PUBLIC RESERVE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5288, 18 June 1928, Page 2

PUBLIC RESERVE.

ADDITION TO RAWITIROA. GENEROUS ACTION .OF VENDOR. -Ml A further valuable area of land has now been- added to the Rawhitiroa reserve, which was acquired by the Paeroa Borough Council some time ago. 8 At last Thursday’s -meeting of the Borough Council the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) reported that in response to an inquiry which he bad made, Mr H. R. Bush, of Thames, had advised his willingness to transfer an area of a. little over, three-quarters of an acre in the Rawhitiroa block to _the council at the original! cost to h'i,m, namely approximately £45. The Mayor said that the acquisition of the section would complete the purchase of tlie whole block which lay between the Paeroa tennis courts and the Ohinemuri River, w!ith ,a frontage to the Paeroa.Te Aroha main road of the entire from the traffic bridge to the boundary of Mr S. JHedge’s residence. There was also- approximately the same frontage to the unformed portion of Arney Street. The wlrole block contained nearjy seven acres, and it was a magnificent piece of level land situated (in a most convenient position, and .as, an tional recreation ground it should prove of great value to posterity. The section in question was of considerably greater value than the price at which it wa,s offered to the council.

The Mayor moved: “That the offer be accepted, and on behalf of the pebple of Paeroa this council record and express to Mr Bush its most sincere thanks for his generous aiid publicspirited offer.” Tlie resolution', which was seconded by Cr. H. J. Hare, was carried unanimously.