CARELESS FOOTBALLERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 754, 29 August 1929, Page 11

CARELESS FOOTBALLERS

COMPLAINT TO DEVONPORT COUNCIL TRAMS AT FERRY WHARF Last evening’s meeting of the Devonport Borough Council was presided over by the Deputy-Mayor, Mr. J. Hislop, because of the absence of the Mayor in Wellington. The Department of Agriculture intimated that it will take action against anyone found keeping rabbits without proper authority. The information was conveyed along with a reply to the borough’s inquiry as to what the department required regarding the new business of rabbit-farming. It was informed that two applicants from Devonport had been given the necessary leave, and two more applications were pending. The animals had to be kept in a specified fashion, or not at all. WATERFRONT RAILWAY Replying to a complaint from the council that trains were being run along the waterfront railway at times that interfered with the ferry traffic, the Harbour Board replied that on the date mentioned in the complaint the train ran at 5.30 p.m., not 5,25, as alleged, the hours agreed on during which trains were not to run were 45.30 p.m. Cr. Eyre, who made the complaint to the council: I object to that quibble. You edn tell them a councillor made the complaint. The Railway Department, in reference to the same matter, claimed that the agreement as to hours was rigidly adhere to. He was supported by Cr. Little, who admitted that on one occasion, when pressed for delivery of goods to a ship at the wharf, he had been turned down by the Railway Department when he urged breaking the agreement. Cr. Falla thought that the time for commencing train-running should be ; 5.35, to clear the departure of the 5.30 p.m. ferry. Mr. Hislop: We had a mighty battle over this question before, and it is no use reopening now. The letters were received. Sitting as the Devonport Domain Board, the council heard a complaint from a resident living by the domain that footballers, at night practices, kicked the ball on to his roof, and trampled down his garden searching for it. The complaint is to be taken up with the football club. M The Town Planning Board sustained the council in its decision that part of Old Lake Road should not be a shopping area, A property-owner in the shop-prohibited section had appealed to the board, and lost.