NEW LYNN AFFAIRS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22032, 12 February 1935, Page 5

NEW LYNN AFFAIRS

WORK ON SCHOOL GROUNDS RELIEF LABOUR SOUGHT Advice was received from the Post and Telegraph Department at last night's meeting of the New Lynn Borough Council that the matter of improved telephone facilities for the outer suburbs was receiving attention and that a statement would probably bo made on the matter before long. Letters were also received from local members of Parliament expressing sympathy with the movement for cheaper telophone facilities and promising their support. A deputation was received from the New Lynn School Committee asking for the provision of relief labour 011 the school grounds. It was explained by the Mayor, Mr. G. Lawson, that the council no longer possessed the right to assign No. 5 scheme workers to such tasks without the sanction of the Labour Department. The council was agreeable to the provision of five or six men for an indefinite period, and it was decided to forward the school committee's application to the Labour Department with a recommendation that it be" approved. "The ratepayers are more .than satisfied with the work that you have done for the district during the last 16 years," remarked the deputy-mayor, Mr. A. J. Jaffrey, wheif asking the Mayor to accept nomination for candidature for another term, the request being made on behalf of the full council.

Thanking the councillors for the confidence which they placed in him. Mr. Lawson said he would give the matter his fullest consideration.