NORTHCOTE BOROUGH COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 717, 17 July 1929, Page 2

NORTHCOTE BOROUGH COUNCIL

The Finance Committee reported to the Xorthcote Borough Council last evening regarding the proposed regulation that transport vehicles must run into the bus area at the wharf before turning so that passengers can alight near the footpath. The committee said that the question came within the jurisdiction of the local licensing authority, and asked that the council request the local licensing authority to give effect to this recommendation by prescribing it as a traffic regulation. The Reserves Committee was given power to cancel football matches on the municipal recreation reserves when in its opinion, owing to weather conditions. it would be detrimental to the playing area. The waterworks engineer reported that the laying of new lour-inch water mains on the Queen Street high level footpath had been completed, and three fire hydrants connected. In reply to a request from the council regarding extra buses at rush hours the Waitemata Bus and Transport Company notified that the matter was receiving its close attention, but that the extreme difference between the volume of fair weather traffic and wet weather traffic in the borough created a difficulty not easily overcome. The St. John Ambulance Association was granted permission to take up a collection in the borough on August 9. Miss E. Brunton, who for the six years has been employed in the town clerk’s office as typist, forward®* her resignation, in view of her approaching marriage. The Mayor and councillors expressed their appreciation of her services to the borough during her term of employment, and granted an extra month’s leave abaeac© on full pay.