BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1920, Page 8

BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

RAISING OF A SPECIAL LOAN". ' STREET IMPROVEMENTS. ir. T \t General .Purposes Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council met last night. Present: The Mayor (Mr. Jas. Clarke), and Crs. .T. W. Havden F J. Hill, W. F. Short, W. A. Collis. A. S*. Brookor, J. L, Parkin, and S. Griffiths. The Works Suh-Committee recommended: That steps he taken to raisj a special loan ot £"i.",000 at a rate of interest not exceeding 5J per cent- with a sinking fund of H per cent, additional, such loan to be repayable on the Ist April, 1933, and to be for the following purposes:— r £ Street improvements, including T>hwt, etc 40.000 j Public conveniences ......... >; ... 0.000 ' Extension watermains <;.-... v.* 10,000 Extension sewers Note'.—-Further particulars in Tegard' to the above proposal are eet out hereunder:-^ r £ Plant as per engineer's schedule of 27th February ........... 14,500 Public conveniences (say) 2,000 Street widening claims " > 2I0OJ) Footpaths as per schedule to be decided by Council later .... 5,000 Street improvements as per schedule to be decided by Council later '. 14.000 Extension 'watermains 10,000 Extension seweTs and preparing plans and levels for complete scheme 3,000 First year's interest and raising loan • ;.*...... 4.500 Total 4 V..T.-..T.; r .-E55,000 In connection with the streets ami footpaths items It Is proposed that the borough engineer shall submit estimates ■ of:— (1) Extra money required to complete works comprised in the £IO,OOO streets loan schedule of last year. Ed (2) The cost of works necessary in 50 the Fitzrrsr. Central. Voseltown, and 15 Frankleich Park, Breakwater, and Wesed town Street areas. y, It was recommended the poll on ry these woposak should be taken on the !8] same day as the poll in connection witli 2 the hydro-electric extensions- Rea3 ceived. ''y THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE. The Carnegie Institute Committee recommended:—' iw That the West End School Committee ad he informed that in view of the. hicrli cost of books and the fact that the Oar- — negi'e Tnstitue Committee has establishn- ed a children's library, the Committee resrrets it has no books available for distribution to th» irablic schools. That the Committee place on record its sincere thanks to the Mavoress and the nther ladies associated with her who were instrumental in raising funds for the library and museum on Mart Dav, the 6th inst.. and that the chairman _ (Mr. W. H. Skinner) be authorised tc forward a letter to the Mayoress to that effect. I That a letter of thanks he forwarded to Mrs. Arden, Frankley Road, for bet generous gift of ten original sketches by the late Mr. Arden of the old Taranaki forts, and to Mrs. T. Hood. Dawson Street, for her gift of a small oil painting of Mt. Egmonfc The report war received. LOAN FOR MEMORIAL PROPOSAL. A proposal that the law should be amended to enable a local body to raise a loan for a memorial to fallen soldiers came before the Council in a letter from the Invercargill Boromh Council. The Town Clerk of Tnvercargill wrote statin? that at a public meeting ther? for the purpose of considering the erection of a memorial to fallen soldiers, the question arose as to the beßt method of raisinsr funds. Although it was recognised that a memorial built with money raised voluntarily was greatlv to be desired, it was nevertheless the opinion of the meeting that an adequate sum could not be so collected without having recourse to art unions, etc. Eventg ually it was decided that the fairest. I simplest, and most satisfactory way I would he to entrust the work to the J Borough Council to carry out by means » of a loan as a public work.' at the same time giving even-one an opportunity to contribute, and providing for a . poll of the ratepayers, both on the loan m proposal and also on the nature of the memorial itself. The Council, therefore, submitted the following proposed amendment to the Local Bodies Loans Act, 1913: "Within the meaning of the principal Act the' erection or construction or contribution to the erection or construction, either within or beyond the boundaries of the local authority. of a memorial to persons who served or died in the service of the recent past war shall be a. public work for which a. special loan may be raised by ianv local authority." It was decided to support the proposal. HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD. Mr. (?. W- Rogers, clerk to the Egmont Courtv Council, forwarded a copy of tho following resolution passed at a recent, meeting of that Council: "That the New Plymouth Borough Council be requested to convene a meef.inq; of all local bodies with a view to forming a Hydro-Electric Power Board for the whole of Taranaki." The matter was referred to the Electric Light Committee. _ GENERAL. The Works Sub-Committee recommended that the borough engineer be Authorised to tar seal Rover Street from •k> Devon Street to Oill Street.—Received. ne. An application that Nob's Line, a length of road that was closed some w . years ago. should bo re-oncned was made ' liy Mr. E. Griffiths—The mnfter was held over pending the opinion of the Council's solicitors being obtained.