Clutha County Council.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1036, 1 June 1894, Page 6

Clutha County Council.

The above council met at the Ccunty I Chambers on Friday. There were present \ — Messrs VV. Hay (chairman), J. Johnston, D. Wallace, W. Rhodes, D. Robertson, W. Dallas, J. Gumming, J. R. Mitchell, and T. Knowles. CORRESPONDENCE. The Receiver of.Land Revenue wrote advising the payment to the predit of county fund account of L 153 Os sd, being perpetual lease and deferred payment thirds for the period from October 30 to April 30. — Received. Clinton Town Board again wrote asking the council to state cause of the narrowness of the street opposite the Temperance Hotel, and enqniring whether the railway fence encroached on the street, or whether the present was to be accepted as the correct line. — Mr Wallace thought that the council should get a tracing of the street from the record map of the Survey Office, and moved that the engineer be asked to do so. — Mr Johnston seconded the motion which was carried. Mr John Hewitt wroie directing attention to the bad state of the road between Stony Creek and Rongahere school, and asking that he be given the work of repairing it, as it was near his place. — (Laughter.) — Received. Mr J. H. Jenkinson wrote asking permission to erect a fence across Selsea street, Port Molyneux, to prevent stray cattle damaging recently erected embankments. — Permission granted. Messrs J. and H. Hogg applied for a slaughtering license for yards near Balclutha. — A similar application was recieved from Mr E. R. Black for Owaka. — Both applications were granted. The Public Trustee wrote empowering the chairman of the council to proceed all persons destroying the Wiltshire Bay reserve.— The Chairman suggested that,, with a view to preventing the reserve being destroyed, notices should be put up warning persons against damaging it in any way. The local people had some funds in hand for protecting and-improv-ing the reserve. The chairman was empowered to get notices posted as suggested. THE LATE LICENSING ELECTION. The Chairman said little had been done in regard to this matter further than that the committee had obtained the opinion of Messrs Stout, Mondy, and Sim, and the advice was to the effect that a case should be stated for a judge of Supreme Court. He (the Chairman) thought the matter might be left in the hands of the same committee to write the different local bodies and ascertain whether they would contribute towards the cost of stating a case. —A motion to this effect was passed on the motion of Messrs Dallas and Wallace. ROADS, WORKS, ETC. The engineer's report, which was adopted, enumerated the works for which tenders had been called and the progress made in contracts in hand during the month. He had inspected the Pomahaka bridge, portion of which was canted over, but it was nevertheless safe for ordinary traffic, only that horses might be apt to slip. Mr Draper had commenced the falling of timber on his road, and had agreed to fall the timber and make a track 9ft wide and 93 chains in length for the sum of L6O. On the motion of Mr Mitchell, the engineer was instructed to inspect the Pomahaka bridge when ihe river was at its lowest level, and then take such steps as he may think necessary to put the bridge in good repair. G. Ord'B tender for contract No. 567, Ratanui, was accepted up t<; the amount of L 25, the amount available. The monthly pay-sheet, amounting to LI 6O 4s 9d, was passed for payment. This was all the business before tho council, and the Chairman remarked that the meeting, which only lasted a little over half an hour, was the shortest one he could remember, and it said a good deal for the settlers, 'particularly those in the South Molyneux and Oatlins districts that they had not bothered the council with a lot of correspondence about roads at this season of the year.