RODNEY COUNTY COUNCIL.
[BY TELEGHAFH. OWN - COHBESPOi-DENT.] WARKWORTH. Friday. The Rodney County Council met at Warkworth on Tuesday, the chairman, Mr. J. Morison, presiding. A tender by E. Wyatt, for quarrying and breaking to 2jin., 300 yds. of metal at Leigh, at 5s per yard, was accepted. It -was resolved to call for tenders for work on Pakiri River Road as soon as plans were complete, and for metalling on the Streamlands-Woodcocks Road, for which a grant of £250 was now available; also, to take steps to take a poll of ratepayers over a special area, to be denned, on" a proposal to borrow £1500 for the purpose of extending the Matakana Wharf and shed. , An amending by-law in reference to the licensing of private: motor-cars, making it compulsory to pay a license fee for such "cars, was passed. The engineer reported that the fine weather had enabled good progress to be made on the ' Warkworth-Kaipara Flats Road, a total length of two miles of metalling being completed to date. There remained only about 40 chains of sandstone spa wis to be laid. Satisfactory work had also been done on the Matakana-Omaha metalling job.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 11
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194RODNEY COUNTY COUNCIL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 11
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