ONSLOW BOROUGH

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7444, 19 May 1911, Page 1

ONSLOW BOROUGH

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. PROPOSED . TRAMWAY EXTENSION TO KAIWAKKA. A ’ meeting* of the’ Onslow Borough. Council was hold last ‘evening, -there being present the Mayor (Mr if. Holdsworth) and Councillors Lynnebe-rg, .Gardner, Bowden, Bates, Stafford, Dingwall, ApLn and Darvall. The recommendation of th© ' finance committee that the district fund account amounting to *£522 12s lid be passed’ for payment, as funds were available, ■,and that' a sum of *£so bo voted tho late Mayor .was adopted. -J . . > It was decided on tho recommendation of 1 the public,' works" 'oomamitte©,. that th© present council chamber bo ronted’.for :a year.* at' £so.' ' ’ ’V'-"' ' ‘• v ' ‘r A . recommendation from 'the* public works committee ..that, the necessary steps for submitting tho Khandallah HaU- pror posa], :<£lsoo,:*to aYpoll '■.of'-tlie ratepayers b© proceeded "with'at one©-was adopted. Councillor Darvall m'oitd ; w< That th© Wellington City* Council bo asked whether,' it consider. the question of co-dperatjiig ■ with tho Onflow Borough -in- th©. erection of a footbridge -and ,tho. construction -of necessary’; approaches across rth© Ngaio: \aiijd. Wadestown; also, - that 55 - a committee 'consisting of the councilicßs for Ngaio ward and tho Mayor bo appointed to deal with this matter." ’ ‘ : Councillor Stafford' seconded. . Th©, motion, was carried. - A motion was moved * by Councillor Dingwall that th© Government be asked to put down a kerbing dividing the footpath - irom the bicycle . track from Kaiwarra. to the Esplanade! ’The Mayor thought the council should not commit itself to anything connected with the Hutt road, as otuer local bodies were acting similarly.' Another • reason was that the land was in the city, not in the borough. . - Th© motion was lost. EXTENSION OF THE TRAMWAY. The following - was moved by Councillor Bowden*. "That a deputation consisting, of members of the Onslow Borough Council bo appointed to wait on the Wellington City Council to urge th© desirability of extension of the tramway from the’ Esplanade terminus to Ivaiwaxra as -speedily as possible." The councillor , said that already a petition in favour of this had been signed bv 127 persons. H© know that by statute electric traction was forbidden on this road, but he thought something oould-be don©. The Mayor was of opinion that tho law was too. big a . stumbling block. Th© motion-was carried. v