ROAD BOARD TO BOROUGH
ROSKILL PETITION MORE THAN ENOUGH SIGNATURES The petitions which have been circulating recently in the Mount Roskill Road District advocating elevation to a borough status, were laid before the meeting of the Road Board last evening. The total number of signatures required is 506, but this has been exceeded by 83. The board agreed to forward the petitions to the Governor-General, who is authorised under the act to institute the necessary procedure for a poll of ratepayers to be taken. Speaking to the motion, Mr. G. E. Tansley remarked .that when the Municipal Corporations Act is amended next session as promised Mount Roskill, under a borough status, will be empowered to give relief to those rural taxpayers who were being adverselyaffected under the system of rating on unimproved values. As a road board such relief was impossible.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 16
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