COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19770, 7 November 1929, Page 7

COUNTY COUNCILS.

e) MOUNT HERBERT. The moathty meeting; of the Mount Herbert County Coanei! wa* bald la the Council Chambers, Paraa. Present: Cre. E. W. Gray (chairman). AJ*«. »- H. Gardiner, Ret. Osbbla, Chaa. Pom, H. H. Gardiner, and W. J. Gay. As apology m received from Mr J. A. OeU.trOa tk* motion of tk* chairman, the elerk ems instra«t*d to forward a letter of eondolsatc* to Sir &. Beaton Rhode* sxpressina; the ■Mien' sympathy wltk him ia kit bereare•eat. Cr Gay mo-red tk* notion standiac ia kta mm: "Tkat the Cooncl] proceed to rail* a loaa of £2095 for the purpose of widening aad metalline the Ptirau to Port l*r» read, and that an application be mad* to the L*eal Bodies Loans Board for leare to rata* tk* money.'" Tk* motion was carried. H> I*. W. Freemen forwarded a plan of the MbdiTition of Mr H. S. Hatl"« lend at Governor's Bay for the Conncll's approval. The robdWieion was approved, end the chairman waj empowered to place the county teal thereon. Tb* tender of Mr W. A. Gray for the parch*** of a kora* »n accepted. Tk* e!«rk reported that the Encineer-in-Chief. Pnblic Work* Department, bed notified him that the Department would etart work at tha Kiwi to widen the ro»d to 2* f»et, and woold place a protecting wall on the outaid* a* far ae w»e neeetfarr. and possibly grre attention to the overhaneine; rork which is thoajht to b« danferotn. The work wo-jld be carried ont ander the nnemployed scheme. The flnaneiel statement showed a debit balance at lb* b»nk of 12210 IPs «d.