WHANGAREI BOROUGH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22260, 7 November 1935, Page 20

WHANGAREI BOROUGH

RELIEF EMPLOYMENT PARK IMPROVEMENT SCHEME [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI. Wednesday The Whangarei Borough Council on Monday made a further grant of £SO on a pound for pound basis for unemployed ex-soldiers. The chairman of the Works Committee, Mr. It. S. Finch, said he was not satisfied with the way previous grants had been expended. The putting of men on chipping weeds in the street was most unsatisfactory. He urged that a comprehensive scheme for the improvements of Mair Park should bo prepared and the men placed on that work.

At a later stage in the meeting, during consideration of a recommendation from the Parks Committee that improvements should be made to Mair Park, including the erection of a bridge over the Hatea Itiver, Mr. Finch referred to the condition of the park as a disgrace to the town. He contended that a more comprehensive scheme should be submitted before anything was done to the bridge. The council decided, that the chairmen of the Works and Parks Committees should confer in regard to the work to be allocated to the ex-soldiers unemployed. It was also decided that the whole council and the engineer should visit Mair Park and go into the question of the bridge on the spot. The council appointed Messrs. E. G. W. Tibbits, J. Donaldson and# J. T. Brown as its representatives on tho Anzac Park Domain Board. The Whangarei Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, wrote forwarding a donation of £SO to the Mayor's fund in support of the Wilson home for crippled children at Takapuna. The donation was authorised at the annual meeting of shareholders of the company. The company was thanked for its generous gift.