NORTHCOTE BOROUGH COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 11

NORTHCOTE BOROUGH COUNCIL

The Xorthcote Borough Council met last evening, the Mayor, Mr. A. E. Greenslade, presiding. The recommendation of the traffic manager that for the purpose of consolidating the shoulders in Queen Street, preparatory to tar-sealing, traffic be diverted on to them during the winter months, was adopted. The borough overseer's report on the drainage of properties in the Waimana Estate was referred to the Works Committee, in conjunction with the chairman of the Legal and Finance Committee.

The council decided to give its support to the proposal for the establishment of a hospital for the North Shore boroughs and to co-operate with the Birkenhead Borough Council in the question of setting up machinery to further the project. The Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs wrote with reference to the recent alteration of the borough boundaries and suggested that the area of 22 acres known as the Little Shoal Bay reserve, lying between the borough and Xorthcote and Birkenhead and which is at present jointly controlled by the two councils, be vested in one of the boroughs. He suggested that the councils concerned come to an agreement on the subject. The council decided that question be referred to the Legal and Finance 1 Committee to meet the Birken'ie_J i Borough Council regarding the ]>roi posal. The opinion was expressed that 1 as the greater part of the reserve war contiguous to Xorthcote, the council was agreeable to it being included in I the area of the borough. _