A LOAN MUDDLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 80, 25 June 1927, Page 13

A LOAN MUDDLE

EXPENDITURE BLOCKED BY LEGAL TECHNICALITY (Special to THE SUN.) WANGANUI, Friday. The City Council finds itself in an extraordinary position concerning the loan of £6,000 which last year was raised for the relief of unemployment. In addition to other works, the men were put on an extension of Reidway Street. Work was eventually stopped because the road had to passthrough a cemetery, owners of the plots having refused to allow the dead to be disturbed. After months of delay it was decided to divert the road with an overhead bridge over the railway. The Railway Department, preparing to erect the bridge, decided that work be resumed to afford employment for the workless. The legal side now comes into the piature, as the original loan stipulated for a course through the cemetery and the money, apparently, cannot be diverted even if the road is diverted to meet £he position. The hold-up is a most unusual one.- Those having dead relatives in the cemetery are adamant and will not permit the gifeves to be distrubed, while the iCty Council and Railway Department cannot proceed because the loan money must be spent in the manner originally, intended when the loan was raised-