PAPAKURA TOWN BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 468, 25 September 1928, Page 15

PAPAKURA TOWN BOARD

DISCUSSION ON TAXIS SUPPORT FOR MUSEUM BILL (From Our Own Correspondent) PAPAKURA, To-day. The first meeting of the newlyelected Fapakura Town Board was held last evening. Mr. Jas. McCall was re-elected chairman. The Otahuhu Borough Council offered the traffic inspector and assistant, who is jointly employed by them, and the Manukau County Council, Papatoetoe and Mamirewa Town Boards, also the use of load meters at £l5O per annum. The board decided not to accept the proposal. Mr. H. E. McEntee was appointed delegate to the Regional Planning No. 4 Committee. Mr. G. Archey, curator of the War Memorial Museum, waited on the board to solicit support for the Wai- Memorial Museum Maintenance Bill. Previously the board had opposed the Bill, but after hearing an appeal by Mr. Archey it reversed its decision and promised its support. Mr. McEntee asked the chairman why a motion of the board directing the chairman to move the taxis on to the site allocated for taxis had not been given effect. The chairman made no reply. The Rev. W. C. Wood said: What’s the use of passing resolutions if they are not to be given effect to, and maintained that the board looked to the chairman to. carry out its directions. Tho Chairman: The position is this; notices have been up, and the taxis are still in their old place. Its for us to give them notice to take proceedings. Mr. Leitchf It’s a most ridiculous thing to put a taxi stand where it is. It’s a death trap, no man with any brains would do it. The least we can do is to shift them somewhere else. Mr. Leitch proceeded to find fault with the half-hour limit for parking cars, and said it was detrimental to business people. A motion to instruct the foreman to see the board’s traffic control by-laws are carried out was lost by 4 votes to 3.