EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1932, Page 12

EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL

MODEL BY-LAWS SUPPORTED. ENGINEERING WORK LAST MONTH. The Egmont County Council yesterday decided to support the adoption of a model set of by-laws by all Taranaki County Councils. Mr. J. Connett, president of the Taranaki Local Bodies’ Association, wrote submitting reasons why the model bylaws should be adopted. It was very desirable that the’counties of Taranaki should be unanimous, he said. . Their by-laws, the chairman (Cr. W. C. Green) stated, were as up-to-date as most but should, have been revised years ago. For example, it was an offence to go through a township or across an intersection at more than 12 miles per hour. v Then there was the license fee for hawkers. As the by-laws stood it would cost a hawker about £lOO to . go round the mountain. Naturally no magistrate would enforce the payment of that fee. It appeared that various members of the association had now changed their minds, although the by-laws had been under discussion for two years. He recommended all the Taranaki courities to come in. Not a great deal more expense would be involved than had already been met. It was decided to give Mr. Connett’s letter support.

The engineer, Mr. J. G. Mclvor, reported that on the Main South Road deck-, ing had been repaired on the Ouri and Punehu bridges. The Oeo deviation had been dragged and blinded. A little banking had’ been done near Rahotu. The rfietal portion of Skeet Road had bean patched and blinded. Shingle had been dumped for sealing work on Ihaia Road. The Kiri Road had been patched and blinded, the watertables cleared and the culverts cleaned. Drains and watertables had been attended to on Watino, Oeo and Stratford Roads. Patiki Road had been patched and blinded. About 230 yards of paddock stone had been dumoed for prushjng near Mangahume. _ Forty chains of the Kahui Main Road, below the Rautini stream, had been remetalled, rolled and surfaced with a coat of shingle. The upper read had been graded, patched and blinded. A wooden culvert was replaced with 15m pipes. Heavy patching had been done on the Ngariki Road near 'Viremu Road, arid the remainder graded. No. 5 men hao been employed patching on Kina Road and draining on Qpua Read. Opourapa Road had be.en graded and blinded. Twenty-two chains of Ruakere Road and 14 chains of Stent Road had been scarified and re-rolled. Patching and grading had been done on Cape, Pungarehu, Parihaka and Bayly Roa Is. Newall Road had been patched. The formation at the lower end of Pungareiiu Road had been trimmed up, but metallmg had been temporarily discontinued as the road vzas not being used. Relief workers had metalled: about 35 chains of the Upper Ihaia Road and formation was being pushed ahead. On Wirepin Road metalling was nearing completion between Ihaia Road and Kaweora Road. Formatim work was proceeding on the latter road- Over 1100 yards of crushed metal ha 1 been used to the end of November on these jobs. The ranger reported that 77 head of wandering stock had be m found ,on the road during the month. Those present were Crs. W. C. Green (chairman), T. Wilson, S. .‘arquhar, J. S. Tosland, E. A. Collins, A. J. Lilley, E. G. Holmes, J. Young and G. Gibson.