NOTES FROM TAURANGA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20721, 14 November 1930, Page 12

NOTES FROM TAURANGA.

I CONTROL OF A DOMAIN. [ny TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT, [j TAURANGA. Thursday, ( Tlic Tauranga Borough Council last evening received a letter from the Mount 1 Maunganui Town Board staling that tho board intended to ask tho Minister of Lands that tho Mount Maunganui Domain bo vested in tho Town Board. Tho domain for many years lias been administered by tho Taurang,-v Borough Council, which functions as tho Domain Board. Mr. C. •' Whiting said ho did not approve of tho ' relinquishing of control and considered ■ that tho pcoplo of Tauranga should have 1 ft say. Tho council decided to defer the matter for a month. < Six tenders were received for altera- ! tions to tho old library building as 1 Ptunkot and rest rooms and tho tender 1 of Messrs. Cullen and Mansel, £437 15s, 1 was accepted. The district engineer of the Public j Works Department advised that the Main v Highways Board was making a tour of I tho East Coast district and would arrive 1 in Tauranga from Rotorua on November c 26, leaving for Waihi next morning. 1 A report was adopted recommending to 5 tho next council a new site for tho motal crusher at Sulphur Point in tho vicinity 1 of tho old military cemetery. ''