COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20828, 11 April 1933, Page 17

COUNTY COUNCILS.

WAIMATE. The monthly meeting of the Wai- . lute County Council was presided wet by Mr J. Bitchener, M.P. In his jtttement he said the balance-sheet for the year had been completed and mid be placed before the meeting. Th« credit balance of the county fund Kcount at the bank at March 31 was £(T33 Is fid. The rates collected for 1M amounted to £13,000, or 72 pir cent of the total levied. In the previous year the percentage was 82. b credit balance was £4753 Is 6d, Manured with £5703 19s Id on March 11, 1932. The Public Works Department advUtd that when legal arrangements tod been completed the control of one ,«proich of the Waitangi bridge (Upper Waitaki) would be vested in to Wsimate County Council, and the (tier approach in the Waitaki County in whose district it was situated, tin Department assuming responsibility of maintenance and upkeep of the f Wdfe, conditional upon the Waimate Council making an annual payment of ; *<H the offer of which had been actcpted. !■ fye Main Highways Board district JjPfeientative reported that it had Wn agreed, regarding the maintenJMJ cost of Kurow-Haka road and gwjes, that it was reasonable for the Weinute county to pay 15 per cent., waitaki 10 per cent., and the board « p«r cent It was decided to submit «* Percentages to the Waitaki CounWwr approval. JT» county solicitor gave a legal •Pion on the provision in the Motor '•Mclea Regulations for cases where J™"™ were on a bridge or on the WWach thereto, stating that the reWjanorjf. were not satisfactory, and it *™m necessary to frame a by-law traffic on any bridge, and ftS? !? n * the Passage of vehicular «we thereon while stock were on the to ml 8 ! 01 " a PP r oaches. It was decided ft. d r to fra ming a by-law covering ""atta-Kurow bridges.

ASHLEY. I ft* Ashley County Council met at *<% ft. Present: Councillors Hy. T. jwercll (chairman), Ensor, Macleod, McCracken, Philpott, and JJj* djalrman reported on the action L„ ? ro 3'ess League regarding the Si 6 " 1 °* rates by the Crown as toffci? 66, ln cases where the Crown the the cu ""ent produce and gave " ae*r iS rtgagor an allowance as man(mi*. * to pay 'rates seemed r™ justifiable, he said. The Pro■T? "ague's action was supported. North Canterbury Hospital «SS notified that a further loan of form Was for the new home loafer 888 - The council decided to w ".'Protest against the raising of S*w m lonns b y the hos P ital of «!v " yas also decided to approve *XnZ!«4? Mnci P le of making hospital daw St* a cha »"ge on the ConsoliWewT? 6t obstruction to road vision lZJ*Ported at the Grey and at WOvef a rJ?u notices to trim were a P" OVwCj! e re S u lations covering the *•>« W1 gof lorri es contained in **Si5 v ? were considered, and it *e<£r de A to allow some latitude in kmt ot the last lQ ad of a consignhavT.Acertiflcate of such load would *iv* u given b ? the farmer to the U .ski , as d «cided, and a few sacks tie SUd 1 t0 finsh the lot would