Tamaki Joins City in April Next

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 100, 19 July 1927, Page 1

Tamaki Joins City in April Next

ORAKEI COMING TOO difficulties cleared On April 1, 1928, Tamaki and the Orakei Road district will be amalgamated with Auckland City. The necessary arrangements with the Road Board, City Council and Lands Department are now practically completed. The Tamaki ratepayers carried the proposal to amalgamate, but so far as Orakei was concerned, the position was complicated by the City Council’s resolution of April 14: “That in the event of a poll of ratepayers in the Tamaki district, including the Orakei Road district, on the question of amalgamation being successful, the Auckland City Council would offer no objection to unocnditional amalgamation.” OUTCOME OF CONFERENCE A conference was held, at whir* the City Council, the Orakei Ren Board, their legal advisers, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr. O. N. Campbell, were present. It was there reported that the road board was prepared to agree to amalgamation, and that Mr. Campbell recommended bis department to agree to the following terms: 1 The Government to continue the waterfront roadway to Mission Bay. 2 A connecting road to bo constructed from the waterfront roadway to Whakatakataka Bay, and thence to link up with the Government's internal roadway system in the Orakei block, and on to the Orakei Bridge. 3. The Government to form and complete all Internal roads in accordance with its subdivisional plan, including sewerage and water reticulation up to city requirements. 4. The Government to pay half the cost of reconstructing Orakei Bridge and approaches. 5. Orakei to remain a special rating area, in which ratepayers would pay all Auckland city rates except special rates until half of the Government land had been sold, and thereafter cease to be a special rating area. 6. The city to assume, when the period of special rating area ceases, a loan liability of £200,000, being part of the expenditure incurred by the Government, estimated at £354,000, such loan of £200,000 to be at the best terms available, not exceeding 5i per cent, interest and 1 per cent, sinking fund. At a special meeting of the City Council yesterday the motion of April 14 was rescinded, and it was decided to present the necessary petitions to the Governor-General, the Tamaki and Orakei districts as from April 1, 1928.