UNITED NORTH SHORE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 829, 25 November 1929, Page 8

UNITED NORTH SHORE

AMALGAMATION SCHEME CONFERENCE THIS WEEK Another effort is to he made to *,. plore the possibilities of amal gu M lion of the four North Shore borough. Devonport. Takapuna. NorthcoteTm Birkenhead. A meeting of ropreset, lives nominated by the four coundh has been called tor next Wednesd*. evening, in the Chamber of Comm-? rooms, Auckland. This conference has been < ailed .» the instance of the Takapuna noroark Council and the representative* confined to members of the vari*. borough councils. lu iq-'7 a . .. 1 d coaler, cuce to discuss the same topic Z, called by the Takapuna Ratepayer* Association and the attending jgj. gates were from the several horom* councils, the ratepayers' and the gressive associations, the IVaitenau Chamber of Commerce, and a number of other groups. About 40 delegate* carried a resolution in favour ff amalgamation.

The first plan to amalgamate the boroughs was discussed at a joint meeting of the representatives of tb* four boroughs on July S, 19i4 t wJnj resolution was carried endorsing u amalgamation on the ward system, each borough to form a ward. \ sidiary proposal adopted was to 1* up a North Auckland Municipal A*so. ciation. This has since been realise* under the name of the Marine &*. oughs Association. About the time a suggestion was made to gb James Parr, then Mayor of Auckland, that he should address a meeting at the North Shore on the wisdom of fim whole North Shore joining the Citr Sir James, however, was of opinio* that the City Council would have Ks hands full in amalgamating the areas on the south side of the City.

The North Shore Water Board recently circularised the boroughs pro, posing that the water board shonld be authorised to ask for wider power* to permit it to be a species of supep ccuncil, handling water, drainage transport and roads, building ana town-palnning.

Following the 1927 conference a meeting of delegates was held in the Takapuna Borough Council Chamber* to continue the discussions. The conference was adjourned to secure fur. ther data and the Mayor of Takapuna was made convener. No further meeting was held and the new suggestion does not provide any of the inform* tion previously asked for, such as the details of management costs of the boroughs and the lines along which there could be economy in administration. the big argument of those taw ouring amalgamation.