CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 381, 15 June 1928, Page 16

CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

r- +• -♦ I Items From the | Council Chamber THE Drainage Board levy, as. notified to the City Council last evening, was £27,568 11s for the present financial year. * * * “There are a large number of other signatures, which I haven’t had time to count.” —Cr. J. Dempsey, presenting a petition about a tram-stop. A grant of £IOO has been made to the Workers’ Educational Association. * * * The council decided that there were no funds to provide between £SOO and £BOO for a bandstand at Point Chevalier reserve. * * * The tramway department’s contribution to the social, sick, accident and other functions of the Tramway Club this year will be £JL,755. Access by means of steps are to be made from the end of Cremorne Street to Tibb’s Beach. * * * “It will interest the council to know that we are saving £SOO a month under the new situation of tram-stops, and I ask you to bear with us a little longer, when we will go into the whole position again and make it as good as we possibly can.”—Cr. J. A. C. Allum. * * * “I would like to ask whether Mr. Mathieeon, a member of the staff of the council, has received permission to sit on another local body,” Cr. W. H. Murray asked the City Council last evening. The Mayor promised to inquire. * * * The draft of the proposed local Bill known as the Auckland Water Supply Act, 1928, was received from the city solicitor, and was referred to a joint committee with the necessary power to act. The Bill will be submitted to Parliament this session.