KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 631, 31 December 1913, Page 3

KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL.

The ordinary sscd':- o: the Kawhia Councy Gormen was hil.i on December 22nd, :hc follovvi-is eoursciilovT being jivsss-M. -- d'2 r : ■: \~;. etun;;nan, Ncrtor:. Ztzzr.: ■ ".■ :vha":. CORRESPONDENCE. The Ui:do:-£ ; w:icvcry Public Works Departm-;-;:: --The Minister regretted that hs colI." not favourably entertain thv- CTviucil's suggestion that the Sihi iv.2d by- formed to 14 feet in lieu cf making a grant of £SOO to the Ccui.cii, as the road had already been vested in the Council for control and maintenance. The Council resolved to f.roiest against the gazetting of roads as county roads until thej' have been formed tc 14 feet, ;:; Tbe district engineer promised an engineering survey of the Muturangi road as soon as possible. The district engineer thanked the Council for its offer of the use of_ a grader for work on the PirongiaKawhia road.—lt was decided to put the grader on the road at the first opportunity. The Prime Minister thanked the Council for its resolution expressing appreciation of the action of the Minister of Justice and himself in connection with the strike. The Raglan County Council enquired whether the Council was prepared to contribute 50 per cent, of the cost of repairing the upper Waitatuna bridge on the boundary between tha two counties. —The Council agreed to contribute its shareEngineer's Report. The weather during the past month has been very bad. causing considerable damage to all roads throughout the County, 2nd it has been necessary tc employ a large number of men clearing slips and generally repairing the roads. Owing to the extremely bad weather experienced I have been unable to commence work with the grader, but it has been set up and men and hcrse3 are encamped at Kinohaku in readiness to commence immediately weather will permit. The Public Works Department have accepted the Councils offer of the loan of the road grader to repair the Pirongia to Kawhia road reform the township boundary tto the junction of the Kawhia to Actea road, as the work cf the Council will require the.use or the grader for sometime to come I would advise, in order to keep faith with the Government, that the grader owned by Mr R. Corlett be hired and loaned in place of the Council's grader, the amount of hire being the Council's contribution towards the cost of the work. A3 it has been definitely decided to raise the loan for metalling the Awarna to Mahoa road I would advise that the work of re-forming and preparing the road for metalling be proceeded with at once, as it is desirable that this work be completed sometime before the metal is laid, and I propose to employ the grader and scoops on this work as soon as the work at Kinohaku is completed. Mr F. G. Stokes has made all preparation to recommence work on the Okunata road metalling as soon ss weather will permit. The crusher hs3 been set up and in working orders, and sufficient metal has been quarried to insure a good start immediately the weather is favourable. The works

•iow in hand include only one foliation contract which is one the Kauri road,and.as this includes a good deal of dray work I have Been obliged to suspend work until the weather i 3 mora favourable. The plana and cifications for constructing tha Kinohafcu to Waiharakeke road have not been approved by the Public Works Department, th?y requesting that the width of this and future work on all roads be reduced to 10 feet I desire your instructions before proceeding further with this work. I proDose between this and your next meeting to carry on such works as are now in hand, to reform and prepare specifications for metalling the Awaroa to Mahoe road, and to prepare plans and specifications for expenditure of such Government grants as may come to hand and which .have been previously expended by the Council. Loans. were passed in connection with the Awaroa and Pironga West loan? levying 'a rate of 1 3-16ths of a penny, and 2Jd respectively. Dog Tax.—The dog tax was fixed at 2s 6d for working dogs and 10s for others for the coming year. Votes for Roads.—-In was resolved to'request tha department to authorise the various votes for roads in the. county for expenditure as early as possible. Awakino County.—The engines* 1 was granted permission to. prepare plans and supervise the expenditure of the Kiriieftere loan for the Awakino County on condition that the cost of same is paid to the Kawhia County Council.