MANUKAU COUNTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16850, 15 May 1918, Page 5

MANUKAU COUNTY.

MERGING OF ROAD DISTRICTS. If, The Manukau County Council met yesterdayi ■ the chairman, Mr. A- D. Bell, presiding. \J& 1 , ■..' The resolution ' merging the W&iroa..Bo , ad' 'V ' Board into the County Council flora-June;; •■.'■'■ fV'I'next was confirmed.:,'" , -"51-7%' " ''£}£ • A petition was received from settlers- in the; * Bapaknra road district asking .' that -'■&» /.>*?■£ bounty Council assume complete control in ~ £H. tnat district also, the'Bapakura Road Board tube abolished.; The board wrote in support ~ * of the • petition. which, however, was found not to-be in-order. It was decided-to return -~'•'; it to the board to have it rectified. .... .A similar petition was received from the ■ ' East Tamaki road district, but thirty of those v - ."- whose signatures appeared thereon asked that . their .signatures- be deleted. -It was stated tnat -those thirty v. withdrawals, which were '• quite legal,,rendered the petition ineffective*,.- .' '- and it was therefore decided-- to return it .to':-' -' - ; i the promoters'.'' -■-'-' •'•■-"■-3*2ir-'-' '*.■<?■-'.-< •-45.J-.;:■,...-. --; ■ The Labour : Department wrote'accepting '■- the council's/offer to* form -ahd metal the roanway and make a footpath, on the ' road' "•-'' between Walmsley Road,' Otahuhu. and the v» overhead bridge • at the Eccles-ton -Workers' Estate at a cost of £57. It was reported that ' a contract dor the work had already'been let. ' .J : A tender, of £31 for putting ■: in » 'Btonn* water pipe- drain.: and;iormina- a footpath -'at "* '*■-'" Papatoetoe Recreation Reserve" was accepted* "t~ ; . as was a tender of £55 for replacing inborn" /' ''■** crete the culvert in LeigWon'e -Gully, Baps? -' : - ; toetoe. ' :■■-■ * -.< ..- '■;■'■ «■:-;■ ■ ■■-'■ ■ : "'''* . *>>.. .■*.-■. "It .was resolved to ■&* council's '■""'*•■ solicitors to take steps to recover = from the < Mount Wellington Road Board it's "assessed ~ share—about £90—of ,the„ cost of constructing' ■the approaches to the new PRhniur*>Bridgef'i It .was decided that each riding should pay the interest on the overdraft incurred by it. V instead of the interest oh the total overdrS'it being allocated among the ridings on the proportion of the ratable value ~of each*.as formerly. .' ' ..... '.-J.;'.' .'.;'.' ■' ''S:~2'~,*vsr !