OROUA COUNTY

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3793, 10 August 1932, Page 6

OROUA COUNTY

The Monthly Meeting

THE COT? I? ES PO X DENCE The monthly meeting of the Oroua County Council was liold today with C'r. A. Campbell in the chair. Public Works Department, forward iug ,£O3O -Is Td being rotund of maintenance cl Main Highways. Main II glnvays Board forwarding annual mamfena-nce estimates for work on main highway s . Commissioner of Transport, pointing out tile difficulty of exempting farmers’ lorries from payment oi heavy traffic fees. Messrs Hagg'tt and Elliott, ..asking Counc’l tc* settle question of compensation for loan taken for approaches to Spur Road hriwge. Conimis ioncr of Crown Hands, asking if Council would undertake certain river protection works at Ahnadale with labour under No. 5 s -home

Cheltenham Dairy Co., staf.'ng that cream stand at top of Tokqr.mgi hill would be shifted as requested. Ma.nawntu-Oi'oiua Electric Power Board setting out conditions under which it was agreed to allocate the eost of removal of poles. Kairanga. County Council, sugge ting an increase of regst ration fee ier eporting dogs.

Unemployment Board, asking for particulars of all agreements made under which Scheme No. 5 workers ale employed over the fence.

Unemployment Board, forwarding particulars of scheme lor the groni,ng of vegetables by Belief workers.

Mr \V. 0. Noffke, Haloombe, oujnplaining of action of Ranger. Various ratepayers, a-k'ng for work to be done under No. 5 Sclieme.

Borough of Takapuna asking Council to support protest against flic- action of Government ift not availing itself of the provisions of he N.SAY. Interest Reduction Act, 1931.

Department of Health acknowledging receipt of letter regard'ng services rendered tn this district by the Senior Inspector of Health. ENGINEER'S REPORT Eastern Riding The s mall crushing plant has been, working practically full time at Ashhurst and to following are ’the quantities of gravel put out on the various roads: Bunnythorpe-Ashhurst 189 yard,,, F.eildi us,- Ashhurst 023, Pdhattgina road (spread) 094, Poliangiiia road (dumped) 390, Kelvin Grove road 128: Total 1930 cubic yards. The time worked was 21 days and this give ail uveracie daily output of over 01 cubic yard-;, which must be couidered very .satisfactory. Two old wuoden culverts on the Feilding read and one on. -Midland road have loon replaced with ooij« Crete pipes. Upper Taonui and

portion of Spur road 'have Le-cn graded and rolled. Siberia Road. Owing to blockage of several culverts during the heavy rains in the earlier part- of the mouth a good deal of drainage was done to tin's road. Tlii s trouble ran. only be overcome by increasing the size of the culverts. No. -5 Scheme. —Work under this scheme has been principally in the nature of cutting back sharp bends on roads a.ud improving drainage oat various propoirtes. several bemls on tile Keildi rig-A slihur-1 a-nd .Mid],s,ml road s have been completed and the men art' now improving portion of Watershed road.

Western Riding Little 1 reside general maintenance work has been done in this riding. At the junction of Mekino and Lethbridge roads a long culver, has been replaced with concrete pipes. Two old wooden culverts on Lethbridge road and on Eeilding- Halcom.be road have also been replaced with pipes. On the Eeilding-Kakariki road from Knight’s hill to Kakariki the water tables; have been cut back with grader and the road generally put tn good order. The road referred to in letter to last meeting Has be«n attended to, all gorge ha., been, cut and tlie watertublefe etc., cleaned out. NO. -5 SCHEME Work under this scheme has proceeded as usual. At Hakonbc the work has beefi practically all an pn“ vato property and consisted of draining and gorsc cleaving. Tlio work on Makino road ha.s beep Continued and on Forking’s road from the reservoir towards the Oroua river improvements are also being carried out. Tlie Traffic Inspector reports that either white lives or donios are (required at the intersection .at 'Cheltenham as the practice of cutting the corner is becoming too general.