Te Aroha Borough Council.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43071, 21 March 1907, Page 3

Te Aroha Borough Council.

SPECIAL MEETING. the Traffic bridge loan.

A special meeting of the' Borough Council was hold last night for the pur-pose-of taking further steps" in conueo - tion with the raising of the loan for the purpose of defraying part of the cost of erecting a traffic bridge at Te Aroha. Present: His "Worship the Mayor (R. L. Somers, Esq ), Councillors J, Rowe. ( £;,, Mo / ndoe - W. Hetherington, P. ] • O Meagher, G, Spence. I ®****ro Bridge Loan.— The Clerk!

read a letter which had been received “,°™ Colonial Treasurer, approving of the provisional application of the Te Aroha Borough Council for powers to raise a loan of £3OOO towards the erection of a traffic bridge at Te Aroha. The money would be loaned by the Gevemunder the Local Bodies Loans Act, 1901, interest and sinking fund being paid up in forty-one years at the rate of four per cent, per annum. The following resolution was then proposed by the Mayor That in accordance withifie provisions cf section 14 of the Local 7 Bodies Loans Act. 1901, and

section 118 of the Pablio Works Act, 1905, and for the purpose of providing the amount necessary to enable the Te Aroha Borough Council to comply with •such order as may be made by the Governor said section of the said last mentioned Act authorising the construcnon of a traffic bridge at Te Aroha, the Te Aroha Borough Council hereby re » solves, to raise and borrow from the Colonial Treasurer, under part 'll, of the said .Local Bodies Loans Act, 1901. a Special Loan of £3,000, the security for which shall be a special annual recurring rate for forty-one years of fivepence per £ upon the rateable value (on the basis of annual value) of the rateab’e property ra the borough of Te Aroha, which pro> "viding interest at four per cent, per

annum for the period aforesaid pays off the loan, and that there may be paid out of such loan the cost of raising same but not the interest for the first year. Cr O’Meagher seconded, the motion being duly put and carried. The Clerk explained that the special rate of fid in-the £ would more than pay the interest on the £3,000, but it was necessary for such rate to be struck to yield ten per cent more than the aotual amount required. Although the Council would he authorised to borrow £3,000, the advantage in obtaining it from the Government was that only the actual amount found to be required would need to be taken, and that as it might be found that only £2,500 would actually be required, the Council might only take and pay on that amount: As the borough reuenue increased it might not be necessary to collect the special rate, hut it. must be struck as security for the loan. It. was lesolved that the application for special order be confirmed at the next

month’s ordinary meeting, which it was decided should be held on Friday, April 19th. It.will still be two months before the application can be made for the loan, as preliminary formalities will not be complete until then. It was said that the cost of the bridge vould be about £6,200. at Kenrick•treet. Cr Spence bad an idea that it would >e cheaper io lengthen the bridge and lispense with a large amount of the filing, but it was pointed out that bridging vas expensive than filling, and that ;o extend the bridge so as to do away vith all the filling would make the cost 012,000. On the unanimous vote of all who were treseut, it was decided that several other uatt-rs should, be dealt with by the Council. Electric Light. —The borough elecriciiiu (Mr A. T. Crosher) reported that wo stoppages of the electric light plant lad occurred, one on Saturday and one u Monday He pointed out that these rare caused by some unauthorised person taving turned off part of the water apply to the reservoir: As the interrupions were quite avoidable had proper recautions been taken, and were preudicial- to his reputation and to the üblic electric lighting supply of the own, he asked that in order to ensure ninterrupted supply, that no one should iterfere with the plant without his per. bission. Foreman Dierck, who was present at he meeting, said that Mr McKee, the ontractor who was doing some alteraions at the reservoir overflow, could not 3ave the full supply running, as it rould have washed away all his trestles.

1 1 Dierck also called attention to the ict that the electrician made no mention f the time when he (Dierck) had gone p to the fluming and found it choked rith leaves, which he had cleared out. During further discussion it was agreed hat the electrician should .occasionally ispect the fluming to see that the water yas assumed. OjFSlolndoe thought it was the duty of le electrician to see the fluming clear iter a storm. The Mayor said that now the leaves •ere falling an inspection of the fluming lould be made, say once a week by the lgineer. ' Pr Mclndoe said that the report lowed that the borough electrician took is work seriously, and that the Council izht to uphold the principle contained t his request! All present agreed'with lis view, whereupon Cr Mclndoe moved iat “No work of either alteration or ctension of the electric light plant be adertaken without first notifying the ectrician, and that the borough elecician be responsible for the safe running i the plant. This was put and carried. > Footpaths. —The foreman asked for' structions in connection with the foot- . ith now formed andkerbedin reet from the Hot Springs Hotel to azelwnpo rtouse. Several crossings ere required, He did not recommend irthenware pipes but suggested iron leg. • Cy Rowe suggested wood fluming, and (is was adopted. With reference to tarring and sanding is footpath, and the one in Kenrick i|§pt, it was left to the Mayor, Works immittee, and foreman to view the otk and do what was necessary. {Mention was made of the slow process made with the tarring contracts. : Mclndoe thought it would be better r the Council’s own workmen to slip png with such work, as they would do in a tenth cf the time. It was said that the delay might preint some of the work being done, this ason, as it was getting late. The foreman explained that the conactor had had a difficulty in obtaining hour, and was now tackling the work one. .. ' - . . ’ . New Fxbe Station.—Plans and speci • sations for the new building" were laid l the table. Cr Mclndoe said tbe matter was really te of particular urgency, as it affected te fire brigade. _ It was left, to the Building Committee

I(Crs Devey and O’Meagher) to report on the matter at the next meeting. New Electorate. —The Mayor stated that he had communicated with the Colonial Secretary with a view to having Te Aroha fixed upoa as the chief polling place for the new Tauranga (or Piako) electorate. He had received a reply in which the Colonial Secretary stated that the matter would receive consideration. Cambridge Borough Council and Piako County Council were also in favour of Te Aroha as a centre. All the councillors present expressed great satisfaction at the move which the Mayor had made in this matter. Advertising. The Clerk was instructed to call tenders for the Council’s advertising.