WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22795, 22 August 1939, Page 10

WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL

COST OF ROPEWAY FOR FRANZ JOSEF

The monthly meeting of the Westland County Council was;.held, with the chairman (Mr J. A. Murdoch) presiding. The Minister in charge of the Tourist Department, in replying to the council, stated that the cost of a ropeway at the Franz Josef Gldcier .was high, and funds were riot available. The road to Chancellor ridge was being looked, into. " ' ' . The Ministerfor Public Works noticed a grant of £2OO, £ for £, for..the Kokapotahi river works, and a grant of £266, £2 for £l, for the Kokatahi river works. ’ 1 . . The Inspector of Police-wrote promising co-operation in the wandering stock nuisance on the southern roads, and suggested a public pound at Wataroa. The Westland Hospital. Board notified the council of the local body levies as follows:—Westland County, £4788 14s 9d; Hokitika borough, £2299 17s 4d; Ross borough, £l4s' 10s 6d; Kumara borough, £ll6 5s 4d. A letter was received Itotu ttve 'Ross Borough Council suggesting a meeting of local bodies at Hokitika to discuss the increasing hospital levy, now more than double in tvip years.■ The, suggestion was agreed to, the chairman and Crs. Dale and Jamieson being appointed to represent the council. The council decided to concur in :the plan of the proposed commemorative cairn at the divide on the Haa§t. Pass road, as suggested by the VincenJ County Council,’in appreciation of the Hon. R. Semple’s ; interest and, attention as Minister for PublicWorics to the work of linking Otago and Westland by a first-class road. • -