AREAS AFFECTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 498, 30 October 1928, Page 1

AREAS AFFECTED

ADEQUATE SCHEME IN SIGHT MR. E. H. POTTER’S REVIEW f “The Act has passed the House, and is now only waiting the consent of the ratepayers,” said Mr. E. H. Potter, Mayor of Mount Eden, and spokesman for the suburban local bodies concerned in the Transport Board proposal, when interviewed this morning. The Act, he continued, provided that the City, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Newmarket, Onehunga, One Tree Hill, Mount Roskill, Mount Wellington, Ellerlie, and Panmure should form one area for transport purposes. It provided, also, that any district desirous of joining in could do so with the approval of the Minister. With improved concrete highways and roads generally, the all-conquer-ing motor would provide an adequate transport system. The business community could look to the board to give adequate transport without involving the ratepayer in a loss, and a beneficial service everywhere in the board’s area.

The board system of government was regional in scope and was the only possible system of government to keep pace with the transport development in the transport area, which exceeds 300 square miles. “The votes of the ratepayers of all constituent districts other than the city shall be taken together,” he continued. “All polls in outside districts shall be deemed one poll. In each of the polls a majority of valid votes cast in favour of the poll shall carry it.” A ratepayer on the city roll and a ratepayer in an outside district could record a vote in one or more of the districts in which they paid rates. Summing Tip, Mr. Potter said the licensing authority \v#,uld be vested in the Transport Board. The Act contained all the necessary provisions and, as a local authority, had powers similar to those of the Auckland Electric Power Board.

“INFLAMED WITH DRINK”

CHINAMAN ASSAULTED PROBATION FOR WAIHI MAN “Inflamed with drink,” Ernest Edward Thompson, aged 26, assaulted a Chinaman at Waihi, causing him actual bodily harm. He stood before the bar in the Supreme Court this morning for sentence. For prisoner Mr. Alan Moody said Thompson was out one day with a party of boys all in liquor. They told him he was not game to fight. He accepted the taunt and they suggested the Chinaman as a subject on which to prove his science. Colonel Jowsey, who knew the man well, wrote to the Court stating that if it were not for the prevalence of sly-grog shops in Waihi prisoner would not be in his present position. Mr. Moody said prisoner came of good parents, and at the time of the occurrence was inflamed with drink. “Apparently the position is that when you have had a few drinks you wish to fight somebody,” said Mr. Justice Blair. “You have been convicted before on minor charges arising out of drink. I will give you another chance and I hope my leniency will be justified.” In admitting Thompson to three years’ probation, his Honour warned him to abstain from liquor and to keep rigidly to the terms of a prohibition order. Prisoner was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution.