WAIHI BEACH RENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4812, 18 February 1925, Page 2

WAIHI BEACH RENTS.

REDUCTION TO WAIHI RESIDENTS TIME LIMIT FIXED. The Waihi Beach Committee recommended the Borough Council at Thursday night’s meeting to set aside twelve sections on Block 6, Waihi Beach township reserve, for application by Waihi residents at a rental of £3 per annum, the lots to remain open for selection up to March 31, after which date the ordinary rate of £5 per annum be charged for those not taken. Cr. Busch said that if concessions were to be made the council should see to it that those acquiring lots were bona fide holders, and that they were not people who were buying and selling for personal gain. Cr. Butcher w!is inclined to oppotse tiie proposal, which did not appear to be fair to those who had taken up sections at £5. “There seems to be something at the bottom of this,” he concluded.

Cr. Robinson agreed large with what Cr. Busch had said about the trafficking in sections. This had certainly been going on, and he did not think it should be permitted. Generally speaking, he was not in favour of discriminating between parties in such matters.

Or. Busch, rising again, tsaid he thought .the whole residential area should be brought under the control of the council, and that holders of ■sections should be given the same privileges as the townspeople in voting at elections and in other directions. He wanted to know if anything in this direction had been done lately. The Mayor replied in the affirmative. and was followed by Cr. Walmsley who stated that when the Tauranga County Council transferred the portion of reserve within its jurisdiction to Waihi everything would be in readiness to take the final steps in the direction of legislation to give the Waihi Council complete control. Negotiations had been opened up, and he would suggest that they be facilitated. Already the Ohinemuri County Council had consented to the area within ibs boundary being controlled by the Waihi Council. Cr.. Butcher facetiously suggested that. Cr. Busch was anxious to place tiro Waihi Council in full control of the reserve so that those having sections there would be able to vote at' the forthcoming Borough Council election on the proposal to construct a light railway to'the Waihi Beach. A motion in favour of the committee’s recomniendation was then put to the meeting and carried.