CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 625, 30 March 1929, Page 10

CIVIC SNAPSHOTS

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The amount payable under the “Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Act, 1928” for the year ending- March 31. 1930, is £2,511. The council will in future be represented on the museum council by the Mayor and three councilors. The question of representation was left to the incoming council. • * * The Auckland district council of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture suggested that provision be made in next year’s estimates for a preliminary development of the proposed botanic garden in the Domain. It was further suggested that £IOO be set aside for the purchase of 30 acres of kauri bush near Waimauku. The first proposal wil be considered. The second was referred x to the Parks Committee. * * • Lot 16 of the Civic Square sections has been leased to Mr. T. A. Low at a rental of £405 per annum for the balance of the G6-year term beginning on January 1, 192 8. The Mayor said that the sum of £9,330 was being received as rents from the Square. Five more sections would soon be available. Three of these were being inquired for. “I think we can congratulate ourselves that we have done so well,” said the Mayor. * * * The Auckland Automobile Association was notified that its suggested improvement of the Symonds Street-Graf-ton Bridge-Karangahape Road corner will be undertaken early in the next financial year. The association proposed that the Symonds Street kerb lines be set back. * * * The mangroves fringing the Orakei Basin should be cleared by relief labout while the water is low, pending the completion of the railway embankment, was a suggestion by the Remuera Central Ratepayers’ Association, he Parks Committee has been deputed to report. # The trustees of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle wrote protesting against the proposed Belgium Street subway, but stating that if the subway were covered in a good deal of the grounds for opposition would, be removed. The letter was received. To a question by the Mount Roskill Road Board concerning the proposed amalgamation of Roskill South with the city, the council replied that nothing would be done until the authorities on both sides had met in r-on fprpnco.