BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20690, 9 October 1930, Page 16

BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH.

PROPOSED NEW WHARF. U N EMPLOYMENT REL IEF. The Birkenhead Borough Council met last evening, the Mayor. Mr. ,J. 1 . McRhail, presiding. The supei intendeut ot the Auckland Harbour Board, Mr. 11. B. Burnett, wrote, in reply (o tho council's inquiry, that Hie chairman had no objection to the council conferring with the board's engineer in connection with the proposed wharf at Little Shoal Ray. A coiderence with the, engineer is to be arranged accordingly. The I.oral Government. Loans 'Board advised' that investigations were being made in connection with the application for permission to borrow £3500 without a poll for unemployment relief. Tie- Birkenhead Ex servicemen's Association wrote that a fund had been -lilted for the employment of ex-service-men at I'irl-.enhead, and this would be vested in the Mayor and town clerk and /lie president and secretary of the association. It v.as hoped that the funds collected would be subsidised in the usual wav. and devoted I" the employment of e.\- .-ervicemeti. a roll of whom would be kept, 'flic council decided to subsidise all s111:ireceived from this source pound for pound.

Mr. J. Mi (amis, chairman of the No. 1 l»i-triil 11 i.'liway-i Council, wrote that the amounts available for maintenance evpeiiili; ure this year would he 02 for •he main road from ihe Birkenhead Wharf 'he rir.i■ (51orI> I nilarv and ,1153 for 1 lliev.u l!o;i,|.

Ihe Mayor reported that repairs had heen carried out on I'.irkdalc, Puriri and liangatira T?i,.ni, whirl) were now reason- ■ i ily passable fop tlio carriage of soft iniits. An outlay of Jul33 would he made shortly for bitumen sealing an additional halt a mile of roadwav at Birkdalo. I be Birkenhead l-'ire Board wrote statnicr that it would not funefion until April I next and ,f askp( | ( ~c , with thr Northcoterouneii for the services |. the r 'i'thr'ote Fire Brigade until March ,->1 tie allowed to continue. 'lbis win apreer] to.

Ihe waterworks engineer reporter] that, the consumption of water for the pa=t month was 2.500.000 gallons. A motion that three, guineas be donated lost. 1110 Modernising Society was