SPRINGS COUNTY COUNCIL

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23848, 18 January 1943, Page 3

SPRINGS COUNTY COUNCIL

IMPROVEMENT OF LOADING BANK SOUGHT

A financial statement presented to the? Springs; County Council, at its monthly meeting, indicated that of a total Me levy of £4700, just , under £ 1000 'had been collected. The ’ date for imposition of the 10 per: cenfc penaltjw-was fixed. was stated by 4 the chairmari that the council was" likely to have a small credit atiffig end of the financial year,: ; z- _ .- it was decided to. offer no'objfiEttttn to a proposal from the Highways Coun-: cil that traction-engine'haulage should be used for carting grain from farm to railway, in view of the need to conserve petrol and tyres. After the reading of a letter from the Highways Council abdut second coat seaUng work, Crs; J. Woods and E. J. Stalkelr and- the chairman (Cr. J. S. Simpson) were asked to inject the Christchurch-Akaroa highway at Motukarara and to? make application for a grant if they considered a second coat seating: necessary. The Railways-'Department will be asked to improve a loading bank at Ellesmere railway station to facilitate thedoading .Ofi farm produce. 7 When the Rehabilitation Board’s letter about post-war work was under consideration, members agreed unanimously that improved drainage in the Selwyn river, and £1 and £2 river areas should' be included as the most urgent works in Springs. Tt was pointed: out that better drainage would bring about a substantial increase in production. Better road drainage was also needed, it was stated.