UNSOLVED PROBLEM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 391, 27 June 1928, Page 14

UNSOLVED PROBLEM

SECTION OF EAST COAST ROAD The chairman of the Waiteoaij Chamber of Commerce reported evening that the tion of the East Coast Road was sti3 an unsolved problem. The ratepayers had turned down a poll to raise £4,000 fo. work on th road, as it was considered that Jit amount was excessive. Efforts now be made to secure the fulfilmen. of the Government promises to grant a subsidy for the road work. Exception was taken to the propose for a Museum Board, which it was considered would become like the Hosptt*Board, a wholly autocratic institute able to make demands on the pu bodies, which could have no redress The suggestion, made by some ***; bers of the Borough Council, that uRoad (past the gas works) shoyw - reformed by raising money under Unemployment Act provisions was • endorsed ; it was considered that af £40,0000 had been added to tne ough’s public debt in that way in * years, all future capital expend** should first be submitted to a ratepayers. . . h . The chairman explained m levies which will be made this Devonport. In Takapuna on - ' tive amounts had so far been rhalc . The proposal of the Hastings ber of Commerce that scenic should be set aside on the ie Waikaremoana route was en The Law Society is to he cong™ lated on its endeavour to arrimge surance scheme to protect cl ests from possible defa!^ t i° n f he ' chticitor.s. This was suggested by her in a remit to the annual of chambers in 1926.