GATTLE TICK

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume L, Issue 8002, 6 June 1922, Page 4

GATTLE TICK

PATROLLING THE BOUNDARIES, (n it fere nee to the proposal that the boundaries, between tne clean and the cattle-tick infested areas, should bo guarded by sub-inspec-tor;;, the Cook County Council received from the Department of internal Afl'aiis an acknowledgement of the Council’s letter estimating the cost cf the erection cf wliares for the guards at .£630, and the annual cost cf maintenance at £615, and intimating that the Counties. of- Waikoku, Uawa, i.Tatakaoa and Waiapu were co-operating in the matter. The letter from the Department a.-dio dthe council to say whether it was proposed that the expenditure incurred should be divided between the Councils of (he counties mentioned; and further stated that upon receipt of the reply the matter would receive instant attention. A further letter from the Department acknowledging an answer from i he Council in the affirmative, intimated that under these circumstances the Minister would be prepared to introduce legislation validating the expenditure. “This means to say that we have got all we wanted.’’ said the chairnan, Mr G. M. Reynolds, and he added that all that remained to be done was to request the counties of Waikolm and Matakaoa, through winch the boundaries ran, to supervise the patrols.