MANUREWA TOWN BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 936, 1 April 1930, Page 11

MANUREWA TOWN BOARD

A diversity of opinion was shown by members of the Manurewa Town Board at last evening’s meeting when a letter was received from the secretary of the Brookby Ratepayers’ Association, asking that the corner of Alfriston Road and Great South Road be widened and made safer for traffic. Mr. Wliyte said it was a very important question. The corner was dangerous, and the position should be gone into. * Mr. Fawcett said the corner was not so dangerous as reported. It was decided that the board view the corner, and the association be advised that the question will be considered by the board at an early date. Advice was received from the Medical Officer of Health, that the board’s offer of £35 had been accepted for one year for the services of the medical inspector for the district. Mr. Boylan drew the board’s attention to the disgraceful state of Weymouth Road. He claimed it was the worst road in the district. On the recommendation of Mr.- Barnard, the foreman was instructed to make temporary repairs until the roads for the district are inspected by the board, when the position will be reviewed. On receipt of a letter from the Manurewa School Committee, recommending that lines be drawn across the Great South Road and the children be instructed to cross the roads only at this point, it was decided that consideration be deferred for the present. It was further decided that the school committee be asked to write to the combined bodies transport committee, to ask that permission be granted Inspector D. Fletcher to lecture the children on the danger of motor traffic, and the safe methods of crossing the main roads. Mr. C. S. McCallum, Papakura riding member of the Manukau County Council, waited on the board, and asked for support in the question of providing a pound*in the Takanfni district. He said there were five levelcrossings within a radius of two miles, and straying stock was a nuisance in the district. At present the Otahuhu pound was the nearest. After a long discussion it was decided that, owing to shortage of funds and the prospects of small revenue from the pound, the board could not consider the question at present. The proprietors of the PukekoheAuckland Bus Company wrote advising that in response to complaints relative to the overcrowding of the buses, an interview' had been held writh the traffic inspector, and arrangements w r ere arrived at to carry on for the present, and the company had decided to put on an extra bus in the near future to cater for increased traffic. On receipt of an account for £lO 10s from the Papatoetoe Fire Brigade, for work done at a recent fire at Mr. D. Nathan’s property at Manurewa, it was decided that a letter of thanks be forw r arded to the brigade for its services, and the clerk was instructed to forward the account to Mr. Nathan.