OLD SHOW GROUNDS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 2, Issue 140, 28 October 1913, Page 4

OLD SHOW GROUNDS.

And The Roading Question.

Offer By The Society.

At WedneEdiy's meeting of the Borough Council the following letter was read from the secretary of the Frankliii A. and P. Society:—"l 8m instructed by my committee to respectfully request that you place before your Council for their consideration the following resolution passed at a meeting of the Executive of tte Franklin A. and P. Society"Tnat in the event o; this Society requiring to survey into sections and to put in ttie necesiary reads on the block of land known as the Showgrounds, and abutting fcidinborough and Hall streets, would the Council accept such roads as may be required if constructed under the following specifications: Read centre to be properly graded and formed 36 feet wide, footpath on each Bids 15 feet wide, centre of road to b2 laid with scoria 14 feet wide ard to be 8 inches deep, footpaths to have chips laid 4 feet wide and 2 inches deep, the Council to supply scoria, the society to bear coat. If such roads would be accepted the society guarantees ta carry cut same if such reads are required at any future date." Cr Pollock: What dots it mean? Are they prepared to go on with the roadß uow, or are they going to get our consent and then barg it up? They'll have to fall in with everybody else. Cr Hamilton: The Show Committee want to know what you require.

Cr Bilkey: We want something a good deal better than that.

A discussion then arose as to whether a committee should be set up to decide what was required from the A. and P. Society only or from all lendowners, Crs Paltetboii and Hurley declining to act on a committee which dealt only with the showgrounCs. Cr Pollock moved, That Crs Abbott, Hurley and Comrie be a committee io draw up a report as to the formation required for all new roads.

Cr Patterson seconded the rasolution.

Cr Hamilton considered the offer a fair one. If the Council did not accept the society would cut up the Edinborough street frontages and sell the back in a blcck. A councillor: All the less roads to keep up, then. The motion was then put and carried.