“NOT FOR ADVERTISING"

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 10

“NOT FOR ADVERTISING"

STREETS IN DEVONPORT QUARRYING AT RANGITOTO “Our streets are not for advertising purposes.” remarked Air. J. Hisl©P» Deputy-Alayor of Devonport. when, on the motion of Mr. T. Walsh, the borough council last evening was unanimous in declining the of «.n advertising firm to erect hoardings m the main streets. . Donations of £2 2s each were ma « to the Labour Day Committee for ns sports fund, and to the Society *" the Protection of Women and Children. When a donation was requested I'* the fund to build a gymnasium at t ! <- Takapuna Grammar School. Mr. Hjsk*p said the expenditure of .€2.000 on . * gymnasium was not warranted at t e present time. MODERNISING OF BUILDINGS. Messrs. Hi slop and C. M. Browne will repr nt the council at a conferencc co. vened by the Modernisms of Buildings Promotion Sociot>. Mr. H. H. Watkins, engineer to m Auckland Drainage Board, replying * a council communication, stated ‘‘ his duties to the board would not P* * mit him to make a report on the - row Neck sewer outfall just now. - the request of the Health Department officials, he was dealing in his ral report with all sewage from the North Shore, and he dia » want to deal in individual cases the North Shore in advance. The town clerk reported that f 7 e Monday he had been informed oy « engineer that a party of men " er * * v moving stone from the Islington • side of Rangitoto Island. ” 0 f placed the question in the hand 3 the police, who had learned that * party was working for a firm v * 14 formorlv had a licence to qtiarrj the island, bur had terminated bers of the council repeated their tention to stop all quarrying on