TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1915, Page 7

TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MEETING, The monthly meeting of the Taranaki County Council was held at the county office, 'New Plymouth, yesterday, When there were present: Cra. J. Brow* (chairman), J. A. Morten, D. McAllum, C. Andrews, W. Binnie, G. A. Rridgeman, A. E Laurence and J. & Conaett. " _. v " CHAIRMAN'S KEPORT. The chairman reported that he had interviewed Mr. Mace with reference to obtaining metal from his property. Mr. Mace had agreed to allow them to prospect and had accordingly arranged with the foreman to do so. He had visited PranHey road pit and reduced the output from there by 100 yards. A good job was being made of the pit. He had visited the Beach road at Tataraimaka, and owing to the expense or getting pipes, etc, on the site, he had considered it would be advisable to erect a, concrete culvert. Mr. (Ponwarden bad agreed to build the culvert if the concrete were placed on the site. With the engineer, he had waited on the Okato Road Board, who had agreed to pay half the cost of the culvert placed by the Council at the junction of the Main South and Leitn. roads. The chairman's actions wera confirmed. The chairman was empowered to purchase spare tyres, etc., for the motorcar. ENGINEER'S REPORT. The engineer (Mr. R. W. Fisher) reported as follows.— Crushing plant.—The plant had been engaged aa follows: Completing at Atkinson's depot, 192 cubic yards; Durham road depot, 596 cubic yards; Rugby depot, 668 cubic yards; total, 1458 cubic yards. The plant was now at Tariki. The large roller had been with the crushing plant between Inglewood borough boundary and Rugby road. It was found necessary to lay her up for a few days for the purpose of overhauling. The small roller had been engaged completing on Foreman J. Holmes' length, and then, went to Foreman Batten at Mangorei, and was now engaged on Foreman Seamark's length, Omata riding. Moa Riding—The. roads in this riding were in good order, with the exception of the length recently metalled between Inglewood borough boundary and Waiongona, on the Mountain road. The foreman had been fully engaged with the crushing plant at the other depots in his length, but was now devoting his attention to blinding and raking in metal. The Zig Zag had been cleared of all slips and was now in good order! The bridge on Bathurst Flat reported on at last meeting had be"en repaired, together with the remaining bridges on Foreman Bennett's length, which liad new decking put on where necessary, Mangorei Riding.—Roads in this riding were in very fair order, and maintenance work had proceeded satisfac: torily. There were several small heaps of stone along the top ends of Kent and Maude roads, which had been picked up from time to time and accumulated to the extent of from 40 to 50 yards. They were too large for patching, but would repay carting and putting through th« crusher at Korito. As instructed, he reported on complaint from Mr, Lilley, at the upper end of Alfred road, and found that there were several place* where large boulders were cropping up through the cart track, and these he had instructed Foreman Batten to remove. Some of them would require blasting, and for this it would be necessary for the Foreman to engage a man to assist him for a day or two. He had laid of! the Hill road tunnel as instructed when taking oveif duties, and after careful consideration did not feel justified in advising the construction of this tunnel, because the natural course of the river did not lend itself to a tunnel at this point; the nature of the country through which the tunnel would have to be driven was such that it would require good substantial timbering left in to support the roof, as there was insufficient depth of solid to carry the road'; and the cost would be at least 25s a foot to drive, including setting timber. At a low figure he estimated the cost of the tunnel, incliiaing timber and clearing river-bed of boulders for five chains on the upstream side of the tunnel, at £3OO. Added to this they had the fining at the site of the existing bridge, about 2500 cubic yards, say £125. He'therefore recommended that the bridge should be constructed at the present site in concrete. Waitara Riding.—Roads in this riding were in good order. A timber culvert 2ft square collapsed at the foot of Big Jim's Hill, near the Waitara borough boundary. This culvert carried the water across the main road of, what was tlie boundary creek between the Waitara borough and this county, and therefore it was incumbent on the borough to share equally the cost of renewal. He had relaid the culvert with 30ia concrete pipe 3 and made the road safe for traffic. It would, however, be necessary to exLend the culvert when pipes v,'er<s available and to intercept the crci: at a point higher up-stream than formerly, which would improve tlie coiuve of How and enable tlie existing drinking place for cattle to be filled in. He had conferred with the Mayor of the borough (Mr. Bcckbessinger), Who had concurred that the drinking phiie was not required :;o close to the borough, and that the widening of the road at this point would be a very distinct improvement. The bridge carpenter had renewed several of the joists and re-decked the Wa.iongor.ii bridge on tlie Manutahi Toad, at Lepperton, and tightened up the truss rods, and was now engaged similarly on Che bridge near the mill on the Richmond road.

Omata Riding.—'The roads were in very good order. Foreman liva was engaged getting stone out of the Franklcy road pit and was making excellent progress. Tlie chairman had been over the roads in this length and had reduced the quantity for the current year's requirements to 2350 yards. Tlie creek had been turned through the Tukapa tunnel, and lie found it would be necessary to call upon the property owners to clear tlie willows at the lowi-r end of the tunnel. Before serving notices he would be glad if a small crtnimitte could visit the locality.

Okato Kiding.—General maintenance work liaj proceeded, and the roads were very fair. The Timaru tunnel repair? had been completed at a cost of £47 -is Gil, which was £2 5s M in excoss of hia estimate, but lie bad improved what was formerly n very bad corner on the hill by a, side cutting round the v»>inl and had proved a great improvement. HV had laid oil' the Hoani road' loan of -.C-'infl and recoinmended that the work \,z let forthwith in two i-ontracts, one for formation and the other for metalling, and had prepared the specifications acjaidingly. Some work was required on the Minarapa road. About 26 chains down this iroad the aurfaca water wa-i running on to private property, and it was 'necmary to remove a small bank, for

a distince of two or three clu'a.3 lc> permit of forming a water-tal>Te. .'.he bridge campenter would be in this riling shortly and would part up a plank bridge and handrail on the Upper Puniho xoad a3 instructed. He estimated thß amount of the loan required to l.e raised on the lower Pi tone road for the purpose of forming and metalling at £1550. The length of the road was three mile 3. Tie foreman had been engaged on this road effecting improvemeuts already. After discussion, it was resolved that a committee, consisting of the chairman, Crs. Morton and McAllum, visit the site of the proposed Hill road tunnel with the engineer,

The chairman and Cr. McAllum were appointed a committee to visit Tnkapa road as requested. ■ NEW hospital! The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board notified that further, progress payments of £6863 4s sd, on account of the new hospital building, had been made, and asked that the council should forward a cheque for their share. Total payments to date on the new hospital amounted to £29,692 Os lOd. The payment will be made, MANGAONE OBSTRUCTION.

Mr. R. S. Fairfax Cholmeley drew attention to the state of a culvert from his property which had fallen in, and besides damming the water back, was dangerous to traffic. The engineer stated that nothing could be done to this culvert until the obstruction had been removed from the Mangaone stream, which were the subject of litigation at the court. It was decided to inform the solicitor for the settlers interested that the council agrees to the compromise that the various persons concerned should remove all willows and other obstructions to the satisfaction of the county engineer, for a width of 10ft throughout the course of the stream, and to maintain a free flow of water at all times. Cr. Oonnett considered that the engineer would be reasonable and not entail undue hardship on the settlers affected. WA WAKAIHO WEIR. The Publk .Works Department notified that the estimated cost of erecting a weir for the protection of the Waiwakaiho bridge was £2645. The cost would be equally divided between the Public Workt Department, the Taranaki County Council, and the New Plymouth Borough Council. On receipt of 25 per cent, of the council's share, and a guarantee for the balance, the work would be started. Mr. G. T. Murray, Resident Roads Engineer, asked the council to inform him whether they wished the Borough, the Government, or their own council to undertake the work. It was docided to forward £220 10s, being 25 per cent, of the cost, at once. The question of providing the money was briefly discussed, and the general opinion was that it would have to be provided by a special rate over a couple of years. GENERAL. It was decided to call alternate tenders for forming and metalling the Hoanui road at per chain. Steps will bo taken to raise the loan for Pitone road. Mr. Peters asked that repairs should be effected to the Alfred road, below the Lepper-Carrington road.—Already attended to. Mr. T. Walsh asked what steps tlie council was taking re metalling the top end of Hurford road, The chairman stated that the engineer had already reported on this and the council had decided that a loan should bo raised for the purpose, A copy of this resolution will be forwarded to Mr. Walsh. Mr. A. O. Knock, District Railways Engineer, notified that the silting up of the culvert under Mountain road and railway at Rugby road did not affect the railway works. Ho presumed that the silting up had occurred since the culvert was put in, and if so, the owner; of the land below the culvert should be called upon to open out the waterway. Accounts were passed as follows: General £374 3b 9d, new hospital building account £3lB 5s 9d, Moa riding £482 Is 2d, Mangorei £3O 15s, Waitara £6l 17s sd, Omata £75 18s, Okato £153 13s 10d; total, £1512 14s lOd. The Agricultural Department notified that goat's rue (galega officilanis) had been added to the third schedule of the Noxious Weeds Act. 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