OROUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 3

OROUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

: . ——» —■ —— . , . (by telegraph.—special correspondent.) Feilding, May 1. The monthly meeting of tlie Oroua County Council was held to-day, when there were present Councillors Wheeler (chairman), 'Vincent; Burrell, Cornfoot, Pearce, Rowling, and Raid. It was resolved to write to the Halcombo residents, who complained of the closing of the road to the river, and inform them that the old track to the Rangitikei River was never a legal road; also that, having provided a good road to, and the right to use, the railway bridge over the Rangitikei River, the Council did' not think it advisablo to make another road merely leading to a ford which would continually be liable to change. Riding accounts wero reported,as follow: —Taonui Riding, dr. £322; Otangaki. Riding, dr. £62; Rangawa Riding, cr. £18; Makino Riding, cr. £GO4; Hiwinui Riding, cr. £146; Mangaone Riding, cr. £37; Raumanga Riding, cr. £528; General account.—Amount of general rates levied, £4822; amount collected to March 31, £4760;. outstanding on May I^£6l. Bank balances. —General; account, cr. £2069; No. 21 loan account, cr. £1421; office loan account, cr. £224; George Bridge account, dr. £2918. It was rosolved that the Minister for Railways bo requested to proclaim as a public road a picce of land, sixty links in width, being a portion of the railway reserve on the New l'lymouth-Foxton railway, commencing near the right.bank of the Oroua River opposite the forty-niuo mile mark; and thence running in a south-easterly direction to meet the existiug road near. Aorangi. It was resolved also to have this resolution forwarded to Mr. Lothbrickfl, M.P,