GARDEN PLACE HILL
HAMILTON LOAN POLL- ,**. i RAISING SUM OF £77,500 URGE MAJORITY IN FAVOUR [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Monday A poll was conducted by the Hamil. ton Borough Council over a special rating area to-day for sanction to raise £77,500 for the improvement of the. area between Victoria Street and Anglesea Street known as Garden-Placa . Hill. The poll resulted as follows:-** P'or the proposal . . . . 129 . v Against the proposal . . 31 Informal .. ... . * •• 1 r; - Majority . . . . . . 98 One declaration has yet to come. The special rating area, which is in the central business section or the town, includes Victoria Street and is bounded by Hood, Anglesea and Bryce Streets. A poll was held in April of last year in connection with a similar proposal, the area over which the poll was takea being the whole of the borough. -On that occasion the loan for which sanction was sought was £89,000. The poll resulted in 1171 voting for the proposal and 1384 against, the issue being de* feated by 213 votes. Since then thtf* scheme has been modified to some extent, and a smaller sum is sought to b« raised, the security offered being i'_ smaller rating area than in the first instance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 10
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