STILL-BORN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15444, 5 September 1914, Page 7

STILL-BORN.

RAUKAPUKA COUNTY. LOCAL BILLS COMMITTEE. SUBMITS ADVERSE REPORT. Mr G. \Y. Animate, chairman of the JVnuika Road Hoard, lias iv ccivcd a wU 0 ... l >:.ic itussagc from -Mr iJus- | ton, j'l.i'., nau that tho | XjUL'tii jji.ib nas recom- ' mended that the Riiukapiika County bill Ik- n.it allow ou to proceed. i'l : tne House yiM-s viioct to tins recomniemluuuii, iu aunusc certainly wul, it, will moan mat mere can be 110 subdivision <.i 1110 iiur.uuuic County as it now exists. Messrs J'', it. I'latman (ciiaiiman of tne Geraldine Roatl Board), 15. Tripp (chairman of tho Mount Pool Roatl Board, K. Mackenzie (chairman of the Ueraldine County Council), and John Talbot (as a ratepayer), supported by a very largely signed p.t.tion, apiie.irc.i before the Parliamentary Commit toe and gave evidence iu favour of tt.o Bill. The four members of the Tcmuka Road Board and those supporting them did not doem it necessary to give evidence against the Bill, and contented thornselves with forwarding a petition bearing the signatures of ratepayers representing a large proportion of the capital value of tho Temuka Road District. The capital value of that dis- i trict is one-half of that of the whole county. Copies of the resolutions passed at meetings of ratepayers held at To—i'k:i in t' ,r> question were also sent. The loading opponents of [!!•„• Bill acknowledge having received inn.-h assistance from M? Tsnxton. whose representations. as M-nilier fi>r the district, influenced tho decision of iho Local Bills Committee.