MANUREWA INTERESTS
TOWN BOARD FINANCES A statement of the Manurewa Town Board's finances was submitted last night at the board's meeting. It showed that the receipts had totalled £8560, including current rates £2907, and arrears of rates £1597. The expenditure amounted to £9447, leaving an overdraft of £BB7. Tho clerk, Mr. H. Kay, reported that approximately 70 per cent of tho current rates had been collected and 45 per cent of arrears. The rates outstanding at March 31 totalled £3232. Members expressed their satisfaction with the position. Proposals to make a garden entrance to the township were discussed by the board. Last year the board constructed a concrete footpath on the eastern side of the Great South Road with "island" flower plots. A proposal to construct a similar footpath on the opposite side was discussed last night. Mr. E. S. Pegler said the residents whose frontages were concerned had offered to keep the flower plots in order. Members, in approving the scheme, said it would b« advisable to have a uniform system of | planting over the half-mile strip of rot Away concerned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22399, 21 April 1936, Page 11
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