DEVONPORT AFFAIRS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 742, 15 August 1929, Page 10

DEVONPORT AFFAIRS

POSTAL FACILITIES DECLINED COLLECTION OF REFUSE The Post and Telegraph Department has notified the Devonport Borough Council that ivs proposal for the establishment of postal facilities at Stanley Bay and Vauxhall could not be agreed to. The council’s representative at the local body conference to elect a member of the Technical School Board of Managers will be Mr. F. J. IT. Ellisdon. Apparently holding that money that it has to pay for the purchase of land at the Iris Wharf terminal is not to bo classified as being spent for relief of unemployment, the Cabinet declined the suggestion of the Devonport Council that the money' - be subsidised £ for £ for that purpose. An application by the Devonport Library Committee for the use of a portion of the council chambers, the tenancy of which is to be given up by the Waitemata Power Board, was declined,' 9 as the council now needs the space for its own staff. The committee volunteered to wave its claim for permission to have a street collection on September 6. in favour of the Community Sunshine Association, which applied for the same date. A sum of £2 2s was voted the Society for Protection of Women and Children.

It was decided that water meters will be installed on all water services. The council, after investigating figures anci costs, decided that it could remove refuse cheaper than a contract price submitted to it.