COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15896, 9 May 1917, Page 12

COUNTY COUNCILS.

HEATHCOTE,

There iccro present *t. a meeting of tho Ileathcoto County Council on Monday night Crs C. K1 £•>'<: 11 (chairman,', G. K. Burton, B "'Wilson, J* Put ten, J. K. Cooksley, and. W~. ScaxfT. t Tho l-'ir.ar.co Committee reported tic County Fund as .having u debit balaco of X 2200 12a Id. and recommended for payment accounts amounting to £19S 13a od. It. stated tii.it the Cliristchurch City Council had agreed to pay the portion o£ the Domaiu Board's levy on the areas of tho County incorporated in tho city, aiso that arrJuigcmentß had been made io r lac lease of two rooms in a new building in Mandator etroot at a rental of i6O per annum for three vears. It also for-.varded a recommendation "that ' tlw. TC-orErajiiwtion of the offico, oi-c., should iako sis from June lit, tho Countv Clerk's salary to be £-230 per annum. Mr Gcorse Scott had agreed to repwaotU the Council on the Technical Colics© Board of Governors. The report wiu- adopted. Cr. Burton saym? it was true that the county's balance-sheet had a wci-o favourable aspect. C r b. Wilson urgod thai th« a salary ihou'id "not be reduced. The Works and hlcctricAl Commi ..tee reported that o. notice had been advertised that application, had been maa? under tbo Lak c Coleridge Water Power Act for authority to raise a Joan, -not to exceed iloOi). fn' the purpose o: installing e-ioctric lipht in. tho Arotisido ridir.?, aho that >Lr J. _ M. Hooter had b«*n selected as vrorking- loreman. The report was adopted. The Countr Clerk reported that the PubJc Works Department's acwmnt- ior Cashmere chanso over Ui Coleridge current had bteen re. fcrred to Mr Templin, -who is in commTuneation with the Department. T-wo buildin? permits to a total value oi £167, had then issued, and one fresh electric feht connexion had been made in the Valley, and one ir. Bromley. Speaiing 1 -with regard to a resolution from the Alexandra Boronsh Council relative to ti» payment of adequate pensions for soldier" Cr. Buxton 6aid that councillors -were elected to deal with local, not purely t>actional matters. He moved that the letter be -received. The motion, tvas carried.