NORTH DUNEDIN AMENITIES

Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 1

NORTH DUNEDIN AMENITIES

ANNUAL MEETING OF SOCIETY The annual meeting of the Dunedin North Amenities Society was held in the Leith Bowling Club’s pavilion last evening, Mr C. A. AVilson in the chair. Moving the adoption of the annual report and balance sheet, the Chairman reviewed the work ot the past year, and paid a.tribute to the work ■ of the secretary, and also to the sustained interest of members.—The report was adopted. The election of office-bearers resulted as follows:—President, Mr H. Rowley; vice-presidents, Messrs J. M 4 Farlan© and B. R. Ferguson; treasurer, Mr L. Sanderson; secretary, Mr Gray. New members of committee were elected as follows:—Mrs Munro and Messrs J. A. Moore and J. Lewisham _ The chairman stressed the need for a new bridge over the Leith in AArood•haugh, and said that it had beqn promised for so long that it was time the City Council did something to implement its policy. He thought that they should get _ something definite from the council on that subject, and also keep hammering away for a swimming pool, which he regarded as a necessity for the north end of the city. Messrs Duncan and Gray also spoke urging stronger advocacy of the district’s claims for a new bridge, and emphasising the dangerous character of the present structure in the event of a flood and also as a traffic trap. Mr Gray complained that in this matter the north end had been shelved and fobbed off for long enough. Mr A. IT. Allen said he knew little about the bridge proposal, but he believed that the AVorks Committee intended to have plans drawn up and to go ahead with the work next year. On the subject of a swimming pool for North Dunedin, he said he did not, see why that part of the city should have to And £SO before it could be promised a utility that other parts of the city had received from the council without making any financial contribution whatever. He would not advise them, however, to rely on the municipal baths loan of which there had been some talk because that proposal referred to new municipal baths to take the form of a centennial memorial. It would have to ' go before the ratepayers, and in any case the work could not be completed until 1940, so that they would have to wait another four years for their baths. He knew there was a baths reserve somewhere in North Dunedin, and if, as had been suggested, this reserve was earning revenue in the form of rents, he thought the district had a good case to offer if it asked that such revenue should be devoted to the purposes for which the baths reserve was set aside. The chairman thanked Mr Allen for his remarks. The meeting decided to forward expressions of thanks to Messrs J. AV. Munro, M.P., and M. Connelly, M.L.C., for their work in connection with the new post office facilities at the Gardens.