COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18141, 2 August 1924, Page 11

COUNTY COUNCILS.

SPRINGS. At the monthly meeting of llio Springs Countv Council, held at Springaton oil Jhursdav, the following members were present. Cra. A. Thompson (chairman), J. S. oidmsson, E. H. Howell, E. Y&rr, and C. 11. AVatson. _ , The Sclwyn Plantations Board, on the application of Kr C. "Wolfe, agreed to m'PPly the Council with 1000 trees lor planting on county Turves, at the cost price of produclion, £2 10s. . In accepting the offev the mtuv complimentary references to Mr Wo.fo # repeated good services on behalf of the Council. Mr J. BRiter. (Lincoln) wrote asking, for repairs to the road between Hewton s and Thompson's. It was now difficult to gc» a car in or out. . The Council admitted the difficulty referred to, and the engineer w.is in»tructcd to effect vas received that Mefl'W O. Mc* Clitchie and Co.' had acquired the property and business at Lincoln of Messrs Y.. liirtram and Co. " , Tlio Council decided to pay ita usual c tribution of £25 to tho Canterbury league and appreciative referenco rogarding the League's work in tlie interests of th« j province and tho Dominion were nia.de. i Mr A. E. Inder, clerk of the Wairewn. County Council, wrote staling D> *tart had been mado on tho bridge error tae Hatewell river at Motukarara. •. The clerk of the Wairewa County Council

farther nroio asking if Springs Council was ! agreeable the holding of » conft'cnceof delegates from all contributing bodies to - the Nirth Canterbury Hoapitil Bond todiscuea tJie following:—Hospital !erica, paying tients, hospital charges, any question dealing with hospital affairs. The Council appointed tho chairman and Cr. J- S. Simpson to attend, leanag tic date to Wairewn: to fix. . Mr B. Pearcy, eecretiiry of tho- Drainage Board, Lincoln, wrote asking the Council for it*j decision in ro™ard to work on the Li and i clerk instructed to repW (hat the | Council, owing to lack of funds, could not j do anything to the -rivers at present. , j Mr A. NicholU, the county solicitor, | wrote that he had been successful in collecting rates from a number of defaulters. Cr Yatr mcrtd, wid Cr. jßowcJl eeconuou, that in to tb« clay >*" »~ rv £. th * Council clean the, drain, and that Mr Wood? bo thereafter instructed to take the o-am o.jt oi <he drain.—Carried. On r r Simpson's motion, Mr JfcMeekan s offer to oav t'.vn-tbird-i o! the cost of a boundary fenco' «*; accepted, the Counci. to pay j CJ«." ioird. , , , , , ~ I Cr. \Va:«:oii s*ii he had bepo aiuced b? iir I-'vi*.r«t t.j bring i'-n the "'alter of e.canilig ill') Oraii." asd clear ujj ferae on !ue Acconimodatioii r;>ad. Th« «lcr!c >iid tis; the :ali't-o-T.c:'3 ««e V..--. :<•. , Vf.rr nrfnicslfj iisii •' «n •h.-j ccmef of McDonald's road, should o« HHed in when the suriawuoaa *•» m -be neighbourhood.—Agreed to. t'r. Kcve'.i vrhv Good rick s ror.tl ura.n j Jim. clianed. _ ! Til,' clerk .'•■' plied tfeat It was aM-ause t-. certain prep?;'.y occupier had not clccrctf j rct;;;' t-.vky. The drain wms t leaned up to : trhe-e '.he 70rse *M Nourishing. I On Cr. Simp-wn'* mo!ton it woJ decided to I repair Sbttsd"* track (boundary road).