CITY IMPROVEMENT WORKS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 114, 7 February 1919, Page 6

CITY IMPROVEMENT WORKS

A JIAYpRAL STATEMENT. During question time at the City Council meeting last evening Councillor E. A, Wright asked in respect to necessary city works, whether the Mayor proposed, in view of the coming election, to bring down loan proposals to enable such works to be undertaken. He said that tho city had'been marking time for a long time. The Mayor stated that the publio health report, which would bo brought down at the next meeting, would \deal with tho congestion of the city and the conditions of living generally. Such big civic questions, he could assure tho council, would involve a loan proposal. Personally ho was prepared to submit his old loan proposals which had been reviewed so favourably. Councillor J. E. Fitzgerald referred to tho stagnation of the last toil years, and reminded the councillors that they had all promised to do things which had not been done. He referred to our roads as the most wretched in New; Zealand, and finally asked the Mayor if he did not think tho city had suffered through neglect by reason.of the City Engineer having been appointed tramways manager. The Mayor replied that labour had been scarce and material unprocurable, but 'the city had not. been neglected at all, and one of the city's best assets had been the placing of Mr. Morton in charge of the trams. (Hear, hear.) The time had arrived when his department (tho Engineer's) would have to bo strengthened, and he favoured securing good mon one for inside and one for outside control. But without any reservation whatever, he said that tho city had not suffered by the association of the City Engineer with the tramways,

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