ONEHUNGA COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 7

ONEHUNGA COUNCIL

NEW TRAFFIC SIGNS In connection with the new motor traffic regulations it was agreed, at a meeting of the Oneliunga Borough Council last evening, that a notice board be erected at both entrances to the borough on the main street with the words, “Borougn of Onehunga. Welcome.” A special committee, consisting of Crs. Hill, Moor and Speight, was set up to attend to the erection of the necessary statutory notices and signs. Mr. George Crichton was appointed traffic inspector under the new regulations. . ... The Mayor was appointed the council s representative on the Suburban Local Bodies’ Committee in connection with the transport question. Crs. Speight, Moor and Complin?, with the Mayor, will meet the representatives of the Mt. Roskill Road Board at the Onehunga Borough Council offices on Wednesday, April 18. for the purpose of discussing the question of the removal of the Seddon Monument from the Royal Oak Corner. , , The sum of £2 2s was voted toward the expenses of a New Zealand team to the Olympic Games at Amsterdam. An application from the secretary of the Citizens’ Band to have £SO placed on the estimates to provide the salary of the bandmaster, was referred to tfce council in committee. The chairman of the Reserves Committee, Cr. R. G. Speight, reported that, as the result of a conference, the vestry of St. Peter’s Church had offered a strip of 12ft of land abutting on Queen and Church Streets, to enable the council to remove the unsightly stone wall and form a rockery of flowers in its place. The report was referred to the council in committee. The foreman reported that the work of laying down tennis courts for the Te Papapa Tennis Club on the council’s reserve, had been completed. Correspondence from the town clerk, Mt. Eden, dealing with die forthcoming Transport Commission and the establishment of a transport board, was taken in committee. , _ _ A letter was received from Norman R. Roche, suggesting that as the coming winter showed signs of being a hard one for many people, work of a prospectively payable nature should De undertaken by the council, and so absorb a good deal of labour. He proposed, first, that the basin reserve, Queen Street South, should be walled, drained and reclaimed for the purposes of a bicycle track, and. secondly, the erection of a public hall and new municipal offices. The letter was received. A number of complaints of bad roads and footpaths were referred to the Streets Committee. The district fund account is £1,040 in debit. Water mains loan account is £309 in credit. Accounts amounting to £1.292 were passed for payment. The Mayor, Air. W. C. Coidicutt, referred to the recent deaths of two old residents of the borough, Messrs. James Mclntyre. a pioneer ironworker and founder of the Clyde Ironworks, and Air. John Bice, an old resident of the town.