REQUESTS TO BOARD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 202, 11 September 1937, Page 4

REQUESTS TO BOARD

Havelock Businessmen Seek Improvements A LENGTHY LIST A request for & fairly lengthy list of improvements to be made in the business area of Havelock North was made to the Havelock North Town Board at its monthly meeting last eveaing by the newly-formed Havelock North Businessmen's Club. Among other things, the club asked for the cleaning of the water-tables which, it said, were in a filthy condition, the removal of the taxi-stand and a reduction in the size of the bus stand, the provision of rubbish receptacles, and the sweeping of the road regularly. The' request resulted in a lengthy discussion, the greater portion of which was taken in committee. "The provision of rubbish xeceptacie has beeu tried in Hastings and Napier, but they have both down away with it," romarked Mr A. Christie. "So far as the bus stand is conthat the board appreciated its point of view, and if the club would sea that the Town Board's regulations regarding the depositing of rubbish were complied with it would do its best to meet their requirements, It was decided to reply to the club eerned ,we are prepared to reduce this to half its present length," the board's reply stated, "and as far as the taxistand is concerned, it will be made an jnstruction that not more than one car shall be stood at a time opposite the right-of-way." The Transport Department, in a lctter received by the board, pointed out that the large number of deaths from aceidents called for greater publieity to bring home the need for greater caution. Safety propaganda was an urgent need, and the department asked for the co-operation of the board in displaying posters on • publie buildings and in other publie places. The board replied that it could display 12 of the. posters suggested. ' 'The cause of 90 per cent. of these fatalities is speed aiid nothing else," reraarked Mr J. J. Niraon.