CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 16

CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

r +■ ■* —— I Items From the j • Council Chamber

Offers of land, claims for compen- \ sation, and requests for donations filled ! a good deal of the City Council order paper last evening. The Aero Club asked for a donation for a second plane. This was referred to the Finance Com- ’ mittee. The St. John Ambulance applied for a donation. This was also referred to the committee. * * * Two people requested compensation for clothing damaged in the streets. Both were refused. * * * C. F. Bennett, .Ltd., offered 11 acres and two old buildings at Avondale for a motor camp, the price being £ 5,000. The offer was declined. * * * A Harbour Board leasehold, on the line of the suggested extension of Gore Street to Quay Street, was offered to the council by Mr. T. Mandeno Jackson for £20,000. The lease has 27 years to run. The offer was declined. * * * The troubles of Inverness Avenue are not yet over. Having changed from York Avenue to Yarra Avenue, and then to its present name, it has come into conflict with Inverness Avenue in Mount Roskill district, and the Roskill Road Board has asked that the city should make another attempt at naming the street owing to confusion having arisen. The council decided to give Mount Roskill the satisfaction of knowing that the city’s Inverness Avenue was named at the request of residents in it. • * * The manager of the Salvation Army Workmen’s Home asked the council to remit the rates amounting to £94 17s 6d, or to at least grant some reduction. The Finance Committee will report. * * * Tamaki ratepayers, still in fear of losing the wharf at St. Heliers, wrote stating that the council had power to repair the wharf, according to advice they had received from the Marine Department, and again asked that the council do something, free labour being offered. The Works Committee will report again. * * * Among other licences renewed by the City Council last evening was that of Dixieland. Ltd., at Point Chevalier. ♦ * * A tender of £25 a calendar month for occupancy of the Zoological Park tea kiosk was accepted. The present tenant has been paying over £35 a month. * * # In view of the crowds expected in Queen Street on election night the Chief Traffic Inspector recommended the council last evening that all vehicular traffic in Queen Street should be prohibited between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. next Wednesday. This was agreed to. * * * The council will meet at a special meeting next Thursday afternoon to

elect its six representative® on the Transport Board.

On the recommendation of the Works Committee the council decided to support the residents in requesting the Railway Department to place the railway station at , the Glendowie end of the new tunnel as near the original site at Glen Innis a>s possible. * * * With a view to providing access between Oakley Avenue and Albert Road, Avondale, the council decided to pay £2lO for a property enabling the connection. * * * A six-foot strip on the junction of Durham Street and Durham Lane is to be purchased for street improvements at a cost of £ 100 a foot. * * * In order to make provision for possible tramway extensions along Albert Street the council decided to pay £3OO for the land necessary to set back buildings at the corner of Albert and Cook Streets fifteen feet bn each frontage. Two-thirds of the amount will be debited to the tramway department. • * * Mount Roskill having undertaken to find £1.250 for the work required on The Drive, the council has decided to put the work in hand. The estimated cost of the work to be done is slightly under £2,500. * * * The council decided to take no action on the suggestion that wire or other things should be placed on Grafton Bridge with the object of preventing suicides. • * * After having sought the opinions of all the main cities in New Zealand the council decided to advise the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that the council could not donate anything towards the cost of sending three delegates to the Empire Educational Conference in Vancouver next Easter. The council was asked to provide £2oo* None of the other cities has been asked for a donation. * * * Negotiations have been going on for some time between the city and a property owner in Ayr Street with the idea of ultimately developing the recreation reserve situated between Brighton and Shore Roads and Hobson Bay. The council has now decided to I make a definite offer for property adjoining the reserve and owned by Mr. D. A. Hay, so that as time goes by and funds are available the reserve can be developed. The Finance Committee has been supported by the Parks Committee, which controls the City Band, both committees being of the opinion that the Broadcasting Company must pay £750 annually or do without the broadcasting of the band. The council confirmed the decisions of the committee, so that on the present position the band is definitely off the air. * * * The council has appointed the following honorary rangers in the Waitakeres: Messrs. F. Carr Rollett, B. Nicholson. N. Hawkins. W. B. Walker, H. J. Atkinson and W. Spragg. Mr. J. N. Rishworth was appointed previously. * * * Eleven tenders ranging from £15,569 to £23.123 were received for the construction of a reservoir on Mount Eden. It was decided to accept the lowest tender, that of the Fletcher Construction, Co., Lt>. The estimate for the work was £19,017. The Waterworks Committee has been given power to go ahead.