COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19728, 19 September 1929, Page 7

COUNTY COUNCILS.

-—. j kowai. At the monthly mating of the Kcw*i County Council, there were preeent: Meaars j D VVyllie (chairman), H. May, R. Peach, W A. Kalcher, W. H. Hale, J- H Jamea, tad M. B. Formt*r. The finance "port showed a cwdit balance * ThT chSmM reported that the sub-snr-.'wa oi arfc l:*t at had accepted that of K the aurveyora report the „hl.™an and the clerk were appointed to wU b the Highly* Board ■ en P new .mnfer wan w ' bottom of Open the widening of bridge, on the wton Saltwater creek secondary h**™* It ... decided that Mehrtens roadside -ri-« ss rti., >u. of the Diatriei Engineer New Zealand RaiT wavs the very dangerous position cf the firet ' railway crowing north of £^ le 5 <£ the main highway, due to ■»»• •»* aJlg! ' _i ik« e*ttl# ttop# ind hiMiiiii rt wsa reports th*t thi Sontb African wr»r Memorial in the main rtreet. Araber i._ w%t % danger to traffic Cre. Jaznee, Hale, and the clerk were appointed to confer wi*b the residents of Amberley regardin? the removal of the memorial to some that this Council erect hutment. for the Pnb'ic Work. Department ' ->o the Ram PaJMnck road T» ml decided that the Council collect < he river rate on behalf o? the Ashley Hirer Trnst, levied over the Kowai division of the Hirer Tru«* » re " . , _ Mr Lanrhein, engineer m charge of the Huhiic Worto Department, <a«jrtchuieh, mulg tbiiaf that <k» Main Highways

Board had decided that the paving from Ashley Rivfer to Leithfield could not be gone on with this year on account of lack of finance It was decided to reply expressing the Council's disappointment a-t the Board a C 'i'he Commiseione r of Crown Lands forwarded a copy of Order-in-Council toting reserve -2543 and part of reserve 2544 'n the name of the Council in trust as gravel pits. CHEVIOT. At the monthly meeting of the Cheviot County Council there were present: Crs. J. H. L. Hlatt (chairman), D. McLaren, A. MeGiffert, T. Stevenson, J. 8. Douglas, G. L. Rutherford, and W. L. Foster. jjr A B. Callander wrote regarding expense. incurred on a visit to Cheviot in connexion With hi. appointment as county clerk and engineer. It was resolved favourably to consider the matter on his arrival. Shaw Bros., contractors, Oamaru, wrote enauirine it the Council had a secondhand grader fir sale. The clerk was directed to n P \1 7 r 'S I R 6 wrote in reference to I Mr 8. B. v.''" It was resolTed to con . . 0., S=B?£ SS" ES C °MessM* J K. Macfarlane and F. A. Tate wrote regarding road and fencing matters from the spe cial rating area nf t h. Wairara County watted on the Coun- •> with the alteration of cil in ctrane^" 0 reao lred to fonrard a th " Governor-General. V/!?£p of motion was given to declare * ," C 1 ,° om Mrs Helton's corner up Ward flong Froghall road to Mina rail™, road along * t & o Nonotii a county road. The r*erk *»• directed to write to the j „ f-f.® works Department, askmg for & • mnt for the work being done on the Leader road by the Council.