REEFTON NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1926, Page 3

REEFTON NOTES.

(Our Own Correspondent.) COUNTY COUNCIL. IIEEFTON, F.'b. 24. The Tiiangahiiii County CouuiCl met to-dav. Present: Crs .1. H. Auld Be!!. 2d. Vi.-ar, Bln. knd.ler. Byrne, Carroll, Watson and (>'Keg.-in. It was decided on the motion of (’rs O Regan and Carroll to grant £•> to the A. and I’. Association wlu n funds wore available. Cr. Watson dissenting. From i:. w. Reeves, T. Phillips, liar.nan and Sodden notifying changes in ownership of propcrt.es and asking tot amendment to rolls. —Transfers granted and rolls amended accordingly. From T. Phillips asking that roll t'oi Reofton Riding respecting estate of Late Mrs McMahon be amended. —Roll tn be amended. 'The Health Department notified a ease of infectious disease. A letter from the Minister of Justice to Mr Hudson M.P., re new Reefton Police Station was read. The Golden Coast Co-opera'tive Dairy Co.. Ltd., applied for license to erect private telephone line at Station (’reek, Maruia; and Isaac Patterson on behalf of Clele Coal Mine Syndicate made .a similar application for telephone along water race to Coal Mine at .\lerrij gs. — Re.-olved that the County Clerk sign the applications. The liquidator. Boatman’s Consolidated Gohl Mines Ltd., in liquidation, requested that the rent on special claims be treated r.s irrecoverable.— Granted on tne nioti'Mi of Crs Bell and 0 ’Rogan. John A. Morris made applienUon iegardiag special claims 1976 and 29(6» for reduction in rent to 2/6 po’ 1 acre, and the Millerton Alines Ltd., and the South Blackwater Gold Alines, Ltd., i rna<le application for reduction in ren 4 to 2/6 per acre for a period of one yen: frein Ist January 1926.— Requests granted on the motion of Crs MeVic:v and o’Regan. Fiorn Secretary of Conference heh | at Grcymouth on 16th ultimo, re apportionment of motor lorry Loenses, etc. — [ Resolved on the motion of Crs McViear ami O Regan ‘‘That our representatives meet the Buller representatives on the Main Highway Board at a confrence io •I’-range heavy traffic fees.’’ On the motion of the ’Chairman and Cr Byrne it was resolved that the Secretary of rhe Conferenee be informed this Conn•il inot in favour of apirn’iii ng one vehicle inspector for the whole of No. 12 district. It was decided on the motion of Cr. O’Regan and Cr. Bell to seek a Public Works grant of £5O to effect repairs at the creek at the lower mid of Capleston, regarding which Air T. Comerford wrote. Ii Wes decided on Crs P.M! and O R i.Gs motion to inform Mr G. T.- i-k ingt-.n ’.hat the Coune;i is only prepared to fence the road to D. Doug las’s property at Waitahn as far as that property, and will > urclin.'-e the land for a road at Lib > subject lo lh<‘ required conscnr neing given. Regarding motor vehicle registration it was decided on the motion of the Chairman and Cr Me Vicar to support the Buller County’s proposal for insurance to .-over third parties. Letters were rece.ved from Distr : ct Engineer, Public Works Department, •('•'l R. P. Hudson M.P, the Matakitakiing la mls •Junction road: and the Terry Reserve a t Inangalim Junction; from N.Z. Counties Association re rp‘»ulatinns as to the use of motor lorries etc.: from the Chairman of the Main Highways Board re mainten.-mee subsid.es on work done by local authorities: and from R. Bolitho drawing a r. tention to the state of the suspension bridge at Black's Point, the latter being referred to the Engineer to attend The financial potion was shown rs follows:— Overdraft, £9XI/7/10; g ? .;. nceounts, £396/5/1; Hospital’, £I.Y ■>-■'o; grants, £231/8/1; overdraft as at yel>. 23. £1,761/15/6,