WAITEMATA COUNTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16670, 15 October 1917, Page 6

WAITEMATA COUNTY.

» + e Tee Waiteniata County Council met on 1 Friday, the chairman. Mr, Marshall Laing. presiding. ' The following contracts were let:—River-head-Kumeu Boad, two culverts and filling; ) TaupaM-Kumeu Road, 70 chains formation; . Wijimouku-Beweti Boad, 55 chains widenI ing} King's bridge and Stone? Creek 1 bridge, Henderson Valley, re-erection in t wood and concrete. The expenditure of £50 . to improve t Hobbs Hoad, Wbtingaparaoa, . was authorised, and it was decided to call tenders tor metalling Mountain Boad, Henderson. The Auckland City Council wrote declin- , ing to contribute to the cost of reerecting the Brooklyn bridge, or to i vote a sum towards the cost ot I forming the road from the bridge .o ! Cornwallis Park as an alternative, as it did ' not agree with the County Council's conten- ' tion that the bridge was destroyed by debris ■ from the Nihotupu reservoir works piling up : against it in a flood, It was decided to ; reply emphatically affirming that the debris l caused the destruction of the bridge. The chairman reported that he had inter- ! I viewed the Mayor of Auckland regarding , r the allegations that undue influence? had . been used by the city- traffic inspector's staff • Ito induce owners of m&tor-cara who re- ' •sided in the country to register their cars . with the City Council. The Mayor had as- • ; sured him that the allegations were in- ' founded, but he was not satisfied. It was ' i '-ctided to advertise that the Waitemuta ' I County Council was a registering authority • under the Motor Begulations Act. > Messru. H. Day and W. H. Hart and the '. engineer were appointed to inspect a quarry ■ offered to the council as a source for obtain- ' ing the metal required for the Birkenhead ' and Takapuna ridings. ' Dedication. of Koraha Road, Kumeu rid- ' in?, was accepted, subject to certain con- ] ditfons. _ I ' A claim from the Avondale Boad Board j for 10 per cent, of the cost of the maintenance of the portion of the Great Norih Boad through the board's district was repudiated. The board notified that it was proportioning the cost as follows:—Avondale Road Board, 1 per cont.; City Council, 80 per cent.; New Lynn Town Board, 13 per cent.; < Waitemata County Council, 10 per cent.; « Point Chevalier Road Board and Mount ' tfden Borough Council, each 1\ per cent.; 1 Mount Boskill Road Board, 1} per cent. ' The engineer was asked to furnish esti- E mates of the cost of proposed loan works in ' the west coast district of the Waikumete : riding. w i