HATAITAI RATEPAYERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1107, 21 April 1911, Page 5

HATAITAI RATEPAYERS.

4 FIRST 'ANNUAL MEETING. '\ The first annual meeting of tho Hataitai Municipal Electors' Association was held at tho Bowling Club's Pavilion, Hatnitai, last night. Mr. Leigh Hunt, tho president, was in tho chair, and thero were about i!> persons present. The annual report has the following, inter alia: —"Following the directions given at tho last general meeting held in April, 1010, your committee have let no opportunity pass in endeavouring to obtain belter means of aces.-s to the city. Two ulasa deputations were organised, _ which waited on (lie Mayor ami City Council. The first deputation was jointly made with tha Kilbirnic mid Roseneath Associations as the outcome of a resolution passed at a. meeting of the Kilbirnic and llataitaiAssociations, which unanimously requested Ihe city authorities to construct a luniiol on the nearest direct routo to Couftciiay Place. The position now, is that the City Council have been offered, at. a very reasonable figure, the necessary land at liixon Grove,i.and the City Engineer has been asked to make a report oil the matter. There can be no question but that a tunnel at a point north of the present one will serve well all the districts to the south aS well as lliltaitai. 11l addition to these deputations, in cm km of the committee liava waited 611 the civic authorities on many occasions. " Efforts were unsuccessfully mado to'induce fie Educajion Board to purchase lnnd in Hataitai for the purpose of a school. Your coiumitteo has had several communications with tho civic authorities relative to the state of Rata Road, and promises were made that I the street would be put in good repair some months ago. In reply to a letter sent by your committee (he City Council authorities advise that nil new roads have (p bo under the conditions approved by tho council. The original roads of tho district ivero under agreement with tho old Melrose Council, hence it is that no channelling or asphalting lias been done. Arnwa Road has, in response to our roquest, been put in good order." Tho balance-sheet for the year shows the receipts to bo in excess 'of the expMlditure. The election of officers resulted as foU lows:—President, Mr. Ijoigli Hunt; vicepresidents, Messrs. Fleming, Monro, and t-eville; commitfv, Messrs, Bayfield Kershaw. Miicliell, M Goldriek, M Gnire, Penny, Cheeseman! secretary, Mr, J. L. Arcus'; auditor, Mr. Seville. At tho request of the meeting Mr. Leigh Hunt, a candidate for nimiicitnl honours, briefly outlined his platform. He touched on the questions of imiiii-' cipal markets, (he tramwavs. milk dono Is, tho provision of a giods yard at le Aro Railway Station, and the possible extension of the railway in (he direo- "£!" , Miramar, town planning, the reafforestation of town bolts, and' a muni* cipal superannuation schcme.