PUKEKOHE'S LOAN POLL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 203, 25 August 1916, Page 2

PUKEKOHE'S LOAN POLL.

The Schemes Approved. A poll of ratepayers took place on Wednesday last on tbe proposal of the Pukekohe Borough Council to borrow a sum ot £12,000, distributed as follows: £SOOO for electric lighting, £4OOO for water supply, £2500 for roadmg and £SOO far first year's interest and sinking fond and contingencies. The result of the voting was:— Votes. Kor tbe loan 226 Against 10 Majority "for" 18(3 Informal votes 3 The tact that 269 votes were polled out of a total ot 505 names on the ratepayers' roll testified to a welcome revival of public interest in local affairs as well as to good organisation on the part of members of the Waterworks Committee of the Council, who were mainly responsible for the submission of tbe loan scheme to the ratepayers. The controversy that had arisen in regard to tbe water problem waa also practically silenced at the eleventh hour by an assurance being given to Mr Wm. Koulslon by the Waterworks Committee that it a substantially signed petition was presented to tbe Council asking for some Auckland engineering expert to be appointed to further verify the scheme as drafted the same would be acted' upon. Steps were taken by Mr W. Koulston to make this decision widely known, and that gentleman, id connection with Mr B. H. Andrew, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, were most assiduous in assisting to convey voters to the polling booth.