WAITEMATA LOAN POLLS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22532, 24 September 1936, Page 12

WAITEMATA LOAN POLLS

ONE PROPOSAL SANCTIONED £7200 FPR ROADING A loan of £7200 for roadirag improvements/was sanctioned at a poll of ratepayers of the Takapuna riding of the Waitemata County yesterday, the voting being 261 for the proposal and 106 egainstr A-second proposal to raise a loan "of £63OC for" the beautification - of a number of the East Coast beaches did not receive the required < three-fifthr'-hiajoritv itnd was lost. The voting was 203 'for the propoiial and 161 against" it. - ; , . , The first proposal, which carried, as subject td a subsidy of £3 for £3 from the 'Main Highways ]3oard. BODY: FOUND ON BEACH IDENTITY NOT, ESTABLISHED DOUBLE DROWNING RECALLED [bt telegraph-—press association] ' " MASTBRTON, Wednesday The. finding of the. body of a man fen the beach near Cape Palliser lighthouse yesterday is believed to be a aequel to the double drowning accident in Lake Onoke on July 5. The body lad been in the sea for a considerable and identification has not yot been established. - • The place where the discovery was made is about 45 miles front Martinborough,* and ' was reached by the Martiuborough police after a tramp of five or six. miles from the end of the road. The body was brought into Martinborough this evening. The two ineri who lost their lives in the dake were Messrs. G. W. Bicknell 1 and C. E. Latham, members of a fish- 1 ing party of four whose boat capsized ] jn the channel running to the outlet of the lake. No one else has been re- . ported missing in the district for some ! time. / - * =========== fJ