OHINEMURI COUNTY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20323, 2 August 1929, Page 11

OHINEMURI COUNTY NEWS.

MAINTAINING DEVIATIONS. COMPLAINT BY DEPARTMENT. ' p.v \rir. —nws corp.espon'Dext.] PAEROA, Thursday. Tho Ohinemuri County Council inci this afternoon, the chairman, Mr. Colin Mason, presiding. Mr. A. P. Grant,, resident engineer to the Public Works Department, intimated that when the department, undertook the maintenance of Ross and lijerring's doviations it was not anticipated that theio would be any delay in tho payment of tho council's contribution on account of tates received from tho settlors whoso properties were sit&ated between those deviations. "Tho settlers," said Mr. Grant, "have evidently become acquainted with tho fact that tho Government is maintaining tho road and that (his affords them a rcasonablo excuso for escaping their liability in payment of annual rates. Tho council has a legal remedy for enforcing payment and I am of opinion that it would have been more rcasonablo for the council to have paid tho amount duo to tho department and (hen - havo recovered tho amount from the settlers." The rates were now threo months in ariears and the council was asked if it could not make immediate payment of the amount owing. It was resolved to inform tho department that the council would adhere to its promise to meet its rating liability to tho department "as tho rates became due and were received."

The Thames County Council invited financial assistance in tho erection of a bridge on tho Flikutaia-Whangamata Road. The bridge would servo residents of both counties. Tho request was dele nod for consideration.