WAIKATO COUNTY AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19663, 15 June 1927, Page 8

WAIKATO COUNTY AFFAIRS.

RATES FOR THE YEAR SUCCESS OF MOTOR GRADEK [BX TELEGRAPH. —-OWN CORRESPOND EN i HAMILTON, Tuesday. The following rates for 192i-z8 wert confirmed at a meeting of the Waikatc County Council to-day : —Ruakura,. Koto tuna and Taupiri ridings, u general rat* of in the £; Huntly riding, a geu eral rate of 2d in the £, special rates oti all loans raised in the district to be col lected; Cambridge ridiug, a general rate of 3-8 d in the £, and a special rate of 3-8 d in the £ over the area of the riding severed from the Piako Oounty under the Act of tttel; a general rate oi l£d in the £ over the Te Miro outlying district; Tamahere and Whangamanno ridings, a general rate of 3-8 d in the £; Hopu tlopu drainage area, a special rate on lands classified A of 5-8 d m the £; lands classified B, id in the £; a separate rate for maintenance of 3-Sd in the £ on lands classified A and £d on lands classified B. The engineer, Mr. A. A. Woodward, reported that the motor grader recently purchased at a cost of £977 was doing excellent work on the Hamilton-Paeroa Road. Owing to the distance covered in a day, the question of quarters for the driver was a difficult one, and the only solution would seem to be to provide him with a travelling hut. A suggestion that the Waikato Council support a resolution passed by the Horsham Downs branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and ask the Government to amend the Motor Vehicles Act to exclude from heavy traffic licence fees all motor-trucks under 2£ tons gross weight loaded used by farmers for their own use was made by Mr. T. H. Henderson. Mr. S. Lye predicted that legislation would shortly be enacted revising the question of the collection of heavy licence fees. The council decided to dofer the matter until the provisions of any pending legislation became known.