BROOKLYN AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 17

BROOKLYN AFFAIRS

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The quarterly meeting of,the Brooklyn District Municipal Electors' Association was held last night in Waldie's Hall, with an attendance of fifteen electors, Mr. T. Graham presiding.

The chairman referred to the improvements in street corners, footpaths, and streets needed badly, and said that on a recent visit the Mayor, (Mr. G. A. Troup) had promised to look into these matters himself in January on the spot.

Mr.: J. I. Goldsmith referred to the need for tennis courts for Brooklyn. At present the school courts were being used iby residents, whereas they should be for the use of the children. There was a sum of £200 left over from the £1250 raised by the council, one of the special objects of which was play areas. The suggestion had been made to the Mayor that tennis courts, croquet lawns, and a bowling green should be built at the top of Central Park. Two years ago the idea ihad been approved if the association would find half the money, and the Mayor saw no objection to it on the conditions named. i

Mr. Slade said it was three or four years' since plans had been prepared for tennis courts, etc., in Central Park. These might prove useful. He thought the extra money needed could be raised by residents, and the whole project, with the funds in hjanii, was now feasible.

Mr. H. Wright, the chairman, and secretary (Mr. W. Petty) were appointed delegates to meet the school committee in regard to the Echool grounds improvement carnival, which it was thought would be well postponed until the winter. Members were of the. opinion that the association should support the carnival only for school grounds improvements, and not for the picnic. The rules of the association were revised seriatota.

Messrs. H. Wright and G. Slade were appointed additional memberß of the committee.

Mr Waldie suggested that baths in Central Park would be of great benefit to the school children of Brooklyn, but Mr. Goldsmith remarked that the Mayor had stated that existing fresh water baths did not pay, and that fresh applications would riot be likely to meet with favour. Mr. Slade said that once there had been £800 on the estimate* for bathe, but it :had been-Tpped off long ago. '- A member-suggested that some unemployment, relief funds might well be expendedi pn; the improvement of Laura street.- -S'V&X'-j ,-.-. .. . Mr. TVrigaif referred to the state ol Asquith. terrace-aad Coolidge street, and recalled :tKs-fact that what little the Works Committee had done was largely removed by? recent rains. The streets were impassable to perambulators. A Member: "That is important. (Laughter.) '■ The lack of, public telephones on the western hill was referred to by Mr. Gifford, who said that one was needed m Hapuka street^ Additional telephones had been put in, but where there were already others, :Sand it was decided to suggest that the- Post and Telegraph Department should} consult the association as to the needed sites when further telephones were to*e put in. 1 Mr.'Gifford said that when the money was first raised for paving, Ohiro road was specified as one of the works, but the footpath was still not done. Minimum fares at rush hours on Brooklyn trams were suggested by Mr. Wright, in view of the crowded state of the cars up to Aro street. Mr. Gifford said that one tram to town had to take all those who came out in four, during the .dinner hour traffic.