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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 996, 12 June 1930, Page 18

COUNCIL AIDS CLUB

CROQUET LAWNS TO BE IMPROVED DEVONPORT ACTIVITIES Scoria to form a “mat” over the area used for croquet lawns at' Stanley Park was asked from the Devonport Borough Council last evening by a deputation from the Stanley Bay Improvement Association, which intends to find volunteer labour to relay the 'lawns. Two previous attempts, costing £ 350, had failed, and the Croquet Club had reached the limit of its finances. The council accepted the offer, on the condition that it would not be under a liability. An application, sponsored by Mr. F. T. Eyre and Mr. W. Cassels-Brown, for a donation of £ 3 3s to the Harbour Bridge Association to allow it to carryout a campaign to secure private enterprise to build the bridge was declined. “It would be a fairly enterprising firm,” commented the DeputyMayor, Mr. J. Hislop. The Deputy-Mayor stated that the No. 2 Omnibus Licensing Authority had remitted to the council the application to vary the Cheltenham bus route if residents in the area affected would meet the council next Wednesday. SUBSIDY ACCEPTED The offer of Cabinet to subsidise expenditure on capital works at the rate of £2 for £1 is to be taken advantage of immediately, and the money available from the Poppy Day funds, which, with Government subsidies, will amount to £2OO, is to be spent on the eastern footpath construction on the Victoria Road extension.

The council-in-committee recommended that an invitation from the Birkenhead. Council to send a deputation to the Hospital Board to demand “a major scheme of hospital construction on the North Shore,” be opposed, or. the ground that the time was not opportune. The committee had arrived at this opinion after hearing Mr. W. K. Howitt, tne North Shore representative on the board, who explained that in four or five years’ time the board could finance the building of a 40-bed hospital without increasing the hospital rate. Mr. F. T. Eyre: I want to oppose this. Everything on the North Shore seems to be premature. Mr. T. Walsh: Mr. Eyre will find that the agitation to get a hospital for the North Shore began ten years ago and has now been finalised. The Hospital Board has agreed to the policy. Unless we can show the board how to raise the money it is no use approaching it with deputations. The council received the Ferry Company’s official reply to demands made by the council and the Waitemata Chamber of Commerce for improvements to ferry services. It was agreed that fair and full consideration had been given all the.points raised.