PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 179, 2 August 1887, Page 7

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

leasiM of CouawTrainway, Etc.

uvw" — r — Hamilton, Saturday. rMfa onthly ffi eetingof the above Council L held here to-day. Present: -Cm Siarns (Chairman), Gould, Cbepmdl, W and BrinskilL CowSderable disP Clerk read a lengthy statement i t SSmio received and anticipated, "hTSIb c liabilities, the conclusion mtcfat bSJthat from present appeartL levvin" of a general county rate S^Sfrle avoided. A letter rehv Mr J B Whyte-wasreadin reply KJ Km him to the" Minister of Mines, \ /that balance due on prospecting S gTeA-oSbe paid, bo he effect that more money would be forthcoming until •^^S reduced to ?n A letter was read from Mr E. Y. Cox, aChairman of a pubUc meeting ot ratdlers gently held at Sim tesbury, forSna scries of resolutions to the SKftab the L 1,650 recently borrowed L make the Te Aroha - Shaftesbury•idon Settlement road had been most widirimislv expended, and requesting £ riitte? from the Council be tinted; to inspect the work done. The Stot was disouased, but nothing ■lone in the direction asked for. Ihe Wiiordrigomai county tramway showed ' credit balance for the past monih if IM 7a (By-the-bye, it may be hete mentioned, that the statement published in L "Herald" of July 18th,to the effect that teeworkiiig of this tramway involved an uinual loss of L6OO to LI.COO, is totally in correct arid misleading. Let the write? produce ficores in support of the statement, md tlien "ihe public can judge as to tßa ; correctness thereof. .The tramway, for . wme time pastjhas more than paid working sxpsnses. At the meeting to-day, the idlkmng letter was read, under date July " Clerk Piako County Council. Sir,—l bave Been requested by Mr Warden Srat(ord to write to you, stating that if the pnbliyied reports in the newspapers, " That ihe Chairman of thePiako County Council inthori^ea ari' additional clause to the cpnditiops , -imposed by Jbbe , Council wd approved by the "Warden, relieving till sbb-lessee of the burden of coi^ tiaijd^sly.makinfj good any wear and tear, etc., etc.," are true, then the Warden begs to take exception to any such additions or tfifeHdments, and I am to add that he will not register a transfer or assignment of any lease differing from the draft lea3e fdrtStdgd to him by your Gouneil for approval. iie'Warden will refrain from commenting oil M 'Chairman's action until the report ia ' confirmed.—l have, etc., Geoeue Wilsox, !4tek Warden's Court. A letter was read from the clerk of th£ ; Battery Company, dated July 29fch, sfcatii^r ; that tie Company were prepared now lc ; agti the deed of lease without insertion c' ■ "■ " wear and tear " clai"=°