DEVONPORT BOROUGH

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 13

DEVONPORT BOROUGH

MEETING OF COUNCIL The Devonport Borough Council met last evening, attended by Messrs Al- - (Mayor), Hislop, Browne, Massey. 11. A. Campbell, Enright, Lye tllisdon, Sheehan and W. S. CampML The R.S.A. having made a grant of 150, on account o ! £IOO, to Stanley Bay Improvement Committee, the borough engineer is to endeavour to sot two men, nominated by the association. started at work. The scheme for widening Victoria Road, by setting back front boundaries 0. sections a distance of 10 feet, on the eastern side, has now been almost completed, the Government offering to accept £l5O compensation lor land, hart of the proposed post office site, to be included in the road. The offer »a« accepted.

Tho Stanley Bay Bowling Club was granted a remission of half the rates <Ue on ;ts property. Written application has been made to the Fire Underwriters’ Association f r reductions in fire insurance premiums, as an automatic fire-alarm sys- «»**. keen installed. The solicitor’s draft of the agreetent between Takapuna, Northcote ■ IX von port to erect a destructor '" l 8 ."atided with one or two minor •aerations Devonport, which has in hand for the work, wants cn borough to separately raise its aota of the £6,000 Jean required. An application for permission to ~ i! s hed on Rangitoto for fisliNnoking and salting was refused. ? n ßineer advised that £1.050 '? uld kp needed to finish the piling V2S ,G ». fop a 3ea Carrier along Narrow beach, and that the Queen’s 1 trade reclamation worl: had advanced UV2 point where “filling” may be Takapuna Borough Council is ‘ } bh r °nched to agree to the graviof ,/ j nto t b;it borough’s main sewer r rom the now unclrained Krx ( ’ r North Devonport.