PENINSULA AFFAIRS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 455, 12 August 1919, Page 2

PENINSULA AFFAIRS.

Proposed Loan, £IO,OOO. New Hall. Particulars of the wishes of the ratepayers in respect to the expenditure of the proposed loan of £IO,OOO for the roading of the Peninsula were received at the Franklin County Council meeting on Thursday, when the Secretary for the ratepayers (Mr F. A Hare ; mbe), advised as follows : That one-thud of all monies procured be expended on the Te Tora wharf ro.id, as from Murray's co ner to the wharf. One-third on the top Kolie Kohe road, and Cooper's road, the latter road being defined as that from Mil! ray's corner to the main roid coming from the cemetery. The top road is from Jus. McEwen's to Win, Douglas'. One-third on lower Kohe K'lie road and Ponsford Road, as follows : £2OO on Ponsford's Road ; £2OO on Rangiiiu (abutting Recall's property) ; tlio balance on lower K<he Kohe (the proposed main road to Awhitu, and on portions not provided for under the G-.verr.ment grant), as from the bridge at the foot of Harvey's Hill, to Liver's bridge, abutting Rangiriri i Ponsford's road is from biidgetoß McEwen's). The ratepayersalso'n guested that the Council alter the [ireson. sub division of the riding known as No. 5 sub division, to the Eduction Board fchool area boundary. And finally, the ra'opayers wished the above stated allue.uious to stand, whether the subsidy was secured or not. In any case it was hoped that sufficient money would be available to pay for the shelling of at least a portion of he wharf road

The I'ublic Trustee, in a letter to the Council, advised that owing to heavy commitments, lio could not entertain the Council's application for £IO,OOO loan. Ho advised a ro newal in April Tim chairman (Mr W. Claud Motion), moved th t in the event of the £.!'.,000 Paerata loan being turned down by the raptoavers, the Public Ti ustee be asked to transf. r this grant to (he Peninsula Also, in that event the Chairman, Cr Short, the engineer ahd tlie eh rlc push th • matter forward. The chairman remarked that should this loan he successful, there-would, with the subsidy, be about £"20,000 to be spent within two years, and that a f no greater cost to th" ratepayers than they we:o i.or raying for their roads. It was really arnazisg, a councillor rem. iked, how a lot of petty squabbling and ouinbliig about past affairs of no great importhad blinded some of die ratepayers to the value, of this splendid business proposition. Fonuna'uly, the ratepayers now undevsto id the position clearly. I [A 1.1. SITE The Secretary of the Kohokohe Hall Committee (Mr F A Harcombe) asked f<v the Council's approval of '.he exchange of certain land, and partly the sale >i them, t > permit of th*' no of a c«r\ ra! site, ( worth £'!'>) now on Mr Gil! .:t's property, for the the building. The clerk smd he did not know of any po .er tin' Council possessed to grant the leas.- at a " peppercorn rental," but an exclnnge might he arranged. The chiinirm said th : f .rmalities required to oln- ;i > the mails would cost more than to buy tho sites, though, as Or Short said, tho roads wore of no use. Cr Thomas lot mora inly remarked that Cr Shoit ■ ould provide £'2'i out ; of the tiding • '.' os for iho site, hut the Infer whs '.. -t hn\ ing any. The ma 1 tor ..as finally left to Or Shorn to i-oiii' :■ with the sellers. <Y II >Vi!r i.ldod that a hull was lia 'iv nee .! in tho riding ; the building of .c'i a : ign of progress It w.i- fui'h ' letnatked that some |.i-..|i'ity mm"' .light give a site, thus confoni - .,.: a 1 oiielir on the districr, and e; :. 'icing ?h> value of lih u'.vii goi 0., ! iijoporty. I'Ot.l.nlf i KM . I'KKV Tltl'-I'Kl'> " i \>!llo\ \i:i.K '' lll'lll \l. • IiOTMIS I'liKl I'.UKI'.I' Tho following names were lorwaidod by Mr A'hoit E Manning: John G Hamilton, I) Muuro, A E Koll, K J Mchko, T Mr-k!.., Albert 1-1 Earning The dork ~ marked ih :! (here wore very few interments iv I'ollok cemetery. A councillor : 1 flunk they like to ho interred in a '' lashioiiahle " eemetfiy at Auckland, (litugh'erl The appointments were approved.