TAKAPUNA COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 973, 16 May 1930, Page 11

TAKAPUNA COUNCIL

BUSINESS AT MEETING The Mayor. Mr. J. W. Williamson, presided at last evening's meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council. In furtherance of its policy to extend the street-lighting system of the borough, the council resolved to install new lights at the end of Opua Street, in Gordon Avenue, and at the foot of the zig-zag path in Marine Terrace. The Auckland Hospital Board advised that the borough’s levy for 1930-31 was £3.113. this being £240 in excess of last year’s amount. The Mayor stated that the total amount levied upon the four Xorth Shore boroughs this year was £8.662. and he hinted at the possibility of joint action by those bodies in the direction of obtaining a separate hospital upon th~ Xorth Shore for the use of patien’s from that area. He said that preliminary steps had already been taken by Xorthcote and Birkenhead. The council agreed to accept the offer of £34 made by the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, for the relief of unemployment amonsr the exservicemen in the borough. The offer was conditional upon the borough giving a £ for £ subsidy the total sum to be expended on wages only. The Waitemata Electric-Power Board asked the council to take steps to fill the vacancy on the board caused by the resignation of Mr. J. W. Hayden. The borough solicitor forwarded a copy of an Order-in-Council authorising the layjng-ofT a street 40 feet wide connecting Frater Avenue and Saltburn Road. Cr. Colegrove was appointed a member of the Works Committee in place of Cr. Guiniven, who had tendered his resignation. It was stated that the draft estimates for the year allowed for a total of £450 for expenditure upon the borough parks, and it was decided to make £IOO immediately available for essential work at Quinton Park, Bayswater.