PAPAKURA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 351, 8 February 1918, Page 3

PAPAKURA.

(See also page 4.) TOWN BOARD BOUNDAEIES PROPOBED EXTENSION

A deputation from the Papakura Town Board, consisting of Messrs R. M. Gillespie (Chairman), and P. H. Holt, with the Clerk, Mr H. Wilson, were in attendance at yesterday's meeting of the Franklin County Council and presented a petition bearing 30 signatures of owners in support of the Board's proposed extension of its boundaries as authorised in the Washing-up Bill passed in the last session of Parliament The deputation asked for the Council to agree to the boundaries as set out on a plan. Mr Gillespie, speaking in support of petition, mentioned that the steps were being taken under the WashingUB Bill which gave the Town Board power to acquire another square mile of territory. The area proposed to be taken from the County consisted chiefly of residental sites and he urged that it was reasonable that rates now being paid in respect of them should be received by the Town Board. He suggested that the owners concerned were more closely connected with Papakura than with the County. The Chairman remarked that as far as the Council were concerned they had no wish to place any obstacle in th 9 way of the Board extending its area provided the boundary between the two bodies was an equitable one Mr Holt, in supporting the views expressed by Mr Gillespie, mentioned that it was probable before long that a water supply would be required for the town and as a good deal of the County land was in the heart of the township he regarded the proposal as set out in the petition warranted by circumstances.

Cr Lockwood enquired what area it was proposed to incorporate, to which Mr Gi'lespie replied about 262 acres.

Cr Lockwood then moved that a Committee should be set up consistyt of the Chairman, Crs Thomas ant. himself to inspect and report He expressed the opinion that a Commission should be appointed to consider the whole question as he had a decided objection to dual control by any local bodies. Local prejudices, said Cr Lockwood, were bound to come in and for that reason he urged that the Commission should consider the matter fully. Cr Wilcox seconded and suggested that a Commission should be appointed as soon as possible. The Chairman remarked that where a road formed a boundary be* tween two bodies friction was likely to arise and for that reason he £as not inclined to favour a roadVas a boundary. Mr Gillespie stated that the Board was prepared to fall in wifp the Council's views in every way in regard to boundary roa&. The motion was then it was agreed that the Committee should meet the Board at Papakttfca on Monday next. %

The existing school hours as ob-, served at Papakura and fixed by the local School Committee, viz., 8&& a.m. to 12 noon, are being found inconvenient by the parent* of scholars, more particularly in the case of those children attending from a distance, some even coming four miles. In many instance* the practice has been for the elder children to deliver supplies at the Creamery and to then return!borne prior to going to school, hut with studies starting at 8 -*iQ. o'clock and the Creamery not opening until 8 a.m. such is now f»un<l impossible. A fairly general wish is expressed that the hours as decided on by the headmaster last year, viz., 9 a.m. to 12..''0 p m , may be resorted to.