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North Canterbury Gazette, Volume I, Issue 1, 12 August 1932, Page 7

LATE NEWS

COUNTY COUNCIL. Every member was present, at the meeting of the Rangiora County Council held this morning at 10.30. The Foreman, Mr. C. L. Dalzell, reported that fifty unemployed men were engaged by the Council and that several jobs had recently been completed —a footbridge at Fernside, the planting of 5000 trees in the Woodend Reserve, the shingling of the Highway at Oust. He recommended rolling the shoulders of the North and RangioraWoodend Roads as loose stones were at present dangerous to horse traffic; also that the Kaiapoi and Waikuku Beach Roads should be shingled. The Traffic Inspector. Mr. C. W. Tyler, reported that 536 drivers’ licenses had been issued—thirteen less than last year. There were still 102 drivers with certificates nnrenewed. A deputation from the Returned Soldiers’ Association waited on the Council and made an offer of 4/6 a cord for approximately 500 trees on the road at Fernside. It was decided that the trees be offered at 1/6 each, an offer that was accepted. It was decided to ask the St. John Ambulance Assn., which had appealed for a donation, whv the donation given last rear had not been publicly acknowledged, consideration of this year’s rpnnest to he held over in meantime. Mrs. F. Horrell wrote thanking the Council for its expression of sympathy in the death of her husband. (Left sitting). ,