LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6591, 20 January 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

According to a notice ia theGu the Otaimatua It ail way- station ft adjoining or passing through Mn tawa Nos 11,0, 8, 7b, 7c, and ft moa No 2, section 2b, has been dot! a county road. The oversee- reporserl to theßofc County Cou&cil ou Friday last a contract work on the I'awhenmffl was progressing very slowly, 1 being about ten days' work yetl done to complete it. I The Borough Council will lm special meeting ou Monday dJ 7.15 p m to decide the day on t the ha If holiday wilt be obsert dfoi following year. A frequent visitor at, the Tirnedi facetiously asked yesterday win we attached any significance fa banner Pay I Pay! Pay! flying the flag pole of the Towq HalL even went; so far as to suggest tin! words had apparently been adopt the Borough motto. We m heard that this was the case, but haps His Woiship has hid Si through in Committee. A notice appears ia a recent iw| the Gazette, givi&g the consent M Governor in Council to the rwm a Imn of £4,300 by the Ttdjjj Borough Council, and also «£xl £600 by the T auranga County Co J Recent arrivals staying at tiltl Hotel include: —Messrs O'Mww Abbot, Auckland; Lamison, Botfl Molly, Ngaraawahia; Summe&fl Aroha; and Allan McDwal&tfl The overseer reported to th&lB rua County Council last wtrifl several culverts on the Huifl Road were blocked, and thesaj man had been instructed to m The s.s Kahu ot the Richardwl Napier, arrived in port \rtm having on board 150ironbsjiB graph poles for tho Telegftffl partmeiit, Te Puke, ani sixty tim Gold Top ale. ;.. I Mr Gamman wa'tedftn thilftj ta County Council'at it* mMjHfl .week, and detailed the work«J the direction of linking up !*■ and Taurang* by road, >M/J the Council's assistsncointhtlfl The Council deferred action. ■ A letler was read attheluMjß of the Cambridge Chamber «■ ',merse from Mr W D AyaoßfMjjJ secretary of the Taunug^Wß Kailway Committee, who ipH would endeavour to come * f B bridge during January toJfB matter before anyone interw^ff fersbly at a public meeting; X At the last meeting of the^W County Council, Mewre Dallimore, solicitors, Ca«bri«W appeared for the Council iMW for rate<» against the Man<^B Ltd, in Iho Supreme Court atft|J reported that in the claim*?'?J Council was non-suited, ana «J damus was ordered to i&W,jm Council alter the rate book W*m Company is affected, to fajvm uation. The letter also s^'J judge commented on the ipiP*Rß the actions, and he at one^SS tomnvH thecaars intotbl^B Appeal but as both parses ffJJB to agree to this step, hep«)!M as above. We are d&ub|»»Jjß the judgment is good "kjjjEß broad ground that the 'f^H judgment thus means ihwffjß authority whose ratingpiW^™ on a Government valuataj* g» upon its inquiry to satwfrgM the Government ValuatiottiJlJ» I has carried out its dut^i.Jß correct assumption, you ffj^B the serious eflect of the i uS|B view of a possible ?PP**^j-^B that your Council > sfcr?spß other CouDsel's opinion J*JgW or Auckland, and if safl?S« view to lodge notice r^SgJB Council went into solved to instruct Mr W\3pjjiß Mr JSkerrett aud re^S^B meeting. -TSS'B