MT. ALBERT LOAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 10

MT. ALBERT LOAN

WORK ON RESERVES £5,000 TO BE RAISED For the purpose of providing unemployment relief work in three reserves, the Mount Albert Borough Council intends raising a loan of £5.000, and at a meeting of the council held last evening it was decided to apply to the Government Works Department for a £1 to £ 1 subsidy on the work. Plans would bo forwarded to the Local Government Loans Board for its approval. The money will be used for work on the Morningside Reserve, where it is proposed to lay down a second football field, Gribblehirst Park, • re a motor drive will bo formed ah Arawa Avenue to Edendale Road, and at the Mount Albert Domain, where the money will bo spent in levelling the old railway quarry and converting it into a children’s play area. On the recommendation of the joint committee it was decided to take no further action in raising £50,000 on tho amount authorised by the ratepayers in 1926, and to use it for unemployed relief works. Letters were received from two associations in tho borough, protesting against tho raising of this loan, but it was decided to inform these bodies of the council’s decision, making it clear in doing so that it was never intended that the loan should be a new one, but that it would form part of the amount authorised previously.