REPAIRS TO FOOTPATHS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22465, 8 July 1936, Page 14

REPAIRS TO FOOTPATHS

WAITING FOR EIGHT YEARS GREAT SOUTH ROAD IMPASSE "Those ratepayers are in an unenviable position; they pay rates to the Ellerslie Town Board and have to look to the One Tree Hill Borough Council for repairs to their footpaths," said Mr. J. J. Toy, at the meeting of the Ellerslie Town Board last night, when a letter was received from a ratepayer asking the board to repair the Great South Road footpaths. "We have waited eight years for the One Tree Hill council to carry out the repairs," stated the letter. Mr. Toy said something would have to be done to ensure that the ratepayers received consideration of their needs. The One Tree Hill council had refused to do the repairs 011 the ground that it received 110 rates from the area concerned. The clerk, Mr. J. W. Carr, said the control of the Great South Road had been removed from the lillerslie board and responsibility placed 011 the Ono Tree Hill council, under the findings of a commission. Tlie council received a share of the petrol tax in respect of the road. The Ellerslie board, which had nothing to do with the complaints and the repairs, had to find over £SOO a year for interest and sinking fund on the concrete road loan, and received only £IBO a year in rates from propertics on the main road.

The chairman, Mr. H. J. White, said the board was helpless. It was decided to pass the complaints to the One Tree Hill council for attention.