CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 589, 15 February 1929, Page 16

CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

j ► ! Items From the 1 1 Council Chamber Messrs. A. J. Entrican, J. Paterson and M. J. Coyle were elected as the City Council representatives on the Auckland Fire Board. The chief traffic inspector has been instructed to deal stringently with noisy motor vehicles, two-wheeled, three-wheeled and four-wheeled. * * * Mr. R. M. Gairdner has been appointed caretaker at Motuihi, and has also been appointed special constable while on the island. e ■* * Karori Crescent and Paora Street in the Orakei Garden Suburb are being taken over by the City Council. They measure 16 and 18 chains respectively. * * * The council adopted a new by-law by which action will be possible to prevent the playing of gramophones or the use of loud-speakers in shop doorways. An application by the Ponsonby Swimming and Life-Saving Club for permission to erect a club house at the bottom of Shelly Beach Road was declined on the grounds of unsuitability of the site. * * * Plans of the new “Civic Theatre," to be erected on the Civic Square by Thomas O'Brien Theatres, Ltd., were submitted to the council for approval. They will be considered by the Town Planning and Works Committee. * * * Several contractors, including Messrs. J. J. Craig, Ltd., Winstone’s, Ltd, Delicti, Ltd., and J. W. Morgan, asked that, in view of the council’s curtailment of work their carting and scoria contracts should be extended. The council was recommended by the Works Committee to decline such action, and agreed. * * * . At the suggestion of the Mayor, the Parks Committee will consider his proposal to establish a zoological society in Auckland. M.r. Baildon said lie had been in touch with leading citizens. who had expressed pleasure with the proposal. It is suggested that full use be made of the Zoo for instruction of the public on the habits of animals. Competent lecturers would be invited to assist. % * * The milk vendors’ position was discussed in a report by the sanitary inspector, who reported that, though it was preferable that milk should be sold from dairies only, this requirement would cause inconvenience and hardship. He was therefore insisting that no milk should be sold from places where kerosene, vegetables, fish, meat, or other substances likely to cause, contamination were stored.