KAIRANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1511, 10 March 1920, Page 6

KAIRANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MEETING. The Kairanga County Council met yesterday. Present: Councillors J. Linklater (chairman), M. Moody, D. Collis, P. J. Small, G. Craw, C. Anderson and A. J. Taylor. FINANCIAL. The clerk reported the bank balances to be as follows: County furid account, dr., £1022 15/1. Culvert loan account: Taonui Riding, cr., £728 13/10; Mangaone Riding, £557 16 10/; Fitzherbert Riding, £404 17/10. Cottage loan account: Fitzherbert Riding, £llß2 15/9. Motor lorry loan account; Taonui Riding, £l7Bl 3/3. Fitzherbert water race loan (£735 to draw from State Advances), £175 19/6; F. W. Connell Imprest account, £133 17/2. Total debit, £1022 15/1; total credit, £4965 3/4. CORRESPONDENCE. The State Advances Office intimated that the Council’s application for loans amounting to £IO,OOO for treating roads with tar and bitumen and widening surfaces had been granted. The Rongotea Town Board wrote supporting the Council’s resolution regarding the open door policy in the admission of all doctors to the public hospital. The Palmerston North Borough Council also supported it, while the Feilding Borough Council and Kiwitea County Council decided to take no action. —Received. The Manawatu Land Drainage Board intimated that it would pay the Council half the cost of improving the Longburn-Rongotea Road by partially filling in the drain and making a batter, providing the Council carry out certain minor details.—This was agreed to. The Sluggish River Drainage Board asked the Council to call on the settlers on its side of the Oroua River to clear the willows from the banks, which were at present impeding the free flow of the water, thus causing a big body of water to flow up the Board’s drains and inundating the adjacent lands. —Notice to this effect is to be given to the land owners concerned. FITZHERBERT WATER WORKS. The Fitzherbert water works engineer (Mr R. Edwards) reported that the reticulation pipes had not yet come to hand and the number of hands employed had to be reduced. The blasting of rock obstructions in the Kahauterawa stream had been discontinued owing to floods. On the middle of last month the highest flood level experienced for many years occurred; the water reaching a depth of 11 feet at one spot. VARIOUS ITEMS. The Council decided to make their annual inspection of the Mangaone Riding on Monday, 22nfi inst., Taonui Riding on Tuesday, 24th, and Fitzherbert Riding on Friday, 26th. It was resolved that the Borough Council be asked to continue tarring from Featherston Street to Boundary Road as the Council proposed to go on with tar-sealed roads immediately. Accounts amounting to £2024 19/10 were passed for payment.