COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13378, 20 March 1909, Page 10

COUNTY COUNCILS.

— » ~^W£MGERALDINE. -. • ***&$& At the Geraldine County' last meeting "there were p*-_WBWF|I, Messrs J. Denniston (chairmaiij, 'ijfgfo Macdonald, A. Metoaif, A.'" S__M<fe,. W. Dixon, G. W. Armitage',' Grant. Before taking up tho ort_3«Jf;d' business a special meeting was' confirm a resolution passed at**»* ft* Jvious meeting that .the sinking tsond upon a special" £8000 be paid out of the ge__-albt_W^ "una. ... -'slip Mr Rollestton, chairman of t_-»*pnSp|_ Rangitata Water Race Com-_tt__ppj; ported a shortage of water at.the'lOtffp end of the district, caused to a ljU_pextent by the fall in the Orari' The intake at'the head works bad'tojlte'; lowered several times. Tho r * n s w <!?fesi pected to have tho water right ta*M&jß]Jjj in the course' Of a day or'tfro. - ••ftf-Eii; C Kelland, Who is supplied b-"""*Mp above-mentioned race, wrote comp!w*fc| ing that he hiid been without w_t«_«jfej over two month*, andhadMiffered'jjreir'i inconvenience, besides the loss andoiJßfj! age to sheep. ' Under tb© he asked for a refund 'of Ids ranger was "written to about, the __[j__hl| ter, and ho replied that the had been caused by damage the divide by young horses, now rectified. Mr Wm. Hide, man of .Pleasant Point district, rep*__*_||| ed plenty of water in all the j¥!vts~ The ranger of the Orari-Waihi <ht*ttMj_i stated there hail been a water during the month. RoufcA**Wi*j| having been without water times, ho had to go about a mile *f k. th-n river and get a supply from aMO. ther stream. Mr K. Mackenzie »*s| also been without water owing to,<J*»Tj-> age caused by horses. Ho M fencing part of the race to keep *H"iPjp horses off the banks. _ • -jA^ The maintenance and interest '____________»' for tlie various water district- *•¥%£. fixed as follows for 1009:— Orari, maintenance lid, interest Wjßrjf? Woodburv. 3d, 6-1 Od : Orari-W*uj»,3l«3-' |d; Geraldine Flat. 3Jd, Id; WmWS: Flat, 2d, 7-lGd. _?_!»1 The Council resolved that ' M *{S_*»' J , boards be put up at both end- of CaH* ('__ Valley Gorge, warning motorists JJJJ-jj-, traction engine owners that tbo wculd lie rigidly enforced. Mr "-J*?-* Armitage gave notice that at the _***•» .__ meeting of the Council he would *_o***_p~ that a vote of Jd in the pound *»£*,"« rateable property within the Gerald*"***? County be made, pavablo in one «• ou and after the loth day of MjJ» Ifo9, for the year ending 31st M»i**» 1910.