DARGAVILLE BOROUGH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 18

DARGAVILLE BOROUGH

IMPROVING WATER SUPPLY GRANDSTAND FOR NEW PARK [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] DARGAVILLE. Friday Advice that a building permit to the value of £8430 had been issued to Mr. R. Guy, for tho erection of the new Dargaville High School was given in a report of tho building inspector to tho Borough Council at its monthly mocking. . Tho borough rate collections for the period ended January 24 of tho current financial year totalled £10,606, or 85.3 per cent of the total of £12,433 struck, according to a report submitted by the town clerk ; Miss L. Watson. This represented an increase of 1.15 per cent over last year's figures. Information that a pump, by which it is anticipated that Dargaville's municipal water supply will be considerably improved, had arrived from Hamilton, but that the work of installation had been impeded owing to the necessity of securing the permission of the Railway Department for tho erection of a shod to house tho machinery, was given by the chairman of the Waterworks Committee, Mr. B. Berry. The pump was recently purchased from the Hamilton Borough Council. Permission to erccl the shed had later been received. The assurance of tho Mayor that the proposed removal of the grandstand from the racecourse at Awakino Point to provide a stand for tho new Memorial Park at Mangawharo coidd be carried out at a cost of not more than £SOO was not acc<y>ted by a majority of tho councillors. It was finally decided to Elace the work in tho hands of a uilder on a contract basis.