PETONE AFFAIES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 17

PETONE AFFAIES

MEETING OF BOROUGH COUNCIL

The fortnightly .meeting of the Pet'one- Borough Council was held last evening;-' '.*■'.'' ' ' ~v Tlie' i "JKorbkOrp Eatcpayera' Committee Jvras/granted permission to holi:;a. carnival on the Petone Beach, at Easter for the purpose of providing funds for improvements to the Korokoro School. It was decided to agree to a three days' traffic tally over the Kpb and Waitehetu Bridges for .thQ-,:purpose of. i.rrj.y4ng.at;a basis for >apportioning maintenanco, costs Ijetween .the V 'local bodies! '"/ ... *. ■ ■■'-'' >/■■ : It'was decided to ''prpseciite 'a'iatepayer wild had'not complied with i request from 'the council-.to ceaso the alleged. blocking of Loehy Street by stacking timber there. The council was for the first time asked to pay heavy traffic fees on "E" tracks, and after giving the matter consideration the account, for £30 15s. was passed for payment. ■ On the recommendation of tlie^ finance committee, it was resolved 'to

write off £616'16s Bd-Tates on properties whkh had reverted to the Crown owing to the refusal of the Government to pay other than special rates on its properties. ' "'' A sum of £146 5s 9d was also written off in regard to Native rates. Councillor.J. C. Burns reported that the subscribers and the income from tho- library had increased by from.'Bo per.,v.eenti. to 9Q. percent.,- and he^n behalf of the library.^ommittee, teeommended: -that i considetaiiott ba .r.lgiven, when the estiiaiates were being "framed to 'increasing the librarian's salarjv It tvas decided to give the librarian, discretionary power in regard.-to the i infliction of fines on persons Ovcrdua [with books.