MANUKAU COUNTY COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1922, Page 7

MANUKAU COUNTY COUNCIL.

ANNT'AL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Manukaii Ciiiiutv Council was held tills morning, the chairman i.Mr. A. U. Ilclll presiding. The chairman in his report said, inter alia, that In the l'lipatoetne riding several old bridges were to be renewed liy reinforced concrete structures, the money to be raised under the bridges renewal loan sanctioned some time ago. The steps to procure the money could not. however, be completed until the estimates for the bridges are got out. At Mangere the loan money grunted by the State Advances cltlice (tIS.OOO out of Ihe lotal authorised £.10.000) bus been nearly all expended on a distance of less than tiiree miles of road, (hit of the t'l7.r>oo spent, about £1030 was' expended on machinery, and there were assets in bitumen and metal worth about *;17.".0. The commence luenl of the work last season was delayed through the lateness in getting the crushing machinery installed at the quarry. Slops had been taken lo arrange tor proceeding willi the Wlri Station Hoacl metalling, and Maraetai Road contracts. The ratepayers from Ness Valley to Kaivakiiwn Hay were also arranging for a loan of £1000 for metalling, and the (Irere settlers intend lo follow -nil at an curly date. The Man gere Crossing waterworks scheme bad been completed at a cost of tTiliTO 14/0, leaving a balance of approximately £13:i0 to the credit of the loan account. Arrangements would have to be made to Invest tills balance to the best advantage.