PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.
■ V 3 [BY TELEGRAPH.OWN correspondent.] * TE AROHA. Tuesday. || The Piako County Council met yesterday, the chairman, Mr. F. W. W alters, | : presiding. . =j The State Advances Office advised that£| £1000 of the £2000 No. 8 Road (Waitoa) North loan, and £1000 of the £3000 Starkey's Road loan had been transmitted. *f§ It was decided to make a recommenda- .> tion to the State Forestry Department m that it should encourage the planting o||l hardwood trees, suitable for poles for hydro-electric lines. The opinion 'wasg expressed that more shelter trees were" needed throughout the Plains, and it was m decided to apply to the department for ; * | supply of two-year-old pinus insignis trees for planting. >'&<s. The boundaries of the Hauraki Pla'"* and the Piako County Council ha*e ;? been altered so as to include in the Piak o /-:; area the Tahuna Riding. The alteration g takes effect as from April 1, and tb» council appointed Mr. E. B. Whitechnrch,,|| Tahuna/ to act as the representative until y the council's election in May. iSi Waitoa ratepayers wrote reminding ** I *3l| council of the proposed formation work 'M on the lower end of No. 8 Road (Waitos) p and the bridging of the Whakahoro draw- -«;| The matter had been held up for about |§ two and a-half years. The council in- M structed the clerk to reply that there bad been difficulties in securing the co-opera- A| tion of the Lands and "Public Work* Departments.- 'mlm
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18354, 21 March 1923, Page 6
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