CIVIC LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 125, 24 February 1928, Page 16

CIVIC LEAGUE

4. MEETING OF COUNCIL. 'J'.'ie first meeting of the council of the Civic League for this year was held on Monday evening, the newly-elected president. Mr. J. R. Wallace, presiding. Two letters were received from the Northland Association. The first dealt with footpath improvements required in various districts. It was decided that the president and the secretary should consult the chairman of the City Council Works Committee. Councillor 11. D. Bennett,' with reference to the carrying out of such works and the principle on which the order of procedure was arranged. The other letter dealt with the "fly nuisance." and offered a suggestion for its abatement. It was left to Mr. Wallace and Mr. A. L. Anfel to get in touch with the authorities on the question. Mr. Cable, tramway and lighting manager. having been interviewed with reference to a light at old Grosvenor corner, Wallace Street, wrote supplying information as to what was intended to be done in that locality. It was left to the secretary, with Mrs. E. J. Moore, to consult Mr. Cable further later on. The league having offered a suggestion for the safeguarding of dangerous nortions of roadway, particularly on the high levels, the town clerk replied that a special fence known as the "Page Hiway Guard,’’ was being tried at Evans Bay Road, and if this proved satisfactory it was intended to erect similar fences at other specially dangerous points in the city.

At the request of the Island Bay Association and others, the officers, it was stated, had consulted the Mayor and urged the need for tar and sanding the wood blocks in Adelaide Road and Jervois Quay. The Mayor agreed that this was urgently required. Mr. B. C. Cull, who has acted as assistant secretary to the league for feur years, wrote intimating that owing to nressure of other business he did not wish to seek reappointment this year. It was resolved: “That Mr. Cull’s retirement be received with regret, and a special letter of thanks for his service be eent to him.” The secretary reported that he lad interviewed tlx? chairman of the City Council By-laws Committee (Councillor Buckie). in connection with the enforcement of the one-way traffic by-law. The chairman undertook to consult the city solicitor with the view of having the public adequately protected. The questions of unemployment and the bus transport services of the city were commented on by several members, and it was decided to arrange for a special meeting to consider these two subjects alone. Mesdamps K. Preston and E. J. Moore, Messrs. W. A. Andrews, S. E. Lambert, Phillip Myers, F. W. Moore, W. S. Dri.ce, H. R. tSearle, M. S. Galloway, and J. Meltzer were .elected members <kf the executive for the year. The foregoing ten members, with the officers, Messrs. J. N. Wallace. A. Macintosh. F. W. Downs, A. C. Blake, J. H. Burgoyne Thomas, J. H. Whittaker, Thomas Gray, and the secretary, constitute the full executive. By request, Mr. F. W. Downs reported as the league’s delegate on the Wellington War Memorial Committee, with special reference to the agitation in tl.e Press over the question of site, and Mr. Hurst Seagar’s recent report. On the motion of Mr. Blake, it was resolved: “That the league supports the War Memorial Committee in its work, and expresses its confidence in its delegate.”