OTAHUHU BOROUGH COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 737, 9 August 1929, Page 11

OTAHUHU BOROUGH COUNCIL

A. letter from the Minister of Publie Works was read ut. last evening's meeting of the Otahuhu Borough Council, in reply to a request from the council for a £ for £ subsidy on £ h°?° _ which is to t>e spent in the relief of unemployment. The Minister said that from information received from the district engineer at Auckland, lie had been informed that the money ms for footpath construction. Xo estimates had been prepared, and the council was apparentlv finding £3,000 from revenue. Under these conditions, the council was entitled to only 50 per cent, of labour and no subsidy at all on the cost of materials. The town clerk said that the monev " as A,° k® taken from loan account, ihe Minister had been advised of this but his letter was one of the hundred* Xew^Z^L*d OCa * bodies throughout On the motion of Mr. Pearce, the clerk was authorised to advise the Minister of the facts of the case. district engineer of the Pirblir Works Department, advised that a subsidy of 50 per cent, of labour, based ° n s . at the rate Us a day un to £2OO, had been approved for relief of unemployment for the work of metalling Clevedon Road and Gore Street. T reQ “ est froni tlle Trades Hall Labour Day Celebration Committee for a donation to its funds for Labour Day celebrations was refused on the grounds that the council already con - tributes to the borough employees’ annual picnic. f,-;L d ?n at^ n of C 3 3s received nom .he Passenger Transport Company in recognition of services rendered by the fire brigade clerk reported that receipts for the first quarter of the present vear 1! & «?endtts" £13,333 19s id. The general account V.O.S In debit £16.586 *s 9d. The debit balance carried over from last year totalled £9,216 Is 2d. jeai fnJ 1 VU oreman subn »itted estimates for the year ending March 31, 3950 for maintenance of main highways in' the borough, totaling £9OO Of th amount, the Main Highways Board will contribute £6OO, and the council £3OO On the recommendation of the legal and finance committee, it was agreed that no reduction be made in the wa%e r rate for the Otahuhu railwav wo'-v shops. J