STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 24 May 1917, Page 4

STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

The ordinary monthly meeting washeld on Wednesday. '■. The engineer's report included the following m reference to the South and West Ridings: South Riding: Mountain road, Ngaere—A portion of this road has received a second coat of tar; the remainder will be attended to when theplant has finished working in thenorth. The roller is at present scarifying and rolling from the town boundary towards Ngaere. I will report on ■ the Wmgrove road creek at the next meeting. J West Riding—Tbe crushing plant is* . engaged on the Finnertv road contract, having metalled about half a mile; also 96 cubic yards to the Low- , garth factory. The metal on the Opunake and Poto roads will be crushed: ,on the return of the plant. ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE. The chairman submitted the follow- : ing approximate statements regarding* ! the work to be done till the end of thefinancial year,: j The limit of overdraft was £17,000, and the estimated overdraft was* £12,000, leaving a balance of £5000. To the balance must be added theGovernment subsidy of £1500, bringing the total to £6500. Against this was the sum of £2700 interest t«y Government due in August, thus reducing the amount available to £3800. The estimate of expenditure for the* remaining five months was: Permanent surfacemen wages, £1500: office expenses, £325; hospital contributions, £420; ranger, £50; repairs to roads—Finnerty £275, Opunake £200, Radnor £70, Stanley £50, tar £250. Total, £3140. The chairman said thit?. left only £680 available for other work. Perhaps they might find it necessary to cut oxrb some of the work: on the roads mentioned above. GENERAL. A request from Mi* E. J. Green--, that water be released off his section; at Ngaere was referred to the engineer to report.