HUNTLY TOWN BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 216, 1 December 1927, Page 7

HUNTLY TOWN BOARD

LOAN CONDITIONS CRITICISED At the last meeting of the Huntly Town Board. Messrs. J. Stirling', president. and J. Tweedie, secretary, waited on the board in relation to the Thistle football ground, which has been absorbed by the board in the area donated by the Taupiri Coal Company. The club had expended money and labour in laying out a playing area, and the! board recognised that it was unfortunate that their ground was in the piece now owned by it. However, the club will not be interfered with next season, and it has been given the prior right over the ground for that time. The suggested loarv proposals met with anything but a. favourable reception —in fact, one for £I,OOO for acquiring a packing area next the town hall was declined by the Loans Board, which also made the terms impossible for the board to go on with the proposed tar-sealing of the Main South Road through Huntly. The chairman pointed out that the main road loan for £2.750 was reduced by £l9O, the Loans Board to pay for the first year’s interest and sinking fund, and the rate of interest, 6 per cent., for a period of 10-o/ears. was barely the life of the road itself. The Railway Department is to be asked to assist in the matter of public weighing. There are no other facilities in the town except the railway weighbridge. The situation does not warrant the erection of a public weighbridge at a heavy cost, and probably a man to issue certificates, hence the action of the board. The U .A.O.D. Lodge wrote that the Quarters offered to them in the town hall were unsuitable, and that other arrangements had been made. The chairman tested the meeting on the point that the board room be let for bona-fide meetings only, and not for convivial purposes. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the ladies’ cemetery improvement committee, in ac knowledging receipt ol funds from that body. Mrs. J. McGill and her committee have done srood work in this deserving cause, and the vote was well merited. A suitable picture is to he screened i„ the town hall on a Sunday evening n the near future, and the programme will embrace sacred solos. The proceeds will be used for aiding distiess from unemployment.