THAMES COUNTY COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 188, 8 August 1903, Page 6

THAMES COUNTY COUNCIL.

At a monthly mooting last evening it was decided to join in with the petition to the Government asking that an area of 20,000 acres should be set aside on the Piuko Block for a special settlement. A request Itoui .Air J. SVhitehouse, that the engineer should attend to the clearing ot slips in the Matatoke drain, was approved. A request from Messrs Faithful and McConnell for assistance in opening up the Manjraroa track, Upper Tairua, was complied with. The secretary of the General Post-office, Wellington, notified the estabment of a post and telephone office at Kauaeronga Valley. At the request of Mr Vinctint' Allen, secretary of a syndicate which is conducting prospecting operations in the Otanui district, the engineer was instructed to make" the Otauui track passable. Mr J. J. Hay (assistant engineer in the Public Wojfks office, Paeroa), reported as to the sites for the proposed ferry service over the Thames River. He had inspected the site at Turua, another lower down the river near the old telegraph towers; and the one at Kopu, and of the three he ■ favoured most the site near the telegraph towers. He suggested, however, that a better plan would be to have a large punt and work it with an oil launch. After couconslderuble discussion the country engineer was instructed to report on the cost of obtaining and making a road or roads on the best sire for a ferry service at Turua. Settlers in the Matatoke district petitioned the Council to extend the boundary of the present Matatoke drainage area to the ThamffS-l'aeroa road on the east and on the south to the boundary of the property known as Marshall's Farm, thence along the ?aid boundary line until it joins the Thames River in the west, thence along the river until it joins the north boundary of Marshall's property, and along the northern boundary until it joins the Thames-Paeroa road in the east. It was resolved that the Council should proceed by special order to extend the t boundaries as requested.