THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1923. STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4631, 28 November 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1923. STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

Our readers who perused the account of the special Borough Council meeting in these columns on Wednesday last, giving details of the various loan moneys allocated for street improvements, must surely have felt that the City Fathers were alive to the needs of Paeroa and had allotted the money to the bebt possible advantage. There is no gainsaying the fact that there is a vase amount of street ,Work urgently required to be done, but to carry this out a sum of £60,000' would be required, and at the present moment the full amount available for street improvements is lihe mofdest sum of £4OOO. Of the reading works that the Council has decided to carry out this summer very careful attention has been paid to see that such works done Out of loan, money should be of a permanent nature, or at least that the improvements will out-live the period of the loan—a term of 36%' years. This is a very important consideration to ratepayers, and it is very comforting to think that the loan money is to be spent so judiciously an - ] with so much forethought. The Council appears to have concentrated its energies on providing relief, as far as funds will permit, fo tlho'se residents who in the past have had little or no access to their homes. Past councils have made promises to various sections of the community with regard to footpath improvements, but very little has been done. When the present l loan money became available His Worship the Mayor and the Works Committee considered as many of the oh 1 promises as wa.s practicable AVhen allocating the money, and they should be commended for their endeavours to keep faith with the burgesses. On the face of the report of the meeting it would appear that Coronation

Street had been overlooked. However, this is not so, a,s a portion of the sum of £lBOO which has been appropriated for Normanby Road is being set aside, and in the event of a decision by the Government departments concerned not to have the of the proposed new railway station in HU! Street,, then the Council will immediately take the work .so badly needed to be done in Coronation Street in hand, thereby keeping faith with the ratepayers in that particular area. No doubt many ratepayers will feel that they have been left out of the good things that are going, but if they will look at matters in a reasonable light, and realise that the small sum of money available for street improvements is being spent toi the best advantage after very careful consideration, they will not only make matters happier for themselves, but will extend a little help and encouragement to the Mayor and councillors, who arc doing their utmost under a heavy handicap to improve the appearance of pur town and to generally make Paeroa a better and brighter town to live in.