WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7789, 8 November 1886, Page 5

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

♦ [FROM OOR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] Hamilton, Friday. With reference to the charge for freight of dead meat by railway, the Mayor has received a letter from Mr. Maxwell,the General Manager of the Railways, stating that with meat properly hung in the trucks for long journeys, the load on the Southern Railways does not exceed two and a half tons, and very often not more than two tons, and that the Department could not reckon on carrying more than the latter quantity. The letter states that the suggestion made that a further concession than that promised, namely, that the meat should be carried for one-eighth of a penny per lb, will be duly submitted to the Minister for Public Works at an early date, but recommends that as the concession offered is sufficient for trade purposes, it should be made use of in making any calculation in arranging for the dead meat trade. Mr, Hudson, it seems, after leaving Hamilton saw Mr. J. Banks, who expressed his opinion that the rate of conveyance offered by the Public Works Department, equal to about one-eighth of a penny per lb, would allow of the dead meat trade being carried on successfully. Some misapprehension seems to exist that the appointment of the managership of the proposed abattoirs has been arranged. There is no foundation whatever for the report. Two tenders only were received yesterday for alternative plans of sodding or fascining the Hamilton West drain, those of John Dngan and Wilson and Goodwin. Both tenders were so muoh in excess of the engineer's estimate that they were declined, and fresh tenders ordered to be called for, the one for removing the earth, the other for sodding or fascining the bottom and sides of the drain. An error of some importance has crept into my report of the Borough Council proceedings of Monday night last. The letter received from the Premier's department notifying the 17th instant, as the date of holding the election of the members for the new Waikato Charitable Aid and Hospital Boards, did not state that if the Mayor of Hamilton were one of the elected he would be appointed "chairman of the Board," but simply that he would be appointed to preside at the first meeting of the Board. The monthly meeting of the Kirikiriroa Road Board was held to-day. Present : The chairman (Mr. A. Primrose), Messrs. H. Steele, F. Thomas, and W. H. Lovell. Mr. T. Runciman, having not attended four consecutive meetings of the Board, the clerk was instructed to advertise an extraordinary vacancy. The engineer was instructed to employ the labour of the surface men in constructing a culvert to a drain crossing the Eureka Avenue Road. The engineer was instructed, instead of preparing plans to repair the old bridge at Nicola', near Ngnruawahia, to prepare plans for a new one, not to oost more than £40. The engineer wrote, stating that he could not continue to work for the Board on the old arrangement, 4 per cent, on works constructed, as with diminished expenditure there was no margin of profit. Mr. Sands was requested to send in a scale of remuneration which would satisfy him to the next meeting of the Board. The engineer was instructed to call for tenders for draining and road formation near Henderson's, at Ngaruawahia, suburbs north. The forming of the Maungawharra bridle track was deferred till the chairman had communicated with the manager of the Waikato Land Association, previous to the next meeting of the Board, This was all the business Cambridge, Friday. Mr. Henry Reynolds' new butter faotory was opened on Wednesday with about 250 gallons of milk, which quantity it is expected will be doubled in the course of a few days. The machinery worked smoothly. The separator is one of Burmeister and Wain's, and though costing considerably more money, performs its work in a far more satisfactory way than the American ones generally in use. The building is of con-' crete, and has been ereoted by Mr. George Powell, under the supervision of Mr. Reynolds.