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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3168, 8 July 1892, Page 2

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(feom ode own correspondent.) ' At a special meeting of the County Council on Saturday it was resolved to send the chairman (Mr, Monkbouse) to Wellington to urge several matters of survey and road-making on tbe Govern* menc. — Tbe tender of Mr. MoPhee for forming, grading, and metalling Gordon road (speoial loan) at a cost of £1176, waf accepted.— Mr. Luxton's tender for felling Toko road and olearing track, £187, was also: accepted.— rA complaint was mads by j a settler on Cardiff road of the damage done by stray cattle, and it resolved to have them impounded.— T» engineer re« ported repairs to same road as being urgently needed, and was instructed to have them done.

Nr. Mehaffy intends to try and get the counoil to retam their present enginedriver, whom tbe majority of tbe council consider to be too highly paid. Mr. Weifc is well-paid, no doubt, but it is equally certain that he is an extremely competent man, and that everyone feels that things are going on all right whilst he » in charge. I should have thought the council had already acquired some experience on this subject, and must wish Mr. Mehaffy Boccess with his motion.

Messrs. Murpby and Eerrisk are suing tbe council for damages alleged to have been caused through delay iv crushing metal for Opunake road. Mr. McGregor has resigned his seat on the Connty Council. He is a fair-minded| capable, and pleasant man, who would be a gain to any public body. He will be much missed on the oounoil. There are now only three or four of the origin* members left.

At tbe general meeting ot cfae Cardiff Dairy Company tbe report and balancesheet were adopted. Votes of £20 and £10 were passed to the chairman" and manager respectively. Messrs. GiUhnan and Ealfe were re-elected directors, and Mr. Watson was elected to fill tbe remain, ing vacancy. The annual meeting is to be held ia October in future instead of in July. I was at the Sash and Door Company's mill at Ngaire the other day, of which Mr. RobsQn-is manager, and found a first* rate locomotive duly installed for hauling logs from the bush to the mill. She was a Government engine, and is highly spoken of. It means a lot of outlay, of course, in laying the line with iron rails and having evrything strong, but it must be a, great gain iv the long run over the horse-flesh.

The council have gone so far io the direction oi letting tbe maintenance of tbeir roads by contract aa to have a specification prepared for that work. Would it be asking too much of those who lavor that change to ride from Waipaku to^ Inglewood? That pieoe of road is in Taranaki County, where contraot main, tenance obtains, and it is no^too muob to say that it is a diagraoaUb any-puWwr body. It is one continual succession of ' bad holes, with occasional lengths of road wbioh every trace of gre yel has d ieappeared, and will cost many times more to pat *"* right again than if it had beejfei put in proper repair. I rode over it tny#l|tyew . days ago, so am not going by hearsajflpTjfci nothing is the stitcb in time proverb trcypF than in tbe matter of road repairs, andrw . pays, I think, to have a reliable man atv work putting in the stitobes when they are £ wanted.

Tbe weather has been very bad, and" coughs and colds are plentiful. A few more weeks, and we shall 'be into longer days and finer weather. Tbere are signs of awakening even now in sheltered places.