DEVONPORT COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 6

DEVONPORT COUNCIL

FINANCES REVIEWED DEFICIT WIPED OUT The Devonport Borough will be represented at the conference of local bodies with the town-planning director by delegates to be appointed at the first meeting of the new council. Mr. Aldridge, Mayor, and Mr. C. M. Browne will represent the council at an appeal, to be heard by the TownPlanning Board, against a decision of the borough that a section in Old Lake Road is not to be used for shop sites. This was decided at a meeting of the council last night. The engineer submitted plans for the combined bathing accommodation and a boat-house at Narrow Neck; they will bo submitted to a public meeting shortly. Complaints about the smoke nuisance from til© North Shore rubbish destructor were reported on by the sanitary inspector, who said the trouble was caused very largely by attempting to burn the rubbish hurriedly. Arrangements have been made to obviate this. Residents of Summer Street, Stanley Bay, complained that owing to the recent ploughing up of the shoulders on the road, pedestrians cannot walk across it. The engineer will endeavour to use a road, grader on the street. The treasurer submitted the annual accounts, which showed that the general account was in debit about £7,000. but there were credits that would almost balance that. The Mayor said this was very satisfactory, as it meant that the borough had. in two years, practically wiped out the £6,000 deficit left by the previous council. The first year’s working of the electrically-driven pumping plant showed a saving of about £3.000 as against the steamdriven plant costs. The saving will meet the extra capital charges on the new installation.