LEVELS COUNTY COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11009, 5 July 1901, Page 2

LEVELS COUNTY COUNCIL.

The monlhlj' meeting of the L.t*l| g County Council *.\a_. held in Timaru on WftsU § nesday, Mr ('. H. Orbell (chairman) pr*. s siding. The Chairman was appointed J gate to iepre.ent the Lb.-els Council at tJba 1 Confeienee of representatives <*tf Cou__ty _| Council's to be hold in Wellington, to con. "" . sider the proposed new Counties Bill,- and }' also to mttend the meeting of the Gbugbp- | Couroils' Association. Mr McLaren djjqw j attention to tin fact that the Ho?_ W. % j Steward luiil written to thf. County Council, asking them to'fo , t>w&( ] to the Government any claims to whidh. - j considered they were entitled for the ' tifo.' J keep of liiad.-.' and oth«r matters in tbs ' county. If the Government were gams* te ' make'snch grants, this Council should bar. n m the plunder. The clerk was in* structed to write lo the Hon. Hall-Jonel amd Mr Flatman, M.H.R., asking tijepa to' use their influence in getting a grant for &_. , Council, similar to ithat which it the Hon. W. J- Steward could dbiaia far' the Mackenzie Council.. A petition, signaL-' by ratepayer., of tl. a Upper and Poxcoi.- and Otaio r-dings was receiver, j«a« questing the Council's assistaaice in pre*.* motion of Bill to secure the incorpo_?_K>n. in the county of Levels of tlnat part oi tie W<nmat~_ county bounded on t-lie socth by the Snringbaijk road, on the east by $_$"• sea. on the Avest by the present western" boundary of tho Otaio and Upper Partewa, riding of the Waimate county. In this ooj-'!' necl-on a deputation consisting of Mes«V G. 1-yall, A. S. Elworthy. and W. X#_v nedy." wasted on the Council to nrge u tilKi views set forth in the petition. Mr Ly*j_JL said that a petition had l>een signed _.**■ 1,41 ' ratepayers representing 80,000 acies, 30*ol tliie-e bring i*et>ident. on tlie other side of th* s Otaio river. It was decided, after a oW_s|" deal of discussion, that the necessary »w*p_p should be. taken to give effect to t-i» pray.* ; of the petition, provided the afea proposed! to be incorporated iin the levels county nob come over with a debt of. moreJihfN, 1 £sod.' ■-.';' ■ ■ .■';.'- • *