WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 7

WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL

The Auckland Education Board has written to the Waitomo County Council desiring to ascertain by what authority certain schools had been closed and the building used as polling booths during the recent county election, as no such authority had been given by the board. At the monthly meeting of the council held at Te Kuiti on Friday, when the subject was brought up the county clerk explained that the usual procedure had been observed, it being customary for the schools to be used for such a purpose. It was decided to inform the board that any transgression had been committed unwittingly, as similar arrangements had been carried out at previous elections. The District Highways Council notified its inability to subsidise the cost of lighting three important road junctions as suggested by the council, where it was desired to have direction posts illuminated at night. The serious position in which the Aria township was placed owing to complete isolation due to the continual flooding of the Te Kuiti—Aria Road, was pointed out by the secretary of the Aria Dairy Company. This company requested the council to complete the metalling of the Paekaka Road, or to construct a road deviation which would avoid the country subject to flooding. It was suggested that the member for the district petition for a special grant. It was decided to communicate with the Highways Board and ask for a decision regarding the Totoro Road (Pio Pio to Mahoenui) and ask for a deviation at Cooking’s property, as requested by the Aria Dairy Company. Eight or nine bridges in the Mokauiti district are badly in need of repair, and Cr. Georgetti was given permission to interview the Minister of Public Works when in Wellington, to see if some assistance pan be given in either repairing or rebuilding the bridges. A donation of £2O toward the Earthquake Relief Fund was decided on by the council.