MIRAMAR BOROUGH COUNCIL.
. ADDRESS BY MR. A. B. POWNALL. .* 1 Mr. A. B. Pownalli a candidate > for tha vacancy on the Miraraar Borough Council, caused by the resignation, of Cr.ChaseMorris, addressed a meeting at P.obertshaw'a • rooms, Miraraar, last evening. •» Mr. Pownall said that, he was in favour of the cutting up of quiarter-acre. sections'at : • Miramar, provided that the drainage scheme was well under way before giving cffect to this. .This would induce further population ' to bear-the rates, and;lead to,further improvements beinE obtained; in the -borough. Now ' that the Council'.,ihad', the.- necessary. . funds for road improvements, the roads should be-taken in hand: in all parts of the .. borough at once. Improved lighting was apparently badly needed througliout the bor- , ougli, and the question of subsidising a ferry . company or further tramway , extension would be matters to be put before the 1 ratepayers , at. an early date.. He considered :that as he! was .entirely free, from .landed!.interests, . and free from all parties, '. the,! ratepayers would gain by returning him: The speaker 1 also referred to the desirableness of a Town . Hall at Miramar and . purchasing a steam roller. ,y
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 May 1908, Page 10
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187MIRAMAR BOROUGH COUNCIL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 May 1908, Page 10
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