COOK COUNTY COUNCIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11231, 21 March 1908, Page 7

COOK COUNTY COUNCIL.

THE STOCK TRACK. At the meeting yesterday, continuing the discussion, cm the - stock track, the Chairman said he had seen a large portion of the route and the useless waste of -public money oil the part of the Roads Department in stumping a chain road. Or W. Lysnar protested against the ex. penditure in the absence of any. report that the road could be done for the money .-7-Cr Matthews, replying, said Mr Cyril White was driving stock right up to where the track, ended. Cr Lysnar was making cuch statements without absolutely any authority.— Gr W. Ly&hiir declared he had letters an inch thick regarding the road, \ and from Auckland people and the Roads Department. — Cr .Matthews : They are not competent to judge.— The Chairman, declared that: the Department had squandered hun.bods of pounds on i his route,— Cr W. Lj snar contended that the best evidence was that the Maoris had abandoned ii.e Mau. ngapohatu track in favor of the '••V; :k:,ie. tnoana road.— The Chairman faid i}:s was not so. Although • the / Hon. James, Carroll, had declared that this 'rack was impracticable that did not weighs with him, when the Moricktons^ his son. and others had ridden through. He had }>o Objection to ihe Kngine«;v reporting «n the matter, but ho thought • 1 e Engineer was fully employed. Besides, unless the Engineer had had experience with stock driving, his opinion as to whether it' was a suitable route for iv stock, track was only as useful as the opinion of the Roads Department, which had misled them. There was no, matter of engineering, to decide,— Or W. Lysnar moved as an amendment that no expenditure be made until the Engineer had satisfied himself that the track could be opened up for £250.— Cr F. Lysnar seconded.— Only the mover an seconder voted for the amendment, which yvvas • lost.— Cr Matthews' motion that £60 -be; spent was carried, the dissentients being Crs W. Lysnar, F. Lysiinr, and Boland.— Cr Matthews .urged that they should accept the services of Mr Cyril White, who had kindly offered to supervise the work. — The Chairman • concurred, remarking that the Council should be able to obtain Native labor cheaply. There was only six miles to be done.— The -discussion continued for some' time \in a n informal way respecting the merits of the rival 'routes.-' . - - '••" ;-.:.-''.'■'■ '.":' -.'■:/■ ;■'■■■■ Road works. Cr MaeDonald brought up the question of improving the road beyond R-s---pongaere, "'which, however, the Engineer said, would not be advisable just before the winter.- ' Cr 'Boland moved that the Engineer be instructed to bring up 'a report upon two works in the Tolaga aiding. ; * DIVISION OF WAIKOHtJ RIDING. Cr W. Lysnar moved that the Waikohu tiding be divided into two, taking a road board boundary through the centime. He thoiight it was necessai'y, especially in regard to the declaration of the main roads. Unless , this was done the riding would become very cumbersome, being three times the'. size. '.of the others, and being valued at £1,360,316. When divided, either ; of the Waikohu? subdivisions would still, "be larger than any. other ruling. Te- Karaka, wpuld/ then come into the Whatatutu riding ; all . below that, on the Puha. side, , and Kempthonie's, would i, be. in the other . riding. ' Tlijs, he contended; 1 Would be bettev thair tlveir haying two representatives for^ the one riding.— Cr White contended that they were starting too late, and that there would be no benefit derivable. — Cr F. Lysnar seconded the motion.^ — Cr MacDonald said it was proposed to merge the Waikohu Road Board into the Council, and to have a town district for Te Karaka. He would sooner see that done before subdivision was done. — Cr W. Lysnar said that the subdivision would not hinder the formation of a town hoard for Te Karaka. Unless they made the adjustment now, it could not be done for three years. —The Chairman did not think that they could make the subdivision at this meeting ; it had to be done by special order. It was true, he admit, ted that the W&ikohu was a very large riding. He was inclined to vote for the motion 'on the ground of the large area arid valuation.'— Cr Kenway said that if such an alteration -was proposed, he would move to have his property cut out of the Waikohu riding, since his access was from Tolaga. There were others again in the same position. A reconsideration of the boundaries was necessary. — Cr White said they only had to look down the return to see that the redistribution required carefully reviewing from the beginning. — Or 'Matthews said that slthough he was partially in favor of the proposal, he contended it was premature, since they had to arrange certain questions which arose. — The Clerk said a petition would do what Crs. Matthews and Kenway wanted. — Upon the motion being put to divide the Waikohu riding in half, the proposal was carried by 5 to 4, Crs Kenvyay, Sherratt, White and MaeDonald voting in the negative. It was decided. to call the new ridings Waikohu and Waipaoa respectively. CLASSIFIGATIO'N O-F ROADS. Cr MaeDonald brought up hte notice of motion, declaring the Const road, Tiniroto, and Motu roads : main county roads. In proposing his motion, Cr McDonald said he had only selected these three roads as the main roads of the county; others could be added as the Council desired. If they were declared main county roads, the Engineer could be instructed to report upon their repair, with a view to a loan. — (V W! Lj'snar seconded.-— Cr Matthews moved that all roads in the county (exclusive of roads in Road Boards) be declared main county roads. He thought this was the fairest way to deal with the ques^tiou. The back roads, he submitted, were entitled to expenditure, out of revenue, quite as much as existing main roads. What he objected to was that if the proposal was carried no expenditure would bo devoted until the main road was put in perfect order,' and only the surplus, or an extra rate- upon the lands of back roads, would be available, for such back roads. — Cr W. Lysnar said that the amendment of last year cleared up the whole position, as separate accounts would have to be kept. — Cr Matthews? urged that it would take the whole of the genera! ral« to put these three or four main roads in order. — Or W. Lysnar : You could only do tltat by loan. — Cr Matthews asked that before i far-reaching resolution like- this- was passed they should have a i-eport as to the cost of putting these roads in proper order. — Cr White contended that if the Tiniroto road was left in, the Morere road should be continued. — Cr W. Ly.snnr said it must be the principle of administration, that thev would have to ai;\ke these roads out of loans, not revenue. The proposal would, he declared, place every riding in a better position than ever before. If the scheme for the big loan proposal was not acceptable to the ratepayers, then they would reject it. The Mansapoiki road* he said, could not, as Cr White stated, be declared a main county road. — Cr Matthews said that it was only natural that when the ratepayers along these three main roods had their roads made they would be able to block other loan proposals. — Cr Ken.vay said the list was too small ; the Wai■uata, Wharekopae, Morere, Arai Valley, Puha, and Whatatutu roads' were as imnortnnt as the Tiniroto road. He moved ui amendment for their inclusion. — Cr Matthews seconded. — Cr MaeDonald said he had proposed these last meeting, and l Jiey were rejected. — At 5.15 p.m. the •.natter was about to he put, when it was decided, by five votes to four, to adjourn the question till the nest meeting.

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