MATAMATA TOWN BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18405, 12 August 1931, Page 3

MATAMATA TOWN BOARD.

FORTNIGHTLY MEETING. At the fortnightly meeting ot the Board Commissioner J. Buchanan presided. Members of the Board made an inspection of the Town Hall floor, and it was decided that on no account are steel skates to be used in future; also that the lessee be required to deposit £lO as a guarantee that the floor will be left in good order when the skating season is over.

The Treasury Department notified that the rate of Interest which may be paid on future loan money raised shall not exceed 5 per cent unless a higher rate is prescribed pursuant to certain statutory authority. The Junior High School Committee wrote in reference to the children boarding the lorries in front of the school. In wet weather the drivers were afraid to leave the bitumen and if two other vehicles were passing at the same time a danger was created.—Commissioners Tong, Griffiths and Stanley were appointed a committee to inspect with power to act.

The clerk submitted a detailed account of\kerbing and channelling in various streets and the cost per chain to each property holder. The report of the sub-committee set up to inspect the streets was adopted. Tawa, Smith, and Tainui Streets, Burwood and Farmers’ roads need attention. Suggestions were made for disposing of stormwater frpm Farmers’ Road; also for kerbing and channelling Western and Tainui Streets. In future all crossings on works already authorised will be done by the board’s employees and charged to the frontage holder on the basis that the Board pays half the cost as on kerbing and channelling, the frontage holder to pay the balance.