MT. ROSKILL ROAD BOARD
TENDERS ACCEPTED The Auckland Electric-Power Board has notified the Mount Roskill Roacl Board of its intention to have voltage charts made in the area where complaints have lately been made in regard to poor street lights. If it is found that the pressure is at fault, it will be immediately rectified. The board, which met last evening, has no funds to enable it to comply with the request of the Roskili West Ratepayers’ Association to kerb .and channel the streets on the Islington estate. The engineer estimated the cost of such work at £ 1,000 a street. Eleven tenders for seats for the public hall at Three Kings were received, that of Mr. J. C. Wiggins, £26 Ss, being the lowest and was accepted. For excavating 1,500 cubic yards o p mixed rock in St. Andrew’s Road, nine tenders were received, the lowest being 4s lid a yard from Mr. J. Williams, which was accepted.
It is the intention of the Auckland Education Board to proceed with the erection of a new school building at the end of Dominion Road, Mount Roskill, and the Road Board was requested to prepare the entrance to the site. Tenders are to be called.
A committee consisting of Messrs Jones, Davies and Tansley was appointed to wait on the chairman of the No. 2 Highways Board In connection with the permanent paving of Mount Albert Road, and the proportion of contribution that may be expected. A request from the Orphans’ Home Trust Board for financial assistance was declined on the casting vote of the chairThe board’s engineer reported that the sewage septic tank on the Manukau had been thoroughly cleansed, and the opening in the reef had been enlarged to expedite the emptying of the tank. Permits were granted for the erection of 11 new buildings in the district. Twenty-one property owners have been notified to provide vehicular crossings to their premises, and a number of other ratepayers have been instructed to connect their houses with the sewerage system.
The general account Is £3,005 in debit. The rates, as publicly advertised, for the year ending March 31, 1929, were formally agreed to.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 379, 13 June 1928, Page 6
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361MT. ROSKILL ROAD BOARD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 379, 13 June 1928, Page 6
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