COUNTY COUNCILS

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18263, 23 December 1924, Page 13

COUNTY COUNCILS

♦ WAIMAIRI. ! The Waimairi County Council met last night. Present: Cr. J. Seymour (Fendalton), chairman, and Cra. R. W. Hawke -(Papanui), W. J. "Walter (Marshland), Cr. E. Curry (Riccarton), G.- Shirley (Harewood), W. P. Sponoer (Styx), C. E. Cross (Wairarapa), H. Patterson (Avon), T. O. Newnham (.Middle ton) and W. A. Nicholle (Belfast). The residents of Reeves' road petitioned for the erection of street lights along the road. Tie petition stated that within the last few weeks, some "very unpleasant" things had' taken place on that road. Theso, the petitioners thought, were duo to there Soing no lighting on the roads. Cr. Spencer said that this was the only road in the Styx riding that was not lighted. Tho electrician stated that ,tho road was about a mile and a half long. Tho chairman euid that the Council had already 1 decided to carry out tho work in connexion with the iscot lighting scheme. Tho Council authorised tho engineer to proceed with the work immediately. Tho Christchurch Ih-ainago Board wrote that it was talcing spoil out of Homer's drain and it asked the Council if it would undertake the removal and disposal of 3500 yards of spoil from the first 38 chains.j*. sub-committee was appointed to go into the matter. The Waimakarm • River Trust wrote asking tho Council for permission to erect a culvert along the road at a stop bank at Chaney's. Permission waa grcfited. The Christohurch City Council notified that the city reserve on New Bnshton road would bo clewed as soon as poMiblo of nosioua weeds in accordance with tho Torment of the Waimairi Council. It waa stated in the Heavy Traffic By-laws Conference report that Waimairi Couny had been allocated the sum of £240 of the fe it to accept tho allocation hut to urge that, vin futuro tberc should be some system of allocation It was decided that a eub-committee shonld make an inspection of the drain in Waimairi r °A*' communication ww received from tho H«dth Department asking tie Council to to destroy rate as a precauti< jt Tequest all householders by. advertisement to do all they could to deClerk reported that renumubering the etwts m the settled ♦JTf eounlv aa authorised some time IZ °Ho Ld the sum of £7OO at 5i per cent, for the Marshland Retries! Tho forctnan reported that the bridge Idris road was finished. •Hie electrician reported that the 300 k», . transformer for tho Idris road sub-station nrrived and when it had been tested > would be put into tho new sub-station | on Idris M supply P<*t of Fendalton I and Bryndwr districts.

From the honoured rank of an engi-neer-lieutenant in the Navy and the equal honour of having served in that rank directly, under Admiral Lord jSsher.' to prisoner in the dock awaiting sentence! Such has been the fall of Janies Howard Kilminster, a married man of Purangi. Taranaki, whose failure to withstand the temptation to forge guarantees to several promissory notes put the first black marks on an honourable career in the Navy, the mercantile marine, and in engineering appointments on shore. A sentence of eighteen months' reformative detention was imposed on Kilminster by Mr Justice MacGregor in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth last week, he having pleaded guilty when charged in the lower Court with "having forged the name of O'Reilly Bros., of Tarata, to several promissory notes securing the balance of the purchase price of a motor-car acquired from Messrs J. H. Cock and Company through Messrs Newton King, Limited, and to another note guaranteeing a monthly account for benzines, oil, etc., w'.th the latter firm.