WORK PROGRESSING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 930, 25 March 1930, Page 14

WORK PROGRESSING

BIG DRAINAGE CONTRACT IN ONEHUNGA FIRE BOARD SEAT EMPTY ♦I foreman of works reported to the Onehunga Borough Council last evening that satisfactory progress is being made with the £30,000 drainage contract on the Merrilands Estate. Tnere were 73 men engaged on the vork, and the contractors. Alessrs. H. Bray and Co., were more than maintaining the specified quota of local labour. Notices are to be sent to all householders on the estate advising them to connect with the main sewers while they are open, and that any loan money required is available. The Transport Board is to be requested to repair the tramway tracks in Onehunga, which are reported to be m a very bad condition. nr-Ti h i G l )rice of burial plots in the Hillsborough Cemetery is to be increased by 6s each, and the revenue so derived devoted to laying down concrete paths on the propert:,*. r>r^i n ° tifiC£^-° n as receiv ed from the Onehunga Fire Board intimating that as a council’s representative on the board, Air. P. R. Lipscombe, had vacated his seat through absence at two consecutive meetings, the position had befcn reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs. Cr. Lipscombe explained inat his second absence was caused through indisposition, and he was not aware that two consecutive would unseat him. The question was deferred pending notification by the Minister.

X, Tl l e Jf. lev ation of the One Tree Hill Road District into a borough has apparently had the effect of °xemntine; its water-pumping property in Street, Onehunga, from rates. An intimation from the One Tree Hill'clerk to this effect was received by the council with obvious regret, A request for a grant of .£ 50 made by the Merrilands Ratepayers’ Associa-

tion was deferred until the ensuing year’s estimates were under consideration. The association pointed out that the money was required to improve the newly acquired reserve known as Fergusson Domain, by the planting of shelter trees and laying out the grounds for recreation purposes, the labour to be given free of cost to the council.

The periodical bacteriological examination of the borough water supply was certified to by the Health Department as being satisfactory. Permission was granted the society for the Protection of Women and Children to take up a street collection m conjunction with the Sunshine League on September 12 and Alarcii 28 was allocated to the Plunket Societv and the Auckland Hospital Auxiliary.*