CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 16

CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

I ♦ « 11 Items From the j Council Chamber

The footpaths in Queen Street below Wellesley Street are to be repaired. Additions to the Domain tea kiosk will claim £SOO on the city estimates for the current year. Because it is not practicable without encroachment upon the children’s play area, the City Council will not agree to laying public tennis courts at Point Erin Park. The sum of £290 19s, being half the cost of the work carried out on Swanson West Coast Road by the Waitemata County Council, is to .be paid to the county as the city’s contribution. The City Council is to contribute up to £SOO as the work progresses. The High Commissioner for New 2<ealand in London, Sir James Parr, is to be asked to represent the council a t the International Housing and Town Planning Congress at Paris in July. If he cannot attend he will be asked to nominate a possible visitor to Paris at that time^ On account of the greater area to be covered after the additions to the city district, an additional sanitary inspector will be appointed at a salary of £3lO annually. Two light two-seater motor-cars will be secured by tender to facilitate work in the sanitary inspection department. * * Upon the representation of a large number of petitioners, the City Council has decided that eight of the existing 12 grass tennis courts at Victoria Park be put down in asphalt, and that a further asphalt court be provided at the end. An offer of 100 acres of land at Henderson at £ls an acre for a municipal golf course has been declined by the civic authorities. * * * Nine petitioners from Grey Lynn will be informed that Archhill is repaired as far as the grade will allow. A footpath will be constructed for the convenience of pedestrians. The sum of £ll4 is to be spent on Improving the exits and the ventilation at the upper galleries at the Town Hall, and the installation of a tap at the main vestibule.

Mr. A. Messer, city treasurer, was granted a further three months’ leave of absence owing to ill-health. The town clerk was empowered to engage temporary assistance.