PAPAKURA TOWN BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 16

PAPAKURA TOWN BOARD

The Papakura Town Board met last ev £ , T line v McCall presiding. The board decided to cancel the arrangement existing between the town board and the Auckland Electric-Power Board whereby the Power Board had the use of the board’s office free of charge every Friday for the purpose of collecting accounts. The board decided to charg« 2s 6d for the hire of the room. The traffic control committee recommendations for fixed bus stops were adopted. A badly neglected large drain adjacent to the footpath on Wairoa Road is to have five chains piped with ISin pipes. The chairman of the Finance Committee, the Rev. W. C. Wood, reported that the board's finances are in a very healthy condition. He stated that last year the board had an overdraft of £962 10s 9d. At the present time the board had a credit balance of £lis 2s 2d. The outstanding rates amounted to £SOO. Last year, said Mr. Wood, only £267 in rates had been collected by September 30, and this year, at the end of September £2,755 had been collected. He described this as phenomenal, and he attributed the large increase to the introduction of the 5 per cent, rebate. The Finance Committee reported that steps were taken to collect all outstanding rate* at the earliest opportunity.