WAITOMO COUNTY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22345, 17 February 1936, Page 10

WAITOMO COUNTY

BUSINESS BEFORE COUNCIL DUST NUISANCE AT PIOPIO [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] TE KUITI. Saturday Exception was taken by Mr. L. R. Jones at the Waitomo County Council meeting to the practice of the Crown in letting abandoned land to settlers over long periods on temporary tenancies. Under such tenancies the County Council was unable to collect the rates. Support was given to the Aria Settlers' Association's request that le Kuiti should be made a centre for the distribution of ragwort seed fly. A request to screen pictures at Aria on Good Friday and at Piopio on Anzac Day was declined. The need for obviating the dust nuisance at Piopio, which was polluting foodstuffs in the shops and damaging goods, was strongly urged by Mr. G. W. Crocombe, and it was decided to write to the Highways Board asking for sealing through the township. It was reported that sealing was to bo done at Mahoenui, and it was suggested the Piopio work should bo done wliilo the plant was in the district. It was also decided to reopen the question of a stock route detour past the township. The engineer reported that the Mairoa highway of 10 miles had been rovokcd in favour of the Mangaotaki and Mahoenui-Kawhia roads. Under the heading of Piopio-Mangaohae highway, 18J miles had been declared a highway. The council also adopted tentative proposals for submission to the Public Works Department for consideration in preparing the 1936-37 Estimates.