MT. EDEN EXTENSION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1007, 25 June 1930, Page 10

MT. EDEN EXTENSION

ROSKILL BOARD PERTURBED CONCRETING LOAN DELAYED Fears that the proposed tram wav ! tension of the Mount Eden hn© w .-» j stop at Landscape Road unless th? ‘ Mount Roskill Road Board concrete ‘the surface of Three Kings Road and !so have the terminus extended t,. [ Mount Albert Road, were somewhet allayed at last evening’s meeting of thi ! board by a communication from Mr. c ) C. Munns. M.P., regarding the necesf For some months past the Mount Roskill Road Board lias been trying obtain the sanction of the Dans Boari j to place the question of a loan before the ratepayers, and Mr. Munns was requested. while in 'Wellington, to inquir I into the cause of the delay. He now ; vises that the application arrived to,' ( late for the board's last meeting, bir i will be dealt with in a few days wheI the board next meets. [ “We have been hammer! ug at th*- ! Loans Board for the past six months remarked Mr. E. F. Jones, the Koa.j . Board’s chairman, but now that we know the question will be decided in a few days the poll may be taken versoon. and we must move heaven and earth to get the loan carried." In this connection, the Wesley Trust made a request for a footpath o n Three Kings Road, from Landscape Road to the main entrance to their property, and on the motion of Mr | Jones it was agreed to inform th. I trustees that their influence toward I securing support for the loan would J further the attainment of their request.

A sub-committee, comprising Messi - E. F. Jones. I. Goodall. E. \Y. jj Foot© and R. W. Sanft, was set up frame the board’s estimates for thyear ending March 31, 1931. Mr. George Winstone renewed h - offer to provide a playing area in R*v kill Bark and equip it with suitabl apparatus for children. He asked wh< : he could expect the board to supply tho details of the layout of the par'. The clerk. Mr. J. Warren, explained that as Mr. Winstone had not yet cor veyed the land to the board, the lath was precluded from expending monc\ on what was still private property. Mr. George Tansley, a present member and ex-chairman of the board, wl through illness has been absent, fror the board's meetings for several week' past, wrote expressing his thanks i * members for their expressions of sympathy, and conveyed the appreciation of ratepayers in Pah Road for the excellent work done by the board in the: district.

A suggestion by the Amalgamate! Brick and Pipe Company that a tria; be given to brick paving on the boarifs roads was endorsed by th< board, tho Works Committee to select two chains on an approved road aru th© work to be. carried out at the cor: pany’s expense. Gratification was expressed at tl: liberal grant of £IOO and the promi* of a further £l5O by the Onehung Borough Council toward the upkeep o r Hillsborough Road, leading to the borough’s cemetery.

An application by a taxi-cab company for permission to install telephones at taxi stands at Greenwood * Corner and Royal Oak was granted.