MATAMATA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 135, 8 June 1911, Page 6

MATAMATA.

MATAMATA rOI'NTT COTSTCTT-i. The monthly mepting nf tbp Council wns held at Tirau on Monday. A special rate of 1-T.ri in the £ was stnvck for the Prow's Nest deviation nt Manngatnutiiri. and one of 5-37(1 in the £ for the work at the Whnngarau Swamp. Informntion was received thnt the Covornment liad approved of n loan of £.V>o fnr the Mauncatantari riiud; nlso fi">r A.' i 'fc~>* *t or r*">:i <i pons true t ion. 'Die Government also notified the Council that it -was prepared tr> grant n subsidy, up to rrr>. for the T»n:ip.i water supply, on the £ for £ h.i.ois. Mr WrtjrW wrote statinc he had c.il.-.t .-«1 £.Vi to further the pmjrrt. ' The work i< tn l.c |ii]i in hand without fiirther delay. Section ~C> of the Selwji! sottlemeut is to lie set apart as a stork pmldoi-k. Thi-rc w:\s a somewhat lively iltsriißslnn oviT the vexed question of where Hie hrlrtstp ir- to he rrPrtPil nvor tlie VTaiomo sii-cnni, at Matamata. T!ip assistant-secre-lai-.v or the Public Works Department wrote that a petition hud been received protesting against the proposal to divert the vote of £24*1 for the erection of a hrlrtpo over the Waiomo stream on the Kaimai-road to a slip on the I.ii-hrteld Te A rob a-road: and stiitins that the money had been voied for a hrirtu'e on the former site. The Tanninga Chamber nf f'ommTOp also wroto protestinir asainst the proposed deviatlou of the ~ divert from tile settlers of Okauia and Matamata in favour of the erection of tho hridse on the old site. viz.. on the, Te Ar.»h:i-road The chairman said the money h.-ul been voted in the first place for tho election of :i brM-.:e on the Te Aroha Llch-fii-ld road mid bad later been diverted to the- Raima! site The former proposal was be-t f r th.> settlers, best for the Matamata Council and best for the greatest number. The bridge would cost less, and the difflerence by Ihe formation of a connection to be made from the Kaimai track would euit Mil parties. If a bridce was pat up at • Manuel's it would bo with Government money a'nii not with the Council's toads, as > lorn: a* he was chairman. A very lenpthy discumiion ensued, and eventually it was decided to hold the matter over, the chair- . man, the members for the ridiner. arid ' settlers interested lo meet on the cite on a day appointed, to s.'o Into the matter, the ' opinion bein- that an amicable settlement would be arrived at on the basis sußgested ' by the chairman.