BOROUGH COUNCIL

Waipa Post, Volume 46, Issue 3305, 21 March 1933, Page 5

BOROUGH COUNCIL

COUNCIL MEETING.

VARIOUS MATTERS DEALT - ; WITH. !

His "Worship the Mayor, Mr C. G. Downes, presided at the fortnightly meeting of Te Awamutu Borough Council on Monday evening, and also present were Crs'G. A. Empson, L, G. Armstrong, H. C. Rainey, F- J. Gilbert, A. Brown, and.W. C. Savill. . The town clerk (Mr D. Bockett) and the foreman (Mr R. H. Close) were in attendance. ~n ■ Leave of absence was granted Ors W. J. North and J. G. B. Gifford. . The Under-Secretary, Department of Lands and Survey, wrote re library sites, allotments 100 and 154: "These areas are, as you know, library site reserves vested in the Council; out now that the acquisition of Te Awamutu Club's property has been approved it would appear desirable .J» consider whether allotments 100 ana 154 should be allowed to * e ™ am library site reserves or whether sne reservation over them should oe changed to a more appropriate purpose. I should be glad to receive the Council's views on this matter in due course."—Consideration deferred. The borough solicitors wrote re lease of a section originally held Dy the late Mr T. Spear, and now held in the names of J. M. and T. Spear.— Approved and duly signed. / Mr H. Alan Bell, Cambridge, advised that he intends to offer himselt again as a candidate for the Waikato Hospital Board as representing the i combined boroughs of Cambridge, ie Awamutu, Morrinsville, and Te Aroha. He claimed that the hospital was the most efficient and run at the lowest cost per bed of all the large hospitals in the Dominioh.-^Received. Mr W, D. iR. McCurdie wrote re the proposed exchange of land_ between the Council and Messrs Miller Bros.' inside the borough catchment area< on Pirongia mountain. He considered that the Council should not part with any of its land. The Mayor explained the position, saying he had had the idea that an area of land included in the boroughi s reserve was not needed, but Mr McCurdie had inspected the locality and was definitely opposed to the proP °Cr Gilbert said all councillors should personally inspect the locality and knew too little about it. , ' , The Mayor commented that tnat should be a matter for the incoming Council. • ~ , , -._ Mr McCurdie is to be thanked for his practical help and advice, and the project will not be gone on with. Nine carriers operating in the district urged the necessity for a loading stage for sheep at/the municipal sale yards. "The present loading stage for pigs is wholly unsuitable for loading sheep, insomuch that the congestion that is occurring every Thursday simply means that carriers who have sheep to load have to load them over the side of the sheep pens, as the pigloading stage is always fu% occupied. We would appreciate a loading stage at the north end of the sheep The Mayor said representations had been made to him some time ago by the auctioneers, and he had Te &\ e( l that nothing could be done before 31st March. .. Cr Brown said there was congestion at the pig pens at recent sales. The matter w.a}s referred to the works committee. .Te Kuiti Borough Council wrote asking for particulars of the cost of municipal baths, as Te Kuiti had under consideration a proposal to establish 'a municipal swimming bath. Referred to clerk. Cr Armstrong referred to the need for defining street crossings more clearly, so that pedestrians would be less liable to accident. At present pedestrians crossed the streets at all angles, and thus contributed towards responsibility for accident. Other towns had broad white lines showing crossing places, and motorists took special care when approaching them. The same thing was needed in Te Awamutu, and children and others be urged to make use of such places to cross the streets'. The Mayor approved, and said he had noticed provision was made in other towns. iPedestrians were criticised for lack of care in crossing streets. Cr Savill said the crossings would have to be from near street intersections, for often all other parts of the kerbing were lined with parked cars, and children especially dashed out from behind cars and hazarded a run across a street amid the traffic. It was decided to have white lines provided att the principal corners, and to ask the school teachers to impress observance of traffic regulations upon children, especially the little ones.