LOANS FOR £28,000
THE ONEIIUNGA PROJECTS COUNCIL TO REQUEST POLL QUESTION OF OBJECTIONS The Onchunga Borough Council decided at a special meeting last night to apply to tho Local Government Loans Board for permission to take a pol 1 of ratepayers on a proposal to borrow £20,000 for street _ improvements and £BOOO for swimming baths. Tho only dissentient was Mr. W. J. Moore, who contended that the price asked for tho sito of the baths was too high. As the result of a discussion whether two numerously signed petitions regarding the loan proposals constituted valid objections to them, it was agreed to forward the petitions to the Loans Board for decision, together with 10 definite objections by individual ratepavers. It was also decided that the Loans Board be informed that a ■widespread but erroneous impression had got abroad that the council intended to raise the money without consulting tho ratepayers. In answer to a statement made in one of the petitions, that the rates in Onehunga were already too high, Mr. L. C. McClintock quoted figures to show that the borough debt and 11io rates per head of population were among the lowest in tho Dominion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23431, 22 August 1939, Page 11
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196LOANS FOR £28,000 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23431, 22 August 1939, Page 11
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