WAIKOUAITI COUNTY COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14926, 31 August 1910, Page 5

WAIKOUAITI COUNTY COUNCIL

Tho usual monthly mooting «( t.\ti> Wnikonuiti County L'ounciil, hold yiiMiil'tiny, was (ittendiMl by Ora Jnlin Ifyiilu (chairman), G. K, Oh'.irllon, tl. W, MiIMH!, K. Laloy, J. M'llill, and A, fl, Oi'Ml, ilnanci: commhteh, The Finance Committor ruportt<il luivhttf oxjuninod accounts amounting |o ,1.1303 \U M, and those worn passed fiif piiyiiii>ht u* lyoommondcd. Tnmlors were dealt with «a fullinv! Supply- of 210 yds gravel, MtVillimVn futd, llawkbury Riding—Fivali (undent (n In. mlleil. Ninety-live and ii-|iiilf oliuiun for' nmtion and culverts, Mount l'(oyn| rnnd -- (!. Kerr, £130, acooptod, Nino and a-quarlor chains formation and nnlvorl, Karitauo protection works, Morton ■•Korr Bros.' Accepted up to £50. Two hundrnd yards mc.tai, Lower Harbour rund-iT, Sykus (5s 9d por yard), £57 10a, ucno-plMl, One hundred yards metal mid repairing 0J ehrvins'soa wall, Lower Harbour nititi F. llurknoss tendered 4s a yard front Ix'Jioh, 6a 6d from quarry, and for walling at £5 i>or chain, ami tho inspector was empowered to spend tho balanco of tho £100 vote on the work. Six chains fencing, • Main road, Waitati—Downos and Watson (£1 per chain), £6, accepted. inspector's reports. Tho Inspector reported as follows: — Hawkebury Riding.—Seventy yards of metal for Snell's road has been broken, and will bo put on the road next month. Tho Mill road is being surfaced, but nothing has been done to clear tho gorso. fiivo culvorts on this road need re-covering. That will take.about 300 ft of jarrah, at an estimated cost- of- £10.—Received and approved, timbor.to be procured. Morton -Riding.—Hie formation contract on the Back Beach road, : Karitanc, has been finished. . The metal. contracts on Main and Stead's roads aro about completed. Tho re-forming and surfacing on M'Donald's and Porteous's roads aro 'finished, and a new culvert has been put in at tho .junction of Main and Stead's roads. The scrub has been cleared off Russell's road. There aro 25 chains of this road uninctallotl, and to give it a'coat of'metal at 11yds to tho chain would require 275 cubic yards of metal, at an estimated cost of £90. To metal 10 chains on Lewis's road, Comer Bush, would require 120 cubic yards, at. on estimated cck-c of £36. The gorso on tho Mountain Track road has boon cleared opposite- Mr White's property, so that the work of re-forming it at the far end can bo commenced as soon as labour is available.—Tho work on the 'Mountain track to be gone on with, and tenders to bo oallcd for necessary metalling on-Russell's and Lewis's roads.

Blueskin Riding.—Tho metal contract on the Purakanui road lias been completed, and hall the- metal for the Heyward's Point road broken. The formation on the Show Ground road will be completed about tho end of this week. All the scrub has been cut on each side of the Port Chalmors-Bliieskin road from the watering trough to the junction of tho Mopanui road. Tho footpath along the Lower Harbour road from barracks to near boundary of tho county has been regravelled. ' Some of tho gorse on M'Kay's road has been burned, but it requires clearing. . The gorse that \vas cut by tho Mental Home authorities as still lying about the road.—Honie authorities to be notified of tho necessity of clearing tho gorse off M-ackay's road. .North-Bast Valley Riding.-Ilia formation contract through the Holmes Bush Estate is making fair 'progress, and should be completed during next month. Scrub has been cleared' oIF tho Waitati-Wakari road, the watertablcs cleared, and metal put into the riita from saddle to second bridge. Tho dayman has been on this road nearly all the month.—Received and approved.

CORRESPONDENCE. I Tho Treasury Department forwarded vouchers -for £133, 9s lOd, balance of subsidy under Appropriation Act, £53 lis for metalling road frqm sheepyards *to Morton Station, and £7 6s Bd~for metalling tho Quarry road.—Received. The Receiver of Land Revenuo wrote advising that the sum of £71 3s, " thirds" and " fourths" of accrued land revenue, bad been placed to the credit of tho council's account,—Rooeived.. A reply was received from, tho Minister' of Public Works stating that the council's representations regarding estimates would be carefully consideed.—Received. •'■ ■' Hosking and. Cook wrote stating that they had given Messrs Scott Bros notice in terms of the council's memo, that proceeding's; would go on unless tho amount claimed bo paid before the date .fixed. A further communication of a later date was received from-tho firm indicating that a satisfactory agrcoment might'be arrived at.—The chairman was appointed with full powor to act for the council in the matter. The Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board forwarded claim for levy for year ended March 31, 1911, amounting to £592 13s, or some £48 less than last year.Reoeived. John Wilkinson, acting on behalf of Geo. Broadbent, wrote again with regard to street frontages in Osborne township, Purakanui. Ho wplained that the value of tho property concerned was under £50, and that the council apparently demanded £15 cash for tho certificate required by the District Land Registrar. He considered the council's decision as very unfair and unjust to his olifkit. There was a grave doubt as to whether at law the council could charge any sum whatever. His client was willing to pay £1 per section, but not £3 15s. Failing the counoil taking a more reasonable view he had been instructed to publish the correspondence in tho newspapers and refer the matter to the proper Minister, and also, if necessary, to petition tho Supreme Court to oblige the council to fulfil its duties in a rr/isonable manner. The letter concluded with the request that the council should name its solicitor.— "Give him tho address of Hosking and Cook, and refer him to our previous letter " commented Cr Charlton. In this connection a letter was read from George M'Mulkn, of Pacific street, Roslyn. He wrote asking whether Rowland street, Bradley road, and Annie street, in the township of Osborne, J were streets', or only private roads.—Tho Chairman said that if they did not adhere ' to the charge of £5 a street he did not know where they would be. The people interested in tho streets .should meet together and come to some arrangement.— The Clerk pointed out that a previous resolution, passing two of tho streets,' would have to be rescinded.—After further discussion Cr Orbell moved-" That Mr Wilkinson be informed that before tho council will take over tho roads mentioned Mr Broadbent'must either accept the terms offered or form tho roads according to the requirements of the act, and that ho also bo informed that Messrs Hosking and Cook aro the . council's solicitors."—Cr Laby i seconded tho motion, which was carried unanimously. \ The District Engineer of Reads returned the in.s]>ector's specification in connection with tho Flag Swamp road Government grant, which was approved. Formal authority would be issued from Wellington. The District Engineer, also returned the, specifi'cation in connection with the Karitano protective works subject to slight amendments. ' It was hardly necessary to wait-tho formal authority.—Both communications were received. ■ Dr Donald, superintendent Orokanui I Home, wrote asking tho council's authority ! for planting shrubs on tho road opposite j the cemetery.—Request granted, subject .to inspector's supervision. -■• ■ j Tho Town Clerk, Borough of West Har-. bour, wrote asking the council to submit' a plan of the work for which it wished the. Borough Council, to apply for a special grant.—Bequest to. be' attended "to. M. Beasley, Waitati, wrote asking parmission to fence and cultivate a portion of the road. fronting his property.—Permission granted (luring the pleasure of the council. Gilmour Bros.. Eva.nsda.le, wrote drawing the council's attention to the state* of a road in Waikouaiti overgrown with manuka scrub.—lnspeotor to report. J. Cowan. Upper Waitati. wrote enclosing copy of an agreement, 'entered into bv him with the Wnikouaiti County Conn- I oil conoernin.<; midlines in block HT. North ! Harbour .awl Blueskin district, in November. 1883. He asV-cd that tho mrr-wnent be carried' out without delay M neirlibiurs wor* threatening to close th« read.—The Chairman stated that thr> road. v.-.i= ii> us? I now and tint the comci' Ktl I'/vwrly Cnrin . work on it.—T>. wiis <!"cid'vl to Mr ■ Cowan that, the read had to all intents! and purposes Veen tnken over by the conn oil, and could not be closed. '.'