ONEHUNGA ROADS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 493, 24 October 1928, Page 15

ONEHUNGA ROADS

BOUNDARY QUESTION SETTLED MEETING OF COUNCIL The question of maintaining the boundary roads between Onehunga ami One Tree Hill was finally settled at a meeting of the Onehunga Borough Council last evening. The One Tree Hill Road Board wrote accepting the proposal of the council that the latter take over Hauiti Road and Orange Avenue, leaving Rockfield Road to be controlled by the One Tree Hill body. The Wellington City Council wrote asking for the Borough Council’s cooperation in protesting against certain clauses of the motor regulations requiring local bodies to erect traffic signs at railway or tramway crossings, and also at street corners indicating areas in which speed limits are reduced below those mentioned in the regulations. No action was taken. In a letter received from the Onehunga School Committee it was stated that during the past six months, since the establishment of a dental clinic at the school, dental work to the value of £1,400 had been done. The letter pointed out that the work was being inconveniently conducted in a temporary structure, and solicited a donation from the council toward the building of a permanent clinic to cost £4<>o, two-thirds of which would be paid by the Government, if the baßince was raised by voluntary subscriptions. The council donated £5. A sub-commit tee comprising Councillors F. S. Alorton, T. Moor and I*. R. Lipscombe was appointed to draft a circular to the ratepayers advocating the establishment of a transport board in view of the poll to be taken on October 31 The Auditor-General drew attention to the fact that in the council’s balance sheet for the year ended March 31, 1928, no provision had been made for sinking funds in connection with the Beresford Park drainage loan of £38,170. and the mnemployment relief loan of £5,000. The council’s explanation of this omission, that the Sinking Fund Commissioners had been unable to find suitable investments, did not, in the Auditor-General’s opinion, justify the council’s action, as such moneys could, pending investment, be lodged in the Savings Bank or placed on fixed deposit by the commissioners. Ho therefore requested the payment of the instalments to the commissioners, as required by law. The letter was received. The Auckland Cricket Association advised that it would provide financial assistance toward the cost of laying out the Onehunga recreation reserve as a sports playing area, the exact amount of the contribution to be disclosed at an early date. Air. T. N. Holmden, solicitor, was ! authorised to appear on behalf of the ! council in an action to be brought j against it by Air. John Dawson. C.E., | who is claiming £4OO for work done j in connection with a drainage report. | The Alount Roskill Road Board wrote I objecting to its refuse for the destructor being charged by the ton measurement instead of by weiglitJbut the council adhered to its previous* decision to charge by measurement. The tender of S. T. Dibble (£354 15s lOd) was accepted for concreting a section of Alanukau Road near the Royal Oak, and J. Burton’s tender of £9 15s was accepted for the erection j of a paling fence. The monthly analysis of the borough’s water, which was furnished by the medical health officer, proved satisfactory. Accounts amounting to £1,19 1 were passed for payment. The district fund account is L 466 in credit.