COOK COUNTY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12914, 16 July 1936, Page 3

COOK COUNTY.

MONTHLY MEETING The monthly meeting of the Cook County Council was held yesterday; present Mr. Clias; Matthews (elixt-V----manj, and Messrs. W.G. Sherratt, C. N. Thomas, M. Holden, J. E. Beuson, 0. Tietjen, M. T. R. Hall, A. H. Baker. F. A. Shank®, F. S. Bowen, J. Tombleson and S. T. Gray. An. application by Air. W. Oai-heft, who is e ecti.ng a. store at Bartlett s, to .in.st.al, a petrol pump on the premises was granted, the applient'on being subject to the usual conditions’. The Hon. W. Leo Martin, Minister of 'Lands, wrote replying to a, letter f oni the council in connection with arrears of rates owing by soldier settlers. The Minister stated that inquiries had been made, and ,it bad been ascertained that in nearly every ease tho set,tiers shown on the 1-sfc supplied by the council are also heavily in a-"-roars with rent- and Interest charges to the Crown. In some oi the case’s quoted the Department holds orders on .settlers’ cream cheques for varying percentages, hut. the 'amounts received under the orders have in the. past not been nearly j sufficient' to meet curornt charges, j The department therefore had not j been rcccvvuig an unfair propori'nn of j the revenue from the prope'ties. It-| was expected that the financial pos- J twin of the 'settlers would lie much . improved during the. coming .sea- • ri. ] and it; was -hoped that they would then lie in ’a, position to meet the'r , rates.—The letter was received. The. -secretary of the East Coast j Rabbit Board w’oto in regard to Up* j ragwort nufsancc. stating that- a do- I seriptl-ori of ragwort- conditions was ] obtained from the board's ’.nop-wtor'* : and Ibe board decided that conics lie ! sent 1.0 the Department of Agrrul- j tore. The reports wore not, being pub - | lislied. a.s they do not refer to land , within the Gisborne area, hut to great ; on the extreme northern and south; rjt ; parts of tin- hoard’s area. The ins pee- , to'® are to furnish reports quart rly j in future on this nuisance;, and A ; was hoped that the in‘Vinnat : on oh- -j taiued will assist the Department of j Agriculture.—lt- was decided to reply i stating that the council thanked the i hoard for its, action and appreciated ] the work' it was do’ng. j Air. R. D. Rice wrote asking if + ue ! council would grant- him a- lease ow" | portion or all of the waterfall, hill re- j serve at Waercnga-o-kuri that- l-hc • council d’d not- intend to plant in ; trees, as the reserve had permanent i water. —The mat ter was referred to i the tree-plant/ng committee. j Air. W. G. Alorn'cnn of Siov right, j road, wrote protesting against the storm water from Air. She'raft’s Hill, : which was conveyed from the north j side of Adams road hv a- twelve inch pipe line discharging 'nto a paddock ] not far from Iris boundary and so into j his '.sections running two of these as ! building '.sites. Tie suggested that the j pipe hue should he remover! and the • channel on the ninth side of Adams’ j road deepened.— It- was decided to re- ! pl.v that the council had no jurisdiction in the matter as the property was in the borough. - i Mann Torek,'a, of Waituhi, made an application for the -serv’eos of rel of ; workers f<*~ a drain which would b rip- - fit. other ratepayers beside himself.— • The matter was referred to the mem- ; her for the riding and the eng neer. .

Af-. Randal] IV. AV.it+ers wrote complaining that a trench had been cutby Mr. 13. Stewart through, an embankment which runs between h’s mother’s “Woodlands” property ni Wuiohiki and the property farmed h.v Air. St own 1. He contended that the trench would doubtless grow with the first flood of water on his property with the result that a large port‘on o" his mother’s fiats would be under write* wt.li no .sufficient, outlet. The matter was referred to the drama go commit tre.

The Min ster of Internal Affairs, the Hon. AV. E. Parry not'ficd that Wednesday, Angii'-t 5 had been fixed as the date for Arbrr Day and appealed for the co-operation of the council in the matter.—-It was deeid.d to reply that the eounc'l intended to inspect Waterfall Hill at Waeronga. oknrV and would combine tlie celebration of Arbor Day with that, visit. AT. ’. A. AT. Boyd wrote drawing attention. to (he fact- that, the watertable fronting liis Lasehnld property on King's road, AI n kauri, was unable to carry the water. The Hood of surplus water ran on to li -s p op wry instead oi’ into' tho big let-out further alou<.l the road, and he asked :if I'm council could g-'ve relief. The mat,:or wits ip>ferred to the memher fo the riding and the engineer. T-he- Assist a lit- Under Secret ary of Public Works wrote suggesting that the Comic*’] should take the necessary -stops to have the Hnnga oa-Wa’karo mofimi road classified.—lt was d Tided on the motion of Or. Hall to classify -It as a third class road. The secretary of the Local Government Loans Board wrote stating Ibah the comic’-Iks appl 'cation for s-aurt'e-n to raise £14,800 for a loads and hr I ge-s. The chairman, said the lean was for fifteen years, making the rale of interest- 5 1-5 per cent. The. council's

other loann wore for 30’ years and some had boon extended. He thought that when he and the cowuty cits'do visited Wellington they should interview the Local Bodies Loans Board and make representations to have the term extended. The chairman’s motion on these lines was carried. Mr. Francis Stafford wrote asking the council to intervene in tile matter of. the allocation of rates. in the Aroha riding. Out of a. total expenditure of £IB3O the liangaroa. Tahora roac! had been allocated £IOSO bes’do a. ie-vote of £75. “I would draw attention to the fact,” continued M'. Stafford, -“that £I2OOO spent on this road last year, and £3O had been spent on our road in two years. My yearly rate to the council is £338 16s 9d and £294 0s 9d was for the Aroha riding. The rates paid by ratepayers whose only access to their propertied is off thL road,” he stated, “is £lOl 9,s yearly, so that in two years we have, .paid the council £922 ISs, and wc have received the small sum of £3.0 : n expenditu e on thevdad .in. tho two;'. years under review front the council funds. I know of no stronger case for the aboKt'on of the! riding system than this one. I am quite .sure that the. council ad a whole will deal fairly by our road. If the council would allocate £1.50 from our £4Ol 9s, this year’s rates,

I believj a substantial amount could be got 1 Din 1 ! io Public Works Department, as l believe we have the r sv m pat .by. ’' —M r. 1 biker eon t ended that the council bad dime as much wor.lc a> it could do ai present, and Mr. Stafford bad very good ace' s. There were other charges to come out of the ! 'lies. Mr, Hall quoted von !ur cases tn his riding, lie thought AH’. Stafford had no complaint. lie had iiad -£oo spent that: year and also £'b > on maintenance, \VA i.MATA-AIIAKI HI ROAD Mr. O. <i. Thornton wrote stoibig that. Mr. ,T. C. F'-cld has again writt n to the Minster regarding the Wainviia-Aralrili-i road and ihis time requested the completion of the road as through .stock route to dolaga Ray. lie would like, to know the ernne'l’s attitude to such -a. pro pond.— The county clerk said that the Israel had already made application for the road to lie declared a main highway. anVl the Dawn, poti on was already a main li'ghway. It was deo’ded on the motion of ( Tomhlcson to reply .duit'tig tlint tlt‘■ road is open now for sto'-k traffic. and coMsidcrahlc use has already brryi made of it. TRAFFIC CONTROL The report of the joint traffic inRpce'or Air. W. 11. Scntt. included the following; items:— “T have made three tvipa ovr Xu. 1 d’lstr'ct. I am pn.v'ng very careful a lent ion to the matter of overloading and spectVnjr on this highway. Two trips were made to Tc- Ka-ra-kn. : n Xu. 2 seel ion for the purpose nr i I ng

drivers and ebeok’ng up ou heavy irsif lie licenses, One I.’ in was made in Te Pip a and a fu r It ip In Tc Araroa for the purpose of cheek ng up drivers’ lie ruses and ini Hie general lv On SaUr'dav .Time 20, a sneces-'id raid was carried -oul in va.rru.- par Is of the district for unlicensed drvers. and every possible assistance iw given by the Pope tv Department and ike borough inspector.”—The i eport was 'adopted.