CARRINGTON ROAD AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 July 1907, Page 2

CARRINGTON ROAD AFFAIRS.

THE LOAN i'KUi'OSALS CAiUUKD. As oxpccled there was a good poll of lliij Carnnglou road ratepayers yesterday to vole upon tlie proposal to borrow .C27W under the Loans to Local .Bodies' Act for Ihe purpose of widening Victoria road by the acquisition of private hind fur this purpose. ilOOO; tlie cutting down and re-grading of ftatauui Hill and extending the metal on tlie Uirnuglun road at the inland end of the district, .C 1000; the metalling of two portions of Brooklands road between Avenue and Carrington road, jCiBO; the formation and part metalling of the Mil road, JJ2OO (supplemented by £IOO from .Mill road ratepayers). The matters had been fully threshed out at several meetings of tile ratepayers, and the position laid bare. T.ie Head Hoard appointed -Mr C. X. .Hills reluming ollieer' lor tlie pull, and he carried out his duties thoroughly and with despatch, *,, result of lite pull being announced h..:.' minutes after the closing of the booth. There was (juite a muster of interested people < to bear the aiinounecmuut of the jo- ( suit. Out of 172 votes exercisable 121 : were cast, for the proposal there were ' '■> i, against. 2(1. This easily gave .iu* ' reuuircd tliree-iifths majority, and the ' propositi, were declared carried. ConMdeiing that fully thirty of the rale- J payers are not now resident in or * about .Sew Plymouth the number ef ' votes cast was proportionately large, r| u fair index of the amount of interest t taken in the matter. i

Tile Carrington Jtoud Board intends inking early steps to let the dill'crcnt contracts so that the work will all i>c undertaken and completed during tiie forthcoming summer. T|io completion of these improvements should still further enhance the popularity of Vogcltown as a, residential suburb.