COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 6, 5 July 1882, Page 3

COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING.

Our detailed report of tbe Counh Council meeting is unavoidably heldove until our next issue. The following i: the Engineer's Report -. — Kiwitea Riding.- The metalled roat in (his riding is in very fair repair. U will require constant attention during thi w inter months owing to the heavy timbei tr.tllic from the Kiwitea sawmills. G Currin has not quite finished his contract for t&C formation ot Kimbolton road, bul he ha/ done all that can be done until the fine weather sets in. when about twe days work will complete it. I would recommend that the time for the comple. tion of this work Le extended until the fine weather sets in. I have called tenders for three small sill bridges and thr^e cuhets ou the Kimbolton road, also a foot bridge over the Kiwitea river on tbe continuation of Mackay's line. An estimate of the cost of these works is hereunto attached. Manchester Riding. — The roads in this riding are now in good order, as I Lave during the past month bad metal put on the bad places on the jVJakinoand the Palmerston and Gorge roads. Hehrendt and Manaugh iuform me that they bave completed the formation and culTcts on Wilsons and Richardson's line. Jamison Bros, will finish their contract fur busii felling and clearing on the Wanganui Harbor lioard Block in a few days. Messrs Warne and Beard have not yet made much progress with their coutract for cutting and delivering the- timber for the Manawatu Gorge Bridge, but they have uow men in the bush squarug the piles and the mill is in good order ; ihey should deliver a large quantity in the coming month. The punt at the Manawatu Gorge Ferry is in good working order, the Tate flood having improved idle landing places. AJr Falloon informs me that tlie whole of the gear- and plant belonging to the County was saved from the flood except an old boat which has <bccu waterlogged, and of no use for some time past. I have seen the fencing and the bush- fell ing that is done by Mr Falloon on the Ferry Reserve. Thee is about 40 chains of 7-wire fencing erected and about 78 acres of bush felled. The fence is not quite finished, there are some few wires which are not secured to tbe posts. The bush felling I think is fairly done, but a great number of rata trees are left standing. — I am, etc., Charles Bray.