TODAY’S LOAN POLL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 10

TODAY’S LOAN POLL

TRAMS TO AVONDALE SERVICE TO TOWNSHIP Today ratepayers throughout the Auckland Transport Board's district are voting on the proposal to raise a special loan of £58,400 for the purchase of land and the extension of the tramway service from Mount Albert to Avondale. The 64 pollingbooths throughout the city and suburbs opened their doors at 9 o’clock this morning, and voting will cease at six o’clock, this evening. The districts in which polling-booths are situated are: City, Mount Eden, Mount Albert, Newmarket, Onehunga, One Tree Hill, Mount Roskill, Mount Wellington, Panmure, and Ellerslie. A round of the booths this morning indicated that the poll would probably not be a heavy one, although it was expected that ratepayers in the Avondale district would vote substantially on the issue. The result of the poll is expected to be known before seven o’clock. The proposed extension will follow the New North Road, but the route by which Avondale will be approached has not yet been settled. The Transport Board officials have several alternative routes in mind, and state that, whatever course is taken, the trams will he brought actually into the township. Those entitled to vote are ratepayers of the Transport Board’s district, whose names appear on rolls of the various districts. In the city and the boroughs, a wife can vote if her husband’s name is on the roll, and likewise the husband, if the property is in the wife’s name. In road districts, the only person who can vote is the one whose name appears on the roll. No matter on how many rolls a person’s name appears, he or she can only vote once.