WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 138, 11 June 1914, Page 9

WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL.

The monthly meeting of the Waitemata Couii-ry Council was en.__.uued yesterday afternoon after the ".star" went lo press. Air T". five presMing, TAKAPUNA AFFAIRS. A letter was received from the Takapuna Borough Council declining i<» lucci. ihe County Council at a conference on tnc subject of accounts outstanding between the two bodies, an! fuither .ledining t*. specify its objections to the County .•ou.ii_il*- ola-iins. 'The letter -was •■received" without discussion. The Takapuna Council also wrote asking that a conference with the Uarl. uir Board be arranged reS___ng a road to Barry's Point. The E__ necr explained that the Council had agreed to forrm a road to the site of a proposed wharf some years ago. but had apr__reni:!y forgotten ail abont it. and in the meanwhile the land had become part of Takapuna Borough. It was decided to axrungo for a comfercne... NARKOW ROAD. After some discussion, it was decided to permit Mr J. McKinley to put a new road ts.t wide through section ].-*. lot v.. Deep Creek, which he was suljditiding. OF-FETi. OF ROAD. ,T. Bulog and Co. wrote offrrin_ to give uhe land neee_sary for a short cut mad between Pomona and Kumeu station, and pay the cost of fen.ing. provided' the Cou-ncil would pay for certain culverts. The E-n-gineer stated that there were some lejral complications, and advised that aeeeptatK- ef the . ffer be deferred. T;. was ■ le.-ided to inform Bulog and Co. that the Council wonld take over Lhc land as soon as a title could be given. METAL SUPPLIES. Mr E. C. Beale -wrote offering the Council lirs: refusal of the right to quarry metal on a property of his at Waintauku. After some discussion, it. was decided thai the ridings interested should siip.-crtbe £1 ea.-h towards ihe cost of prospecting on the land with gelignite. PI HA SAWMILL. A letteT was received from tbe Raiiwny Department asking when the loan money allocated fo, the improvement of rhe Wes. Coast Road leading to the railway sawmill at hiha wa_ to i)v expended. . Mr A. Cochran stated that sufficient metal for the work had beeu got ready last summer, but no one eouTd be Rot lo .-art it. It was resolved to defer the matter till next Minrmer, when the work couid i>c._one ou with WATER RESERVE. T.he County solicitors notified that the Order-iu-Counoil authoris-iDg tiie closing of roads across the W'aitakero watershed had been gazetted, and i Let they had nowasked the An_k:ai_l ( ity Council to complete its part of the transaction a_d pay i.ver the L.mpen^utiun. HOSPITAL LEVY. A ieti.-r was rc.-cive.l from the Auckland Hospital ttoard notifying that tliC levy r..n :hc .o.intv for hospiial an.l charitable a i.i purposes iii l!il. !."> was i"S_n in . The • ounty clerk-remarked ih,il he had <lr:.ecte,T an error 111 the Board's estimate which Would have brought the levy'up to about fit/in if it had been allowed to p..__.

Vlr V. Kerr-Taylor s-_ iri he consl.les-ed thai the -isses-smcnt was ailogether :.».. nigh, considering that the inhabitants "f th.. ( _nnt.T used Ihe hospital but little. The '■l:..irtn-in. .is the county's delegate 1.. the Hospital Board, did cot agree with this, and pointed out that ihe actual rate had cone down from I fid 1o 2 i_d in ..he

i. The hos-pltal. he said, w-as managed as e.-onomicrilly as possible, rh-oitgh the cost of aTI necessaries was going up. Other mr-mtes stated that they knew- of __any ■ _.__ in which people residir. tn the eotrnt.y had received )_rh hospi-al treat-merit .._i charitable aid. w-hile hospital were always remitted in really itecessiiotis oases. FROWN Tl__BFl- flAl_E-. The Forornandel County rvm-ncil wrote for the Council's co-operation in an endeavour to recover from the T.__id-s D. part.ir.er.r .i .half-share in the proceeds of a recent sale of Crown timber i-n the two cotmties. The letter stated that the best obtainable letral opinion was to ihe effect that tbe local authority w__ eotitled to 150 per cent of the proceeds, -bur this was I denied by the Department- ft was resolved to defer the matter for a month. I TAKAPUNA ST->?fE CTtCSHER. I On the motion of Mt V. Kerr-Taylor, it ! was agTeed to accept an offer of £70 for i the stone crusher at Takapn-na. subject to | the approval of the Borongh Contral, -yhich ; also has an -interest in this plant