PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22165, 19 July 1935, Page 14

PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS

OLD MUNICIPAL BUILDING PROPOSAL TO SELL PROPERTY [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE. Thursday The unimposing nature of the building which at present houses the Pukekohe municipal offices and library was .mentioned by Mr. G. T. Parvin at a meeting of the Pukekoho Borough Council last evening.

Mr,, Parvin suggested that further efforts should be made to sell the property so that a modern block could bp erected on another site owned by the council. Ho said that if the present site could be disposed of it would not cost the council a great deal more to erect a new building. The Mayor, Mr. 0. K. Lawrie, and Mr. L. K. Brown supported Mr. Parvin's views. It was decided that the matter of disposing of the present building and site should be referred to the Finance Committee with power to act.

The council resolved to strike rates at a special meeting on August 9, consisting of a consolidated rate of 215-32 d in the pound, and a special rate for tho town district area of 7-32 d in the pound.

Estimates for general expenditure totalling £5519 were approved. It was estimated that the rates would realise £ll,Olß, and that the income from other sources would total £2312. Advice was received from the Auckland Hospital Board that the levy for the year ending March 31 next would be £86(1 in place of £863 for the last financial year.

It was left* to the Mayor, Mr. C. K. Lawrie, and the town clerk, Mr. S. Bish, to meet the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. C. E. Macmillan, in Pukekohe on Monday to urge that some 2} acres of bush land adjacent to Rooseville Park should be acquired and preserved for all time as a scenic reserve under the Scenery Preservation Act,