ROTORUA BOROUGH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 September 1932, Page 6

ROTORUA BOROUGH

GENERAL BUSINESS NEW SYSTEM OF FOOTPATH CONSTRUCTION SUGGESTED CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS Recommendations from the general and finance commiUee and the borough engineer were discussed and approved at a meeting of the Rotorua Borough Council held on Wedneaday evening. The engineer suggcsted that the council consider laying a .section of footpath on the monolithic sy-tem, and said that this would be a cheaper proposition than paving with concreto slabs and would be. mere e'fective where there is 110 eoncrete lcerbing. In response to an enquiry tlie taxi propriefors on the Hinemoa sland aie to bo advised that the maxinxum mimber of cars on the stand i ; limited to nine. It war. decided that Ihe question of ratepayers who are on relief work bcing permitted to work to pay oif their rates, be held over pending preparation of a report showing the property held by rolief workers and the rates owing on same. The council decided to taho aetion under Section 131 of the Municlpnl Corporations Act, 11)20, to include in the borough the aerodrome area and adjacent land and that the Internal Affaii's Department be requested to arrango for an amendment to the Rotorua Borough Act, 1022, to allow for the inclusion in the borough of portion of the Cemetery Reserve recently talcen over. The finance conxmittee advised that pending receipt of the magistrate's written decision in the last case talcen for recovery of amounts owing for the construction of permanent footpaths, the whole matter be held in " abeyance.