OTOROHANGA AFFAIRS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4042, 2 May 1938, Page 8

OTOROHANGA AFFAIRS

MEETING OF TOWN BOARD. £lO,OOO LOAN APPROVED. (Our Resident Representative.) The Otorohanga Town Board held its monthly meeting on Wednesday evening, when there were present Commissioners F. O. R. Phillips (chairman), C. Jackson, A. J. McCready, R. T. Rhodes, H. E. Lawrence and G. B. Davis, town clerk. The Bank of New Zealand advised that the Board’s application for an overdraft limit of £lOOO, on general account, had been approved. The Local Government Loans Board has approved of the £lO,OOO loan for sewerage reticulation of the town. The poll of the’ ratepayers will be held in due course. A condition of the sanction to the loan is that the final plans and specifications in connection with the scheme are to be submitted to and approved by the Public Works Department prior to the work being commenced. A suitably qualified consulting engineer will be appointed to the work. The Commissioner of Taxes wrote requesting a list of the debenture holders in the Board’s conversion loan. This will be forwarded to the Tax Department. The Main Highways Board, advised that after recently considering the matter of its subsidy for highway bridging, it has been decided to increase the subsidy rate to £3 for £1 as from April Ist, 1938. The increased subsidy will apply to new bridging commenced after that date and also to the completion of bridges already started but only in respect of work carried out after April Ist. In special cases where a £3 for £l, or higher subsidy, may have been approved, there will be no further increase in such rate. Application for further taxi service licenses were held over for further consideration. The secretary of the Otorohanga Rugby Football Sub-union applied for the use of the Island Reserve during the playing season. This was granted The local hockey clubs (men and girls) were also granted the use of the recreation reserve on the same terms as last year. The divisional secretary of St. John Ambulance Brigade applied for, and was granted, the use of a room in the Municipal Buildings on each Thursday evening during the winter months. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company wrote stating that owing to an increased demand for petrol for high compression cars, they applied to the Board for a permit to install an additional pump in Ballance Street. This was granted on the usual conditions.