WAIHEMO COUNTY COUNCIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1906, 21 August 1890, Page 19

WAIHEMO COUNTY COUNCIL.

The ordinary meeting of this county council was held in the County Offices, Palmerston, yesterday, when there were present : The Chairman (Mr A. D. 'Bell), and Crs T. Dent, J. ft. Glover, j. Hnrtstonge, O. S. Hay, T. Mufr, A. M'Laren, D. M'Leod, and J. K. Robertson. PXTITIOM4 A petition whs rend from certain ratepayers and residents in the Blue Mountain dlatriot calling .'attention to t c condition of what, is known, as Monro's road, and alro to a pinch at the river on the jsame rosd.- Deferred! to the Inipeotdr for'a 1 'report at next meeting.; „,/• - . ■.« Apetltfonsfjjri^a by over 40' ratepayers and residents in 1 the Macrae* riding was received, praying 'the council ridt to put in force tbe bye-law re width of tires. , FINANCE. The Finanoe Committee recommended tbe payment of accounts ior the month amounting to £268 6s lid. , , t „, , i i inspector's bbport. , The Inspector reported that the roads in the various ridings wexe lnfalr-ordor-for the season of the year. Gravel wm recommended for a distance of 92 ohains on the Pigrbot road-^a matter whloh was deferred till the next meeting.. The gravelling !of a road In Btfstiey riding was ordered to be 1 done by tender, and, in Green^Valley riding the surfacing of ; about 20 obalnso'f Bay iis road was ordered- to, be :doneD?th«'surfncerdanf, i » ' ' ' ' - •'cb V &BB3P&NI>KNOK; , The Works department, Wellington, wrote' in reference to acquiring, right- of- road-over section 36, | block IV, Dunbaok dlstriot^and asking for. full par' .ticulari'as',to(exp^r/ieß;lWurriß^.--(-'j?4o clerk: was irequested to furnish the Information. ' Tbe Land Offipej pun*dinr,,wrote intimating that the sum of £126 Is 8d had been pafd into the Colonial Bank, Dunedin, to tbe credit of tbe counoil, being i moneys received from deferred payment- and perpetual (ease third's and small ' grazing runs' fourths for the period from February 3 to April 26, 1890, ns 'under i— Deferred payments: Highlay district, £5 114t:1 14t : Dunbaok district. JB3 17a 7d. , Perpetual leases : iHigWaFaKtricib; £ihiU ;' ; BoaK and Plfiaf, £fl 17s !6d. Small gracing runs :' Book and Pillar, £45 155 ; I Highlay, £41 15s 7d; Budle. £3 2s lOd; StrathjTaferi, £9 19s 4d ; Swlnburn, £7 12s lid;— total, £126 !Is 3d. - Received. ; The Treasury,"' Wellington, wrote informing tbe 'council that the sum 61 £408 Hi, subsidy on rates collected to June 80 last, had been remitted to oredit at the Colonial Bank, Palmerston,— Received. The Maniototo County Counoil forwarded the following resolution pas«rd by that body re the bridge 'over the Taißri at'Uapburn :— " Tbat the ohairman of ■the Waihemo County Oounoil be informed tbat this .council regretk that any difference of opinion should 'have arisen between their impeotor and the engineer of this (Maniototo) county as to whether the contractors for tbe bridge over theTaferi at Oapburn lhave carried out their contract according to specifications or not, or whether rfhy alterations or method tof using material ordered or permitted by tbe engineer of the Maniototo county were' wisely conceived or not ; but reo'ognislDg the fairness of the offer of itha chairman to submit the points in dispute to the arbitrament ot a Government engineer, and to pay lhalf of any expense inourred, agrees to aooeptsuoh ■offer."— B*celved. , Messrs G. Boss and D. Kennedy wrote re deviation of a road through their properties at Dunbaok, offering no objections to the same under certain condi-ditioni.-Reoeived. 1 The Auditor-general, Wellington, forwarded annual and half-yearly balance sheets duly certified, and requesting to be supplied with a printed copy when i published.— The request to be complied with, and oopies alio to be sent to tbe Treasury, Wellington. OONTRACTS. Tenders were opened for the following work :— 'Contract 156— Formation of road and construction 'of culverts on Old Manner road: Peter Lunan, £79 9s; D.W.Pbillp.£lo9 16s ;W. Ellison, £135. Tbe tender of Mr Lucan was accepted. , MUDDY OBBKK. The inspector whs instructed to plaoe a plank 'noross this creek near' the Bushy station, on motion of Of M'Lbod. THK BROAD TIRB QUESTION. The Chairman gave notice of motion to the effect that a special meeting of the council be held on September 17 to frame bye-laws regulating the width of tires of wheel* to be used on the country road, the only difference between tbe recently passed bye-law and the proposed new one being tbe substitution of " five".for " f6nr."and " eight'! for " six" horses to be used in drawing certain vehicles. BPBeiAI. MSKTING. An adjourned special meeting of the council was held, the same members being present, to oonsider annual balance sheet, which was duly approved and the chairman' authorised to sign tbe same. POISONED GRAIN. Mr Mitchell, agent for Andrew's poisoned grain, interviewed the counoil with a view to solioiting orders, Crs Glover and Bobertbok, who had tried tbe grain, spoke in high terms of its efficacy, and tbe council promised, as tbe season was passed, to give it a trial next year. Tbe counoil then adjourned. Mr Fyke, in an addreeß in our advertising oolumnß this week, announces his intention of stan'dinj? for the Mount Ida district at the forthcoming election. Mr Fyke's views are set out in full in the address, to which we refer our readers in the Mount Ida and Dtrafltan districts. The Royal Commission appointed to investigate the charges made by Dr Batchelor respect* ing the sanitary condition of the Dunedin Hospital was opened on Wednesday afternoon.