TO STAY THE SEA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2853, 18 August 1916, Page 6

TO STAY THE SEA

A MIRAMAR UNDERTAKING

LOAN OF £4500 PROPOSED

The Miramar Borough Council met last evening. Tho Mayor (Mr. F. Townsend) presided. There wcro present also, Councillors Underwood, Tracy, Pollock, Hawthorn, and Telford. The Borough Engineer submitted a report respcotmg the Marino Parade. He said that Mr. Furkctt, engineer, liad made a report which included a scheme to prevent erosion. The borough engineer thouglit tho best way to deal with the matter would be to first build groynes and later build tho retaining wall upon the gravel, etc., hold by the groynes. Tho work would cost: ' /

V Repair of 'existing wall and buttresses ' 140 Rock to protect same 440 Two temporary groynes of tira.bcr 100 Eight permanent groynes of concrete 1,440 Rock wall ; 650 Filling and roadway behind wall 360 Water main and sewer 136 Concreto coping on wall 280 10 per ccnt. for contingencies 344

Total 3,790 The expenditure would bo spread over, say, three years: First year, repair and protection of existing wall and two timber groynes •••• £748 Second year, concrete groynes... £1584 Third year, rubble wall, filling, water main, sewer, and coping £1458 However!' should tho first two experimental -groynes provo efficient within a few months from date of completion, it would be necessary to the remaining groynes without delay. The acting-treasurer reported that were the work to ho done out of the District Fund, the bank overdraft would need to be raised above the legal limit.' Therefore, it would be necessary to raise a loan for tho work. Allowing 5$ per cent, for interest actr I per cent, for sinking fund, the annual charges on'a loan of £3800 would be £238. To provide this' a rate of id. in the £ would have to be levied on the whole of tho rateable property in the borough. Should it bo considered that the area to tho south and east of Awa and Seatoun Height Roads respectively should be a special rating area for this loan, it would be necessary to levy a rate of |d. in the £ on this area, the unimproved value of which was £91,000. ' The Mavor stated that the work was urgent, and, after discussion, it was resolved, on the motion of Councillors Hawthorn and Pollock, that a special loan; of £4500 should be raised, and that a rate should be struck over the whole of the borough. -It was also decided that a poll of the ratepayers should bo taken..-