ratepayers yesterday. The voting was 210 in favour of the proposal and 113 against. Of the sum to be raised. £3OOO will be spent on concreting 76 chains of tbo Titirangi Road from the Great North Road to Iho boundary of the Waitemata County. As concreting on the county's portion of tho road will shortly bo proceeded with, an uninterrupted concrete highway will be provided from the city to the summit of the hill at Titirangi. The balance of the loan will bo spent on concreting Todd's and Totara Avenues from the Great North Road to tho railway level crossing, on which exceptionally heavy traffic has been carried during the past two years. A proposal to raise a loan of £B6OO for the strengthening and extension of tho waterworks system was lost, 178 votes votes being registered against, and 141 for the proposal. Only £2400 of the loan had been authorised by (he Local Government Loans Board to be raised at present. Only 346 of tho 1300 ratepayers on tho New Lynn toll voted. There are 16 declaratory votes yet to be counted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20673, 19 September 1930, Page 17
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