COUNTY COUNCILS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 566, 2 December 1915, Page 5

COUNTY COUNCILS.

TAWERA. At fcliejneeting of the Tawera County Council on Monday, there were present: Messrs Johnson, Manson, James Milliken, John Milliken, B. O'Shaughnessy, and A. Rutledge. . Correspondence was read from the Under-Secretary for Public Works, relative to expenditure of votes for roads and bridges." l • , The secretary of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund forwarded the balancesheet to November 8, and a letter from Mr J. B. Neale, containing proposals for raising £200,000 in £5 shares, whereby the Patriotic Fund would, benefit to the extent of £3OOO per year. ' Two hundred Shareholders would receive prizes 'ranging from £lO to £IOOO, and all the rest would, in the end, get their money back. It -was thought -the scheme, would take a great dear of working-out. . The Mdunt Herbert County Council conveyed a resolution passed by it to the effect that local. bodies should be empowered to "strike a Patriotic Fund rate. ; The suggestion was favourably received.. ... ' • The Petone Borough -Council enclosed a resolution passed by it suggesting an amendment to the War Pensions Act, 1915, on the following lines That in determining the rate of pension payable to any dependent of a member, the board shall not take ikto consideration the property or income from all sources of the and of persons liable at law for the maintenance of the dependent." It was decided to support the resolution. The. clerk, ! Malvern County Council, a- resolution passed at a meeting of . delegates from the Malvern, Paparua, Selwyii, and Tawera Counties: "That county councils be askecT to afa range conferences between the Patriotic Committees and the council in each district, and that "otlief matters" in connection with the Queen Carnival be discussed at such'(Conferences." Iti was reported that,; after a conference With the Patriotic Committees, neither the committees nor the council were in favour of holding a Queen Carnival in this group; ; ' The following tenders for the lease of the Glacier Hotel, Bealey, were received:—J. Bltxmsky £2 10/- per week, J. Brake £BO a year, ;E. Cotton £52 per year, and J. Hoglund £l3O per year. The tender of Mr J.\H6glund was accepted. Mr James : Seymour was re-elected bhairman of the council. .