PATEA BOROUGH COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1933, Page 3

PATEA BOROUGH COUNCIL

ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEMORIAL.

LOAN CONVERSIONS PROCEEDING.

There was a full attendance of councillors at the monthly meeting of the Patea Borough Council last night. The Mayor (Mr. F. Ramsbottom) presided. A deputation of eight Maoris asked that the memorial to Turi be unveiled (if completed) not later than the first week in August and that the Governor-General be asked to perform the ceremony. Permission was granted to accommodate a Maori party under canvas on Mr. J. Taiaroa’s property and electric lighting will be made available. The Mayor said the council would communicate with the Governor-General and the date agreed upon by His Excellency was to finalise the matter.

The Mayor of Hawera (Mr. J. E. Campbell) notified accepting the council’s invitation to attend the unveiling. The construction plan of new sheds in the borough yard to accommodate the council’s plant and stock was approved.

The town clerk reported that more each year were taking advantage of the rate concession and the present position was very satisfactory. The Patea relief workers were granted free lighting at their distributing depot. The cost of the municipal election was £24 16s 9d, the town clerk reported. A firm of financial brokers advised the council of its intention of sending a representative to Patea to discuss the whole proposed scheme of loan conversion. The council would assume no liability, the letter stated, unless the scheme was adopted. The letter was formally received. The Local Government Loans Board submitted the local bodies loan conversion proposals. Cr. Christensen said that although the scheme was extremely complicated considerable benefit would result to all local bodies.

The assistance of a Wellington firm in handling the preliminary work of the conversion of Patea’s loan had already expedited the borough’s business, the Mayor stated. Suitable covering for the floors of the rooms above the municipal offices to eliminate noise was left to the engineer to procure. The streets supervisor (Cr. F. Naismith) reported that Gloucester, Suffolk, Rutland, Surrey, Norfolk, Essex, Stafford, Middlesex, Bedford and Egmont Streets were chipped and cleaned. Gorse and lupin were grubbed in various ; streets. Silver poplars have been cut in Middlesex Street. The pound paddock was grubbed of all noxious weeds. Hedges were cut at the corner of Rutland and Egmont Streets and in Middlesex Street. Concrete kerbs were laid in Lincoln, Stafford, Egmont and Meredith Streets to Victoria Street. . Pit metal was used to patch Essex, Warwick, Livingstone, Hadfield and Norfolk Streets. Kent Street and the lower end of Cornwall Street were reformed. Tarring was done in Egmont Street. The electrical engineer (Mr. J. O. Cunningham) reported that the figures for the month with June figures of last year in parentheses were: Hydro, 15,300 (9900), diesel, 1100 (nil); bulk,. 28,939 (32,989); total units, 45,339 (42,889), an increase of 4250 units or 10 per cent. The units generated by the Diesel were in connection with the change-over from the temporary sub-station to the permanent structure. The hydro station was found to be in a satisfactory state on each visit. Relief labour was employed for a day concreting a section of the pipe line adjacent to the surge chamber which had been washed out. An interruption of 20 minutes occurred in the bulk supply. Power was restored from Patea s plant as sooni as the attendant could reach the station, the bulk power -being restored a short time later Thirty chains of single-phase service line was also erected to give supply to two purnp motors. Temporary services, for welding at the bridge and on the wharf were erected. The last section of the area vzas being rewired. Water pumped showed a decrease of 164,600 gallons and 1111 units. It was intended to pump out the settling tank one day during the present month to examine the suction pipe. Air was entering the main at some point. All dead ends of the mains and all hydrants were cleared of any accumulation of silt.