COUNTY AFFAIRS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13236, 11 January 1941, Page 3

COUNTY AFFAIRS

monthly meeting of W COUNCIL REPORTS and decisions matahata-tauranga ■ HAA highway , monthly meeting of the Tau--11,8 County Council was held yesJ' allga vhen there were present Cis. Gunio.. in the chair) J. D. S. a Rragg B. H. Hughes, J. A ’ a , K i W. McClinchie. M '* tettei- was received from the A , notifying that considerareaSUlc being l S iven the issue of f ( !j n Council for the recontheS„n and resealing of the TauS Matamata main highway. Inspector’s Report r hi. report the County Inspector , “ Tnriey) stated that 48 traffic licences and 2 7 drivers hea ;, es had been issued. Testing of 1 fjlicants for drivers’ licences f e ;; b een undertaken from the office 1 ~!c!) at Te Puke, and the check?“'ip of motor traffic was tmde.1. on December 2G. The general ,i ,Dt of the motoring public was ““ "‘"i “J leave no room tor comS £‘‘knd “safety first” was a point S’nottohly ohserved by motor,sl y ie ht building permits had been kMiVd for dwellings or additions to existing dwellings to the value or 'i- A 405 In addition to this a permit'was' for a new post office " , uvin-v accommodation at Katia I the value of £6,106 10s. Two drainage permits were also is'e(l These jobs had received infections at intervals during conc ruction and drainage had been inspected and tested . An application ter a master drainlayer licence to operate in the County was also issued This made a total of 15 licences issued to drainlayers to operate in the county area. Food premises had also been inspected. Inspections had also been undertaken for the Mount Maunganui Town board and the Te Puke Borough Council.

Report of Engineer

The report of the County Engineer (Mr T. Moorhouse) stated that the weather was. fair on the whole but was rather broken just before Christmas. There was a particularly heavy flood in the Katikati Riding where flood damage was fairly extensive. Flood damage elsewhere was not great. The cleaning up of the most urgent flood damage before Christmas coupled with the short working month owing to the Christmas holidays curtailed ordinary maintenance and special works somewhat. County Highways Tauranga-Matamata: Holes in seal repaired on Tauranga-Barkes corner section and edges graded in. Te Puna-Omokoroa. —Received 69 yds. of Te Puna Quarry metal! Rotorua Direct. —This road was' patched with 31 yards of McFadgens quarry rhyolite which was put on small spallsize and crushed and consolidated by rolling in place. The entire road was graded just before Christmas. Repairs to Tautau bridge practically completed before Christmas and bridge now finished. Upper end of road will require scrubbing before the winter. Papamoa-Mount: Received seven days’ grading by planer in December, and also further frequent grading over the holiday season early this month. Scrub cut at Te Maunga station entrance.

Paengaroa-Maketu: Graded by Planer and received 45yds. of Waihi P't pumice shingle and requires a lot more. More of this shingle is beIn S put on this month. Paengaroa-Te Ngae: Culvert outfits cleaned and scrub cut back on w ii!- Ua , end - Received 258 yds. of 'alln pit pumioe-shingle in a thin a ,, on a h hills—this has set down Vas graded by planer and season freciuently during holiday