COUNTY COUNCILS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 15 September 1937, Page 7

COUNTY COUNCILS

WAIREWA The ordinary monthly meeting of the Wairewa County Council was held on Monday at Little River. There were present: Councillors F. Coop (chairman), N. Wright, J. V. Chapman. W. F. Parkinson. E. J. Keenan, and T. Feather. Motions of sympathy with the relatives of Mr Phil McManus, an old employee of the council, and with the relatives of Mr Ussher, of Little River, were passed. It was decided that tenants of council reserves be notified to grub the gorse. Because of the bad condition of the Port Levy road it was agreed that repair work should be begun there in about three weeks. Mr Renner reported that the estimated cost of the footbridge to the Maori pa, a span of 85 feet, was £SB. There was provision on the estimates for the \ ork. It was decided to hold it over in the meantime. The chairman’s honorarium was fixed for the year at £55, in view of extraordinary expenditure incurred through two trips to Wellington. The Postmaster-General wrote stating that the plan to build a new post office at Little River with residential quarters was being gone on with. The chairman said that he, Cr. Chapman, and Dr. Burnett had met the Native Land Advisory Board during their visit to Little River. The board had agreed to assist the Little River water supply scheme. His attention had been called to a suggestion by Mr F. Gread that the water supply should be drawn from Walkers creek. He thought that a survey should be made of this source of supply '-when the

source at the back of the doctor’s residence was surveyed. Or. Keenan said it seemed very bad that' people in the township should be forced to take this supply when they had an adeqilate supply at present. The chairman said that the Health Department would examine present supplies. Cr. Chapman said that there would be an advantage in having a general supply with plenty of pressure for £3 a year. It was decided that tho Health Department be asked to examine the Walkers creek supply, to have it analysed, and that the chairman interview the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. T. F. Telford. A suggestion was made that the council should lake some action to have the Main road through Little River tar sealed. It was decided to ask the Progress League to assist, and to help also in arranging to have the six miles from Motukarara to Kaituna sealed. Cr. Keenan said that if the ratepayers had to find £7OOO out of rates in five years it would be a heavy burden. The chairman said that he did not think the council would have to find a large sum. It was committed to the six miles of tar sealing, and this would cost £SOO a year. He thought the road would become a State highway, and the council would be relieved of the burden. It was decided that the engineer discuss the position with the Highways Board and the Canterbury Progress League, and ask that the work of scaling the two miles through Little River be expedited as soon as possible. EYRE Cr. H. E. Evans was in the chair at the monthly meeting of the Eyre County Council on Monday. The

chairman (Mr H. A. Bennett) was ill i>nd unable to attend. A vote of sympathy with him was carried, and the meeting expressed the hope that be would have a speedy recovery. Those present were Crs. H. E. Evans, R. O. Dixon, A. J. Rich, J. E. Horrell, and J. Cowens. Advice was received from the Employment Bureau that men would be available under the Government's full-time subsidised scheme. It was decided to accept the department's offer. . Grants of £5 each were voted to the Canterbury Progress League and the St. John Ambulance Brigade. The meeting considered a report on the overgrown state of many gorse and broom frontages, and decided to take action against the owners concerned. It was decided clean the drain in Jackson's road, fronting J. W. Butt's property. An application for a slaughterhouse licence from the North Canterbury Freezing Company was granted. The clerk reported that the rate demands for 1937-38 were completed and would be in tne post in the next few days. Accounts totalling £105113s 6d were passed for payment. It was reported that the contractors, Messrs Ryan Bros., had begun work on the Clarkville-Ohapuku deviation, which when completed would shorten by almost a mile the main highway to Oxford and eliminate several dangerous corners.