OHINEMURI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 159, 7 July 1899, Page 3

OHINEMURI COUNTY COUNCIL.

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)

PAEROA, Thursday.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council was held to-day, there being present Councillors Cock (Chairman), Boler, MeAndrew, McClelland, Stackpole, Moore, McGruer and Shaw.

Notice of motion by Cr. Stackpole that the resolution of the Council limiting- all new contracts to £30 be rescinded was put and carried.

The following tenders were accepted:—Filling and carting GOO cubic yards of metal on the Walkiuo-Waihi Road, R. McLeod, £27; quarrying- and breaking 300 cubic yards 4-inch spalls, Golden Cross Road, S. Whit-worth, £50 12/6; quarrying and breaking 500 cubic yards 4-inch spalls, Golden Cross Road, J. Davis, £47 18/4 (this is just half the Engineer's estimate); rebuilding culverts and repairing bridges Te Aroha-Paeroa Road, Gorge section, W. L. Buchanan, £45 7/.

A special Council meeting was held to confirm the resolution passed previously altering the Council by-laws regarding hawkers' licenses from £ 1 to £5, and hawkers with carts from £2 to £10. This was carried unanimously.

The question of the redistribution of members and alteration of boundaries of ridings of the county as carried at the last meeting came up for confirmation. Considerable discussion took place, several Councillors holding that Nethcrton should be retained as one of the ridings, and that Paeroa riding should have only two members. A motion to that effect was defeated on the casting vote of the Chairman, Crs. Stackpole, Boler, Moore and MeClelland voting for it, and Crs. Cock, j McGruer, McAndrew and Shaw against. The motion was then confirmed. Abattoirs.—The committee appointed to inspect several sites offered for erecting these reported that they considered the site owned by the Council near Mackaytown the most suitable, and the Council decided to keep that site. The County Engineer supplied plans and specifications of the proposed abattoirs at an estimated cost of £650. The Chairman stated that the Council's Engineer and Inspector had gone to great trouble to obtain aIJ necessary data, and these plans were thoroughly up to date. The Council decided to call for tenders returnable at next meeting for the buildings. Kenny-st., Waihi. —The Engineer's report stated that this street required metalling in the spring at an estimated cost of £3GO. The Council decided to have the work done in the spring, and meantime that the road be kept in repair. The Engineer recommended that 1000 yards metal be broken in Paeroa. Resolved to have the work done. The Engineer stated that 40 chains of the Waihi-Tauranga Road was not in the surveyed line, and recommended that it be rectified. Metalling and spawling of the worst parts of the road would cost £650. The matter was adjourned. A reply was received from the Government re the supply of stone from Omahu. They would supply it at 7/9 per yard for broken metal, 2J (neh, 5/ for spawls delivered at Paeroa. It was decided that an endeavour be made to obtain good metal in the district.