COUNTY COUNCILS

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20412, 5 December 1931, Page 3

COUNTY COUNCILS

• ' ' —" KAIKOUBA. ' ? Th# monthly meeting of jthe Kaiiocr* County Council was tiifd yesUrday. Present ■were Councillors James Boyd, ■*!*», Boyd, S. C. Hand, C. E.- Biwsows. „ Smith, E. H. Eccles, R. L, Wither*, PI -Cb>- - ran, and P. S. Hnmm. ; ■* The -Commissioner for Labour,. in reply *• } , a letter from- the Council *«purdi« *wks ' 3 be undertaken, stated thftt before going any further with the* matter Sna would hj» «Ud to iaUfir if the OooncH >ll prepared to set- > up a. camp for the purpose, of carrying «t - the workq mentioned. The letter was j*C * The secretary* of th* ' ! X Anstiss) wroty thtaaklmt - inrtrovpmente carried otit, on'Vf%fi cMqnn , rlaum, and suggesting • that «" water- 1 would he appreciated.. -'i" , 1 The UnderrSeK!retard for • Internal ASaira advised, that Lyell creek had - a unctMrr wider the - Animal* Ejmismv . and tyune Aet, 1921-22. - » V : Jhe chairman. ■ reported .that manuka) -SW-- ~ been cut on W»iBUJUH»r» xitlMglf l iK v was decided- to • adv)ErtUe tlwit 'fnmamnw'. would follow tit the ifnetiee Is camp?**!*'-.* t The balance-sheet for 1931 Wf*' before th* Council *nd adopted-s, ' ; v *'--'S' Cr. Humm said' thet\»ila*je« «d' w»j**Fhi Council atijl electric light VSre higber than, in previovte years—«]>«» had been .*i _ - cent, cut, Cr. WJtKera* ,: seiA* the 'Aet'-mPt vided for higher "wages, - therefore there; feM been no cnt. - The' chairman: Dae ni*»i_;j worked seven days Cr, Bnptitt-.iaofaik''.-that enquiries .be intde regarding • Sitae! engine. Cr. V. Boyd said he h*d fesipiKai - - from the engineer regarding a' reduction, and Mr "Munro had said * twßjH^way 1 to tb 4is* miss him. Cr. not for-the electric light the Jus in gradtt. • s ;Mrs Washington was appointed custodian of the Garden of, Memories Tst £5 per- anmau ;- • Cr. D. Boyd said hj« had had embplaist * regarding sheep straying over the-t«metery plots. It was;. decided to take steps to pre- " vent a recurrence of'the trouble, > -* Authority was given to the, cte*k to pay, workers before Christmas. . Cr, Withers, banded in a petition from ratepayers agreeing to"'raise £IOO to pay i»- ' terest and sinking fund towards. tli»- tar- ' sealing of the town road. It meant fbat -- . the Council would have'to find"' only £IOO. - By the expenditure of £6OO it would assist in keeping men . employed. The chairman said he was agreeable course, but . there would be a lot of details to go into.. The people were prepared'to help themselves and they should be assisted. . Cr. Withers moved that the Council agree to expend 2100. . plus subsidy from the Highways Board, proTided £loo'was found by the ratepayers ep&cerned. This was seconded by Cr. I>. Bovd' and carried. *' ; " *