THAMES COUNTY COUNCIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17650, 10 December 1920, Page 8

THAMES COUNTY COUNCIL.

t • >' ' 1 -- .J ■' ',- , [nr, XELEOKiPH.-rOWN CORItESrOXDENT.] [ - ■ THAMES, Thursday.' s >At a meeting of the Thames 1 County 1 Council, - authority .was 1 received from the 8 Mines Department for the expenditure of " the following sums■ on road works 1 Parakawai'to ■ Wentworth : Road,,; £500 I Parakawai to Waihi, £100; Kauacrenga ; to Tairua, £299 and Kauaerenga Valley o £250. s / Authority was' also received from 3 the Lands Department for the expenditure ! of '£1000, on the road from Omahu to a Hoylo's Bush. It was decided to instruct _ the, supervisor to prepare tho necessary 0 plans and estimates for "tenders in each 1 case. • Owing to slips having, occurred on s the Ka\iaeranga-Tairua Road, it was".re. a solved to placo notice boards on tho road, d warning travellers that the road may -bo 0 impossible in places. The clerk i was in- • structed to make application to the Lands . Department for a pound site. near the hotel at Tairua. _ A sub committee was appointed to consider ways and means; of V: keeping the coast road in repair, as i^.was found } impossible ito . cater:; for : outside ■ ■ traffic from ordinary revenue. Mr. George S) Hastings : was appointed poundkeeper • and 11 ranger for the county, A. report was ret.' ceived concerning the prospects of Gillan's e metal quarry. " Tho council decided not to it complete! the purchase, but jto concentrate is the staff and equipment on the Kauaerenga f, quarry, for-the county's supply of metal. !8 It .was resolved to apply to : the Mines': is Department : for, permission; to.transfer the ie vote of £300 for reading the Pcpo Block le to tho roadinsf of tho Tairua Block. A d letter was read from the Borough Council, d asking whether the county would agree to is transfer control of the water-race to the ie Borough Council, • It was ': decided to n favourably consider, the 1 suggestion,'and. a i, committee was appointed to draft. terms •e as ' a basis of transfer.;, • ' » ' ======== 10 -*< ' •, s ■ : J