PATEA BOROUGH COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1930, Page 6

PATEA BOROUGH COUNCIL

UNEMPLOYED RELIEF SCHEMES. The Mayor (Mr. F. Ramsbottom) presided at a special meeting of the Patea Borough Council convened to discuss unemployment relief measures and the erection of a fence to enclose the municipal buildings. Tree-planting at the Domain will be included in the schedule of relief works to' be placed before the Public Works inspecting engineer. It is intended to plant a shelter belt of trees approximately a chain wide to join the existing trees on the rifle range and Oxford Street to embrace the lake paddock and form a continuous shelter belt. The employment of married men will be recommended before single men who will probably find employment with the Public Works Department at Waitotara.

It. was. decided to communicate with Mr. Hermanson, of the Public Works Department, requesting him to make an appointment wit!? the council to finalise v matters regarding the proposed metalling of the .Heads Road and back streets. The Heads- Road, it was pointed out, had never been formed and work done on it would, be new work and not maintenance. -/-The road from the. town hall to the. Hospital Road, which formed part of the stock route, was another example. It was decided that, a road committee comprising-, .the engineer, streets supervisor and- foreman meet Mr. Hermansen and.go over the work suggested, Mr. Chrjstensen stressed the necessity for enclosing the. library and Plum ket rooms.: with a fence that would still further .enhance the. beauty of the buildings.-Pa-tea’s public buildings could be made->Very attractive with shrubs, etc., and ho considered a brick fence would be in keeping with the architectural style. . He would recommend that the work, be put in hand forthwith. Suggestions in various, designs in brick were submitted with prices and were placed on the table. No design quite coincided with the council’s requirements. Messrs. Carey and Naismith were appointed a committee to. go into details of erecting a 3ft. fence in brick. o PATEA PERSONALS. Mrs. F. Locker has returned to Patea. Mr. J. 80-urke is gravely ill at the Patea hospital