TRAMS TO ROSKILL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1019, 9 July 1930, Page 14

TRAMS TO ROSKILL

“CONCRETING LOAN VITAL” ROAD BOARD MEETS Correspondence from the Local Government Loans Board, received by the Mount Roskill Road Board last evening?, authorised the taking of a poll of ratepayers on the Question of raising a loan of £17,000 for the reconstruction of Three Kings Road, preparatory to the laying of tramway tracks by the Auckland Transport Board to the intersectiori of Mount Albert Road. The plans provide for two strips of concrete paving, the formation of footpaths and laying of water mains. The term of the loan is fixed at 20 years, with a sinking fund of i> per cent. The rate of interest is to be 52 per cent. August 6 is the date appointed by the board for the poll to be taken. As this is also the date fixed for the Transport Board’s loan, the two bodies will share the cost of the polls in the Mount Roskill district. A strong deputation headed by Mr. \V. A. Phillip attended the meeting and assured the board of its hearty cooperation in getting the loan proposals carried, and suggested that public meetings be held in the district. The chairman, Mr. E. F. Jones, declared that the question of efficient transport was vital to the district and that if the poll were not carried Mount Roskill’s progress would be seriously retarded. Mr. George Tansley, chairman of the parks and reserves committee, who is ill, wrote to say that the clerk, Mr. J. Warren, was quite right in advising the board at its last meeting that it could not spend any money on the reserve at the top of Roskill Mountain, set aside by Mr. George Winstone for a playing area. The land had been vested in the Crown and did not belong to the board, he said. He suggested that steps should be taken to have this area, together with other reserves in the district, vested in the board and that a clause to this effect be inserted in the washing-up Bill at the close of the present session. Mr. Tansley’s suggestion met with unanimous approval. In response to a request by the Harbour Board for a refund of rates on an endowment at Waikowhai, which had recently been declared a public domain, the road board decided to reply that it had no power to make any such refund. Referring to Sir Joseph Ward’s death. Mr. Jones described the dead statesman as the most outstanding figure in the political arena for the past 4U years.