COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17809, 7 July 1923, Page 4

COUNTY COUNCILS.

... ... . • . •■. - » ~ ... ASHBURTON, - The monthly meeting of the .ssfc&jrtoa County Council was held yestsrdjry. P»W. /. LSI (ehahmsttf. A. J. Masse*, W. 6. (JalUgher. A. Horsey. IF. S. Bpttraon, D. 2. Morrow, J. Moo»», CL Beid, A, T. Liller, T. Btocktey.. H. B. C. WiJheH, and F. EraJßpiMß-, Tba chairman, in his he hfti attended tt» conference <& Swath IsiaadLocal BodiMr ia. Cfcristofcurch. arrtd Cr. Reid. .v•' A em* deal of dicuasioß took plaw, ,*»» » was (mil* •<sotv*d titst the tfovernnen* be recommended to appoint leptirste Highway Boards for both Inlands. In the upinion. of the chairman the Council abetuM protect agaisat the principle of the .Highway. Act. In regard to teiephojse ©oniMXiOM application* had been made to have, the houses of the caretakers at the CrtaroJt and Kiondyke lieadworks connected. The work hss not* a* yet, Jwejx-dons. A remit tad bees sent: to the Counties' AawxSiatSem. "Thst the Local Electrons and Foils A<A bo amended fo enable nominations to he sabemil..» month before the date of the election, ep that the raUs can- be printed only if xtqaixei."/ In oonnarion with the Bttspuna interest payments, the necosMry step* had 'itcca takea by the county totiatctr to have a ctfcose prepared for insertion in the Waahuig-C-p Bill to enable the CooneS, if desired, to pay in-, tercet ant of the, general account." A cianse had also been pra»«Ted whiKh, if passed,: mould enable the Council to transfer moneys to the Water Supply Account to pay off tint account. The* chairmen's report wu.gdopted. The report of the acting-county engineer stated that the watet-races vem being weß maintained. He forwarded reports on the Aanburton-Bakaia water .uppity, tiiw.AshW-ton-BangitaU wafer supply, the Btapoaa maw race, and the Lefcrinor creek. The re■ponse had been rery fair to the ]!ette» sent out to landowners to clean the costribntiaßr races on their respective properties. ~ i objections to the proptieed Mdag orer of Lapnhor and Bemauagfcom. weeks by the Council were lodged. The matter in, if ferxrf to the Work. | The Work. Committee wm t instructed, at the wggestion of Cr. Keid, <o obHTtrk** rSert^" 0 " 1 ° f <"** » U,e "»* K J^W^U**"?* 1 taai «*** °* scarlet ferer and two of pneumonia. ThTn. port was adopted. «• reAccounts were passed for wtvmen* ■»».««„« in* to mn 1. id. The I sent stood at £S7Si 4. m ""J"- 1 * al P**have L'unflTS™**** draft up to £IO,OOO *" r "* mw " had .erred fc diAVSJ. brife S U «®* ™ deeided that ihe WotluC^J^ 1 - I* Keaomtions passed at *k» w.-J « "wner. provfnci;! coJ££, 1 *£. 3 Farmers' TJnion •traction of b^3^./* w ' t »«'*. dV «on cf road CoTtTicfl "~-*"». were bi<m x hl before the I p~^^tnibSot^ f J wer?^S^! 0n *" resolution. J jf *° *• ■"«« Highways Act, the Connml b of opinion tltat tIwTTST in, constrncting highways running p«3 with the raawaya, which wUI competition w,th the »il wiys cost .mffl«maf pounds. MbobTJSL able fox expenditure should be W" •ndrng W accew to the back-blockf Sn7 encouxspng closer in«eS EfttS'L/i traffic on th*raflw* 7 ,. n,,, GovernmSt *M the next twenty years in tins nirpect ™ "That the Council i, «i to „, ,f jughwsys drstricW must be under the Main Highwanr Act *roar*te Board, should be .ppc-inte* ioz & a 'gS£ and Isige oounbes My> those wtb a S of ten nulhons and over, should W rt.tnted sep*r>to distriiste, a*l the pistons cf the Act should be ezwufed bv the County Council, of each, of «**'«*&£• instead of by highway, .eouncfls, therebr the cost of sdnnmstrstion.' I -That the proposed repMswrt,iti<» m trtct Councils w Tery najlair, inMnmch as constus with a large «»W a«a •'»„»

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