FRANKLIN COUNTY AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 60, 12 March 1926, Page 11

FRANKLIN COUNTY AFFAIRS.

MONTHLY MEETING. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PIPKEKOHE, Thursday. montihlT meeting of the Franklin County Council was held yesterday. The Public Trustee advised that applications for loans totalling f7930 were being considered by the Investment Board OrdeEs-in-Cpnncn were' resjd, authorising the rataing at tie foUowing loaned— Qulnn Road, £1400; Karlotahi Coast Hoad KIOOO; Tan» R Mru Road, i22OQ- Hall's Hermitage B.oa<l, R?ad, (£loO« Kesolntibns in connection Trtth the raising of looas for tab following'tracks were coni —'Urguhart's Bond, Karata, loan jt6oo; Creaineri-' Road, Welau Pa, loan, t'2OQO; VapariDiUnliappy Valley Road loan, £1250; and Koh'ekohe Main Road loan,"£2000 Hie itreasurer reported that tihe tefal debit balance -6? the cqu.nty fund account was £6128 1/T, ' ana that the fplJow?ng ridings were' in. debit:—Awhitu, f6T'BAl' X»rury, £2£H 2/3; Mercer, £VT 1576; Waiuku 18/5; and the following In credit: Hnnua, £41 17/1; Kar4t4, ilO3 16/1; Maukii, f175 16A; Pnketohe East i 267 1V1; Waipipl, mi 4/1. The expenditure pu road work in the cpunty "slncb Atwiri 1023, totalled £19,464 lg/9. Dp to date about 75 per cent of *Ue rates lerted for j tie year, had" been collected;'"

The engineer's report, besides diving particulars o£ the estimated cos.t of, proposed roacls"in various parts of the county, stated that it would be 'adrlsable to procnfe a gravel and stock rescrv* on pc Tipper eide of the Mansatangi Bridge in the Mercer riding. It was pointed opt that the supply £)f shipgle was almost unlimited, ana that the council's requirements' ttouM be "fulfilled fpc year? ana years. A sub-comniit-.set up with power to act. On the reeonimenda'tiion pf the ensipeer it" was agreeS" to obtain 2000 yards of shell for ißaintenance : work at KaraKa and Waiau Pa. '■'■■ ' " -.

■ The clerk and Counciljpr H, P. g^rlanil were asked to take steps to form a special rate area and raise a loan of £000 to metal Bald Hill and Barriball Roads, Puteoware,' Waluku. . 1 Claime totalling £12,638 2/4 were for-' warded to the Bubllc Worke" Department! fsft e«>«Wltnre ' ■ot Gorerriment grants and txibeidiee.