ONEHUNGA COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 622, 26 March 1929, Page 9

ONEHUNGA COUNCIL

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED The turning from Manukau Road into Trafalgar Street. Onehunga, is a particularly dangerous one for motorcars, and has been the scene of numerous accidents to drivers coming from the city toward Onehunga. especially after dark. The vacant section on the corner is now about to be subdivided and th© Onehunga Borough Council at its meeting last evening requested the owner. Mr. J. Robins, to dedicate 10ft of the property fronting each road as additional roadway. This will enable the council to set the footpath 10ft further back, making the corner comparatively safe for traffic. The One Tree Hill Road Board is to be notified that it must cease dumping in the borough's drainage outfall j tank, which is being overtaxed.

Cry. H. Campling and F. S. Morton I having reported that as the result oE • an interview with the Minister of Public Works, a further £IOO had; been promised as a subsidy for un- ! employed relief works, and that the ! Minister had promised to favourably consider a further grant of £3OO. the streets committee was accordingly ' t authorised to put several men on foot- : ! path work. The secretary and curator of the museum notified that under the Auckland War Memorial Maintenance Act, the annual payment by the council of £,2l‘S 5s 2d was due on June 30 next. The town clerk remarked that th© council had never had an opportunity of perusing the Act, and he thought it unjust that the payment should have to be made in a lump sum in- I stead of by quarterly instalments. This meant that a special rate* would have to be struck. The Manukau Yacht and Motor Club, which has recently constructed a slipway for hauling boats ashore for th© winter months, finding that the overhead power lines obstruct the masts of their craft, requested the council to have wires shifted to the opposite side of th© roadway. The j question is to be passed on to the ! power board.