GREY COUNTY COUNCIL.

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1934, Page 6

GREY COUNTY COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting- of the (ire. County Council ,\\a s held la>.; even ing, theUe being pJjMmi Cis. u. Blair (Chairman), li G. Caru.-, J. It vail, J. Mult-are, A. Ihmne.lnn, A. kob.nson, \\ . I’. Ogi.HK. A Mr Donnell, the Act ing-Engineer (Air 11. Higgins) mill ihe Clerk .Mr M. Arising out Of the minute of the last meeting that the purchase of a new truck he left in the hands o. the '.lCngineer, GY. Carter said that there had be;en a compfaini that th purchase was not competitive, ami he look it that all firms .would In* given a chance. (T, K'yall; Thai is a matter Ini tin- Eriginevr. as it was left :n hi? hands, but I suppose he will gel al The Clerk said that had alreadx Acctnints totalling £2937 Us tsd were passed fotr payment. Th,- Treasury advised the payment !■ th-- County fund of the following: C nempioy nient CIG I 7s Id, fees M.D.L.O £7ti Ss Khl, Halves £702 12s 3d, State Forests £29(». It was derided Io offer no •abjec ticii to the United Sawmills Ltd. erecting a hut on a road reserve aTe Kinga.. The Town Clerk, /1 revwiout h. wrote r< ga.iding the proposed aenudrome and advising that the (’ounc.il’s proportion of the i'Ost would be £ll9, rm a population basis. On the motion of Crs Ryall and Muiearc it was decided that tinmatter be deferred until the nex" meeting of the Finance Committee. G, \nderson, Blackball, wrote ask ing for an access road to his sectioi. in Lingwm Streel (hi tire motion of Cr. Mnlrare : w::> decided that the letter he referred to t hie- Act ing-Engineer. \V. Richardson wrote rega: d' n;.' wandering stock being a menace t< his children going to school at Red Jacks. Or Carter said that he understood that they were wild cattle, as five (>•• six had hern shot in that locality recently. 11 was decided that the roadman ho instructed to take any steps to slo wandering cattle. B. (‘nmm’ngs applied for a permit t< e.arry excess loads of while ‘-ill' ogs ou the \\ aipuiiu. Road. lor : period of six months \ similar :ip piication was made bv G. li. Poole, mi behalf of the Blind’ 1 I hedging (’<> In carry excess loads on lhe Came: on s Terrace Road. Both applications wore referred to the Engineer with power to act Mvsslrs Guinoss- ami K 'itching ha i ! notified the transfer of property at Kaiata from J. Green to S. GunnMessrs G. Gibson and A. Sear (roadmen in the Rotomanu dist.”f,lwrote refuting the statements made b\ Mr P Ryder ’<• the last mootin'of the Council. After lhe Clerk had lead the iet ters, the Chairman moved a vote n confidence in the two roadmen. Tin motion was second'd by Cr Rob inson and carried. S. IT. Gunning wrote regarding th< slate of the road to his property Kai ata. The lettor wa s referred to the ’Engineer Permission to p|Onstl»uct a tennis hall, between the tpnn : s court; and tin road at Moonlight was requested by Mr Aynsley, and the matter was referred Vo the Engineer, with powoMi’s A. Meade w/rote regarding water race al Karoro underminin: her si-dioii, and carrying it out t< sea . The letter was referred to lhe TinAn application by I-' J. Thoms'iii to cut timber on a. road reserve a Camp was referred to the Engineer. Application to i»;ject a. hut on : road reserve at Pagan’s (':< Barrytovvn, was made by Aless: Bomke and Warren, The application was. referred Io the Engineer. The Golden Sands Co. appl : od fot i ermission to sluice a. cut across road reserve at Barry to-wn The Engineer was asked 10 submit a export on the application. A. Mallinson, Tlaupir l , wrote stating that the Tlaupiri River had ent a wav the proleelion .works put i»about 10 chains above the TTaur: - bridge, and he asked that th.e site be inspected. The Acting-Engineer said that, in company with Messrs T)awber and Simmers (of the Public Wc»rks Department) he had inspected th s< eno of the erosion that day. The river could he turned into the other channel a. mile upstream, at the cr.sl of £lOO. Mr Mallinson to provide a horse dray, and man The damage that had been caused to the a»oad lv the last flood could be repaired in a day, hut it would occur again next I flood. The matter was held over for consirlcrat/on at the next meeting Cr. Carter said that ho had had a request from the Seorptary of the Domain Board at Moana for three ' four chains of road t<o he. forme- 1 into the Domain. The request was referred to t 1” Engineer, with power to act