WAIKATO COUNTY COUNCIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15004, 28 May 1912, Page 10

WAIKATO COUNTY COUNCIL.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWUT CORRESPONDENT.] Hamilton, Monday. At the last meeting of the Waikato County Council Mr. 0. Ross wrote stating that ho tad appointed P. Macpherson (supervisor for the AVTunspunarino Bold Board) u clerk 'of work* for Boole's bridge, and his action was approved. In response to a request from the Public Works' Department, Messrs. Bailey and Itoss were requested to make- applications for the necessary grants, including £600 tor Leslie's Gully culvert, through the local oflice. The Marine Department notified that the £1 for £1 subsidy up to JilCO was gtill available for clearing willows in the Te Onetea stream. The ■matter was held over till the next meeting, Mr Rosa reporting that the work had been delayed '!'• through the rising of the river. | . A. request from the Tamahere Road Board for a grant in aid of an additional span to the Vici'--'.'- toria bridge was held over. The Ngamawahift Town Board forwarded a letter f • from the Minister for Public "Works, stating that ft.,, the survey and the collection of the necessary t data to allow of plans being prepared for the J bridge over the waikato lliver at Ngaruawahia' £ had been made. It would be necessary, if thin "t , ■wort: was to be carried out by the Department, that the local bodies should arrange, for the ,'" ' payment of their quota at £1 for £1 up to £500. I?, was decftl'e'd to .ask for; a commission to alio-' , " <\iro the cost- * ■ .••■-,■ lb was (ledtleJl to BfrikQ.a general rate of one K' """vf-' ."■ birthing - cosfc-'■*;*■," ' ■ It was a general rate of cne farthing' in '„..'., , * Tho engineer reported that satisfactory pro- * ' ; mm wan Wißff i«do itj tt» erection of Leslie's OulJy CTdrert, a* wall «» at Brio's bridge, waerxtnlpfc.'.:".' ' \iy\k^ ///, -,' *i »