KARAKA ROADING LOAN

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 408, 10 September 1918, Page 4

KARAKA ROADING LOAN

Large Favourable Vote

A sweeping majority in favour of the proposal of the Franklin County Council to raise a loan of £27,000 for metalling the main roads in the Earaka and Waiau Fa districts was secured at the poll taken last Friday of ratepayers of the special rating area as' defined in the scheme. On Friday night the returns from the polling-booth at Te Hehi, Karaka, were not forthcoming but despite the possibility that as at the Road Board office, Earaka, a majority of votes might have been cast there adverse to the loan, its success seemed assured inasmuch as the totals then stood at 128 votes "for" and 38 "against" or far in excess of the three-fifths majority necessary to carry the proposal. However, when the Te Hihi figures were available on Saturday it was found that the whole of the 51 votes polled there were favourable to the loan without a single vote in the negative. The loan, subject to the official count now in progress, was therefore approved of by 179 votes "for" to 38 "against.' The figures at the different polling booths were as follows : Votes Polling Booth. For. Against Pukekohe 10 Auckland 28 10 Waiau Pa 35 Patumahoe 36 Road Board Office, Earaka 19 28 Te Hihi, Earaka 51 - Totals 179 38