COUNTY COUNCIL

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1937, Page 5

COUNTY COUNCIL

TUESDAY/JULY 13. NOTICES OF MOTION 1. The Chairman to move : " 7i Thab the accounts for the month of MayJune, 1937, as revised and recommended for payment by the Finance Committee, amounting to £———, be passed for payment.” 2. The Chairman to move:—“That the Council do now make and levy pursuant to the provisions of sections 51-58 of the Rating Act, 1925, and its amendand sections 120-101 of the Counties Act, 1920, a general rate as follows : “(a) Five farthings in the £, an the capital value of all rateable property in the Northern Riding of the County of Westland. “(b) Five farthings in the £, on the ' capital value of all rateable property inin the Central Riding of the Countyof Westland “(c) Five farthings in the £ on the capital value of all rateable property in the Southern Riding of the County of Westland. - “Such general rate to be for the period commenced on the Ist day of April, 1937, and ended on the 31st day of March, 1938, and to become due and payable in one sum on the 31st day of July, 1937, at the office of the Westland County Council, Hokitika.*’ 3. The Chairman to move:—“That pursuant to tlie provisions ot the Local Bodies Finance Act, 1921-22, and the Special Order made by the Council on the 12th day of January, 1937, and confirmed on the 16th day of February 1937, the Council do now make and levy the annual recurring special rate of one farthing in the £ upon the rateable capital value of the special rating area in the Koiterangi district for the Camelback protection works, for the year commenced on the Ist doy of April, 1937 and ending on he 31st day of March, 1938, and to become payable* in one instalment on the 3lst day of Julv. 1937, at the office of the Westland Countv Council, Hokitika. 4. The Chairman to move:—’’Thaff the fullest support be offered Mi* O’Brien, M.P. for the. district, in his advocacy for 'the extension of the railway to South Westland, and that! the Council (protest to the (Govern- ' ment against any. alternative scheme for utilising road transport for timber haulage as being definitely uneconomical. seriously dangerous to other roadusing traffic, peopardising tourist pati ronage, and being liable to materially depreciate the national return from tha forests through high costs of transporting inferior grades of timber which with railway facilities couhr he de* livered to the centres for various utility purposes.” t 5. Cr. Donovan to move: “That J Dochertv Creek road be repaired at a cost not exceeding £B.”