COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18347, 2 April 1925, Page 13

COUNTY COUNCILS.

—» — LEVELS. The monthly meeting of the Ixrela Caoaty Council was held yeatirday. I'rrMßt —Cr*. T. B. Garrick (chairman), B. G. Cl«laad, % U. Grant, G. 1). Selbie. C. £• Km, T. M. Brosnahan. The chairman referred to the iuncM of the Prime Minister, and moved a xwohß&u* of sympathy, which wn» earned. The chairman said that arnco la*t >■**•* ing there had been a conference of Icca* bodies with regard to the motor tiona. Tho conference bed paned cally the whole Jot without alteration. Ih» had been nothing whatever in_ the tions Teferrinsf to traction engine*- Tb«f» hid also been a conference of i.cal hpov delogutes to discus* the Batter el Soßth Canterbury's r.»rticpation in tbe DyBWU Exhibition, and a* a reauit of it the County Council was being asked to coatribal* A'l7s towards tha ccet. The maf.er <ouki 'o> discussed later, when * letter <a tkc autject from lite Ximarti Boroujh Couefll *»» iead, but persona.'ly he w»s of opiaioa tktt the County Council should tejr its afc*r»Thc fin:mcijl statement showed thftt had been a debit balance at lait nwtUW ot £I6OB 8a Td, and expenditure dunny th» jnonth amounted to 6» making » total of. Xiaii Ua Od. Receipts aawnatKi to £1241 17s sd, leaving a debit b«Ja»«<* of £GOO 17s 4d. Accounts for psytaent totalled i9(X 2s 3d, inakinp the total debit £lsOl 13i lid. Against this, th» Cos««i l«ad to iti credit latta oaltfmdiin WR accounts owing by Waiinst£ Conuty accounts by ilaciteatie Connt7 JK, sundries £IUO, total 41120. This whsbW leave a crtdit balance of £I7S. The Ilfiident Engineer of the P«Mic Works Department, Chr.stcirjrrh, mote m&vising that th# Department had apprwul of £75 beintf granted towards the reitor-i----tion of Hcckwood blidlfe. It was decided that tenders «hoai4 called for tho work at the text meHiag A letter was received from the jnwti Borough Council stating that, at a mt«Un» of local bodies, it had been •unar.inHWiT decided that, in the opinion o: '.hate present, South Canterbury ahouid b* repreawiri in the Canterbury Provincial Court at th» Dunedin Exhibition. The meeiit? had approved of ths scheme for a Pn—■#{»> Court, costing approximately £SOCO. of whici South Canterbury's eoclrib'-jiien woa!d b« £I2OO. The allocation for the Le?>ts Cceatr Council would be £175. Alter ■some discussion, it wai oa the casting-vote of the chairman, ttat lie Council should pajr the *175 a»ked for. Tho W«i»awa County Council write: siting for the" L»vels County CauaoTa snpp-jrt o[ the following resolution: "That tii» Council circularise all County Cancel!* adjacent to the railways and as& their cooperation in ndTiaing Tatepay*** and to forward their gooes, wherever pouiU*. b-r rail; by 8o doin? tHey wili suprvoTi Us* railways (which belong to the people) Mul also help to reduce tie cost of upkeep ©a those county roads -which run parallel wiia the railways." Cr. Kerr: "We'll certainly support t*a£. Mr Chairman' The chairman: I think so. We na«l try to save our roads as mack *» possible.