Took Taxi Home To Ensure Parking Place

Chronicle (Levin), 9 November 1949, Page 4

Took Taxi Home To Ensure Parking Place

How he had heard instances- of. - people taking taxis home on Tuesdays and Fridays to ensure a parking puace for their car, which bhey left m town for the full day, was mentioned by a councillor at Monday night's meeting of the Levin Borough Council. Cr. A. J. H. Allen first raised the question of parking when he urged that bays be " provided for use by business people in the right-of-way behind the shops in Oxford Street backing on to the railway line. This would leave bays available for the public in Oxford Street. It was ■ decide'd to refer the question to the works committee xor consideration. Mention was also made of the advisabi-ity oi instituting a two-hour parking restriction in Oxford Street, but Ihis was not pursued further. The Housing Construction Department wrote stating that the question of' erefeting flats for pensioners' in Levin had been referred to the State Advances Corporation for consideration. The district building controller forwarded consent for the use of 10 tons of cement for the extensions to the swimming baths. The Mayor,' Mr. H. B. Burdekin, commented that he "was pleased to receive the letter and suggested that the next step should be a meeting between the swimming club -officials and the council's works committee to go into the future plans. Nothing was likely to be done to the baths until after the season closed. The matter was referred to the committee. The Levin and District Early Settlers' Association wrote asking that a reduction be made in the rent paid for the social hall for its . re-union on October 1 last.

The application was decimed on the ground that the council had an obligation to the ratepayers, and that if concessions were given on the fixed rate then the renovations would never be paid for. The vote against the decision, however, was a very close one of five to four, the minority maintaining that in the cass of the association a reduction should be made. A letter from the Upper Hutt Borough Council sought Levin's support to a proposal that hospital rating should be assessed on a population basis rather than on either a land or capital value basis. The council considered that there was merit in the suggestion, but that a snap vote would be unwise. Councillors felt they would like time to think over the suggestion. The -decision was deferred. Regarding the footpath construction in subdivisions which the council was holding the money pending the lifting of the restrictions on cement, the council decided to proceed with the calling of tenders for the work, allowing construction to proceed using asphaltic or concrete methods. The council referred to the works committee with power to act a suggestion that the construction of a footpath on the western side of Chamberlain Slreet be proceede'd with. The provision of -a footpath on the southern side of Manchester Street and the grading of the sides of the street were referred to the estimates committee for 1 next year. Comment on the excellent condition of the Public Gardens was forthcoming and it was debided that the council write to the gardener congratulating him on his work.