NEWMARKET AFFAIRS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 14

NEWMARKET AFFAIRS

UPKEEP OF MAIN HIGHWAYS GRASS FIRE MENACE At a meeting of the Newmarket Borough Council, held last evening, the Mayor, Mr. S. Donaldson, presiding, it was decided to support a remit from the Green Island Borough Council, Otago, to the Municipal Conference, wliL.. ged that the Main Highways Board should be solely responsible for the maintenance of arterial roads. Mr. Donaldson said that although ho did not think that the remit had much chance of coming into force, ne certainly agreed with the statement in the accompanying letter that the upkeep of main highways was a burden on local bodies, particularly small ones. In a report received from the Newmarket Fire Brigade on the fires which had been attended since the lasl meeting, it was stated that the brigad 1 had suppressed six grass fires It therefore recommended that owners of any property on which dry grass was growing should be warned to make a move to do away with the danger of fire, for on several occasions when the brigade had been called out to attend grass fires property had been endangered by the outbreak. Having decided to permit a subscription to be opened in the municipal office on behalf of the widows of the ill-fated Tasman fliers, the council headed the list with a donation of £2