COUNTY COUNCILS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 138, 17 July 1914, Page 11

COUNTY COUNCILS.

SELWYN.

Mr K. Wilson (chairman) and Crs Hockridge, Payne, Watson, Westenra, Hall, and Andrew attended the monthly meeting of«the Selwyn County Council. Leave of absence was granted to Cr Murchison. The resolution passed at the last meeting, striking a rate of fiveeighths of a penny in the £, was eonfirmed. .It was decided to call tenders for 800 yards of shingle for the Ardlui Road, 400. yards for the Dunsandel Road, for repairs to the Glentunnel bridge, and for grubbing gorse on the proposed road to give access to Run 88. It was decided that a special meeting be held at noon on August 10; for the purpose of passing a resolution making by-laws for regulating motor traffic. Mr George Derrett wrote, drawing attention to the flooded condition of his land, caused by the growth of weeds and other obstruction in the creek hielGw iiis property, and asked the council ,to exercise its authority under the Land Drainage Act by compelling the owners below his property to remove the weeds, etc., so as to give the water a fclear and 'uriinteirupted flow. It was decided to give the necessary notices. The Auditor-General returned the : bal-ance-sheet for the year ending March :{l, 1914. The Public Trustee wrote stating that the interest on sinking funds had been increased to 4£ per cent, on the first £6OOO, and 4J per cent, on the excess as from April 1, 1914. The chair-, Hian and Cr Andrew were appointed the council's delegates to attend the conference in connection with the proposal to form a Local Counties Association. The Minister of Public Works wrote forwarding a copy of an Order-in-Council, de-. claring the Coalgate Gorge Road a county road. It was decided to request the Department to have the road put in l as good order as it was before the Lake Coleridge heavy traffic commenced. The? Minister of Railways wrote regarding the erection and maintenance of warning boards, ajk, leyel; crossings.