BRUCE COUNTY COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18676, 4 October 1922, Page 10

BRUCE COUNTY COUNCIL

The monthly meeting of the Brute County Council was held yesterday. All the members wore present, Ihe Chairman (Cr Bell) presiding. A petition was received from residents of Clarendon asking for trucking facilities at (ho Clarendon railway station.-On the motion of (V Driver, it was resolved dial Cr Scott and himself should wait upon (he di-lrkl traffic manager, Dunedin, and (hat the county clerk should write to Messrs J. Kdie, M.P., and J. Al. Dickson, AI.P. Cr Bootl referred to the completion of Ihe Toko bridge. He stated that, ho had foil, a lit 110 (lisiippoinfod that thcro h:tu linen no opening ceremony, lint be had held one or, his own account. (Cr fccott was the first to cross the bridge in his cur.) Ho moved tin: following resolution: —“that the council place on record its hourly appreciation of the manner in which the inline Works Department had al all times treated applications for assistance Iroin us, ami congratulate the dlslri.-t. engineer and his assistants on the very fine bridge they have just completed in the Toko Riding, and that a copy of the resolution he forwarded to the Minister of I’nbbe Works. On the .motion of Cr Russ'-11, a hearty vole of thanks was accorded to Air Nelson for the right-of-way provided through his land while the bridge was under eonstruction. The Town Clerk, .Milton, wrote slating that the assistant electrical engimer, Dunedin City Corporation, had staled at a meeting ‘of the Milton Borough Council that he would ho willing to provide an electrio, light pole at the county end of me Toko bridge ’for the .sum of £lO and an annual charge of £3, if the county agreed to tho exnense the borough was prepared to light the other end of the bridge— the matter provoked a keen debate, and a motion to agree was lost by a narrow margin. . . , • Accounts amounting to £l2lz, os Oil, including £ioo.Bs 3d hospital levy, were passed for payment HYDRO-ELECTRIC POAVKR. The Clerk submitted a summary of the report of the conference held at Balclutha in regard to the proposed Hyoro-electnc Power District and Board. 'I he conference had affirmed the desirability of forming an Electric Power Board for South Otago, the rating area to be half a mile on each side of the transmission line. , n Cr Clark objected to the inclusion ot OatJins as it was, he considered, most advisable to keep to a close and compact district. Cr Driver said that he had been responsible for the addition of Owaka, but it was only a recommendation to the Bower Board, if a board were formed. It could he thrown out at any time. Cr Scott said he did not think them was any harm in including the recommendation, but taken altogether it would perhaps be better ro leave it out. Mr J. Rennie (Aiayor of Milton), who was present by invitation, said to anticipated that the power would go to Finegand only. It seemed to him tlmt to extern! the district to Owaka would only spoil raatfers, as Owaka would bo ogulden on the district, winch, as Cr Claik had ,am, chcukl be kept in the meantime ns close and compact as possible. He pointed out that the Milton agreement provided that power could go outside the area if user wore prenared to pay extra, and if Catlms wanted (6 come into the-district there could be no objection provided .it was prepared i Mr T. G. Henderson (Aldtonlr also pvomnt by invitation, had spoken. Cr Dnm remarked that in the event of I Beard being formed it would automatically take over the Milton contract, a statement with which Air Rennie c] On t!ie motion of Or Duvei. it * . cided that a joint committee of the various bodies should be appointed to go thoroughly "’cr CDrk h lw n R 1 c L local .bodies must puli together They must stick to the icstncted district from Momona to m^the of 0 that 116 The JesSd° district "would not r t,U tr he F°art'o.m' Sd me^ly ha e sten"lheir getting it. Jt was to ga c/s Driver^an'd °CUirk were appointed the council’s representatives.

CORRESPONDENCE. XI,. n s. Tonkinson wrote drawing atSm"". X'J’it if Aili to give it some attention.— Fhe mallei was left io iiie- chairman to attend to.. The Clerk of the Inchelntha River and Drainage Board applied for the use of the county’s pile driver to construct groins on th Ko-dl branch.—Granted. , Mr Walter Cockburn, Moneymore, wrote asking whether the road passing through sections 24 and 25. block 11, Ka.tangDto district, was a county road or not. R nacl been formed for about .22 vests andl he had since Mien gravelled it.-Qis Clark, and the engineer to inquire and icP °Messrs Reid. Rutherford, and Gdray, solicitors, forwarded an opinion as to the state of Argvle street, in Smith s subdivision of Helnnsborough township, North Balclufha. to the effect that the proper course would be to lake the land by proclamation under the Public Works Act.— This course was agreed to. On the motion of Or Renton if was resolved to ask the Telegraph Department to place back to. the fence line the Poles on Telegraph road. I.ncliclutlia.—- Cr Clark remarked' 1 that be bad noticed that the department was often careless as to where the poles were placed on the county roads. Messrs Thomas Middleton and Laird Bros wrote"undertaking to grade the whole of the unmetalled portions of the Summerlnl road to its present formation for the amount of their royalties and any past damage they might have done to the rrad.-Tho clerk pointed out that much trouble had already been experienced in regard to the coal mine agreements, and the-majority of the councillors were emphatic that the council should not break through the agreements. Thev could get the royalties and do the work themselves.—A committee consisting of Crs Renton. Johnson, and Mir engineer was set up to go into the matter,, with power to act. INSPECTOR’S REPORT. The comity inspector reported that a truck of T ogan’s Point metal had been put down on the Kaitangata-Lakeside road, and (he team had been kept busy during the month nutting down nru'nfenace metal in Balmoral No. 1 Riding Maintenance gravel bad also bean put down on the Main road between Mdburn and G'-lcMon. and the contractor bad completed the gravelling on the Glen ore road. The water tables on the Rlcney Creek road, between the school and Alain "road, bad been ploughed out. The road at the foot of the flood bonk at Mr .1 C. Anderson’s. Stirling, had hem completed. and was now in use. The crusher had been taken up to Bishop’s, and about 130 vards of metal crushed. This was now ready to be carted oti to the road. A new culvert of Pin pines b.ad been nut in nn the side road at T-Tolensbronk. mid the Alain road ditch had been cleaned out. Fifty fret of picket fence had been erec‘erl at the southern approach to the now bridge on the Alain road, which liar 1 l-eeii opened for hg'-t traffic on the 15th cf the month. The decking on Hutton’s (bridge on the Coast road and Thomson’s bridge at North Branch bad been repaired, and the steel gbde-s for the new bridge, to bn erected at Thomson's. had beep orde-ed for delivery in January at £ l 3 ?s fid per ton on trucks at Dunedin. Twenty bags of marram grass had come to hand and had been -planted nn die czn,-,,] drifts at "'an gale a. A -pine tree had fallen across the road one night at ATonnt Stuart, and had had to be removed bv tbe enmity. There wrr- ether trees in the plantation which were liable to enine down at any time, abo several heavy hranehe-j banging over Mi" rend, and h" slrnuglv recommended that the owner of {Vin«o Vo given nniioo to rernovo "jivtiling Mi a t was” a danger to tbe travelling PobUe. aUe Io cut ‘kg Jig-the-i fence back to fhe roadline, N t'm Mir temporary road through Mr Nelson’s property _ was no longer mod if was nee-ssnrv that if bo ploughed and sown down in grass, and tint die boles ill the garden In filled with earth, The report was adopted.