MOUNT EDEN AFFAIRS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 13

MOUNT EDEN AFFAIRS

STREET LIGHTING COSTS The reduction in street lighting charges made by the Auckland ElectricPower Board will involve a saving of £420 a year to the Mount Eden Borough Council, according to advice received by the council at its meeting last evening. The Mayor, Mr. T. McNab, presided. The general question of street lighting throughout the borough is to be dealt with by a special committee, and another committee will report on the order in which the footpaths are' to receive atare paying £IOO a year to the Health Department," said the Mayor, in referring to a recommendation of the Finance Committee that the Health Department be informed that th« services of the department s inspector will no longer be required. In the future the council intends to carry out the work of fumigation and inspection in connection with infectious diseases in the borough. Ihe recommendation was adopted. Advice was received. from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals stating that the hostel in Balmoral Road was only a temporary institution pending arrangements being made in a more suitable area It was decided to inform the society that the nuisance must be abated within It was decided to ask the Government to make one method of voting f °lt ft was "reported, that building permits to the value of £338 had been ' SS The rate collector reported that 624 calls had been made and £950 arrears of rates collected. . An application from the Y.M.o.A. and Y.W.C.A. for a joint collection m the Mount Eden district on June 2A was declined. .•