POHANGINA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1176, 11 July 1911, Page 8

POHANGINA COUNTY COUNCIL.

The monthly meeting of the Pohangina County Council was held on Saturday, when" there were present—Councillors Brown (chairman), Smith, Eglinton, Wagstaff, Port, and Burue. A special rate to raise ,£B7 (this being tho council's proportion towards constructing Ijndon's l'ord Bridge) was struck over tho different ridings. 31 r. Shadbolt,waited oil the council with a claim for .£lO, value of a cow alleged to have been poisoned through eating tutu on the county road. The engineer was instructed to make inquiries. The chairman was appointed delegate to the annual conference of county councils, and it was decided to send a remit urging that the Act be altered in the direction of allowing county councillors .honorariums instead of travelling expenses, as at present. It was resolved that all rents received from the Cemetery Reserve at Pohangina be placed in the Post Office Savings Bank. The rohaugina Domain Board was granted permission to erect a fence on the roadside at Cowen's Hill, the Pohangina riding to contribute half the cost. The engineer was instructed to improve the dangerous points on Cowen's Hill, metal the- Beehive Hill, and also to improve the dangerous points on Stevens' The engineer's report, dealing principally with tho work carried out'during the month, was read and adopted.