MAURICEVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8996, 5 December 1907, Page 3

MAURICEVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL.

i The ordinary meeting of the | llauriceville County Council was , held on Saturday last. There were j •present:—Crs F. W. H. Rummer; (chairman), J. F. Heckler, C. | Churchill Jackson, H. J. Dagg, C. j A. Wall and J. E. Perry. | Mr Rawson, surveyor, forwarded a j notice from the chief surveyor, stat- i ing that the plans of the reserves to | be°exchanged had been approved. j Two cases of infectious disease were reported, one at Mt. Bruce road and another at Hastwell. Mr S. H. Rasmussen wrote requesting that the road drain in front of the gate leading to his property be cleaned out, and a culvert put in. It was decided to get the drain cleaned out, but as the culvert appeared to be solely required for the applicant's own convenience the council could not orovide it. Mr W. A. Miller requested permission to erect a uiluing on the gravel reserve occupied by him at Mt. Bruce road, and in the event of the building being erected on the reserve, ha desired the council to either compensate him when ha ceases to occupy the reserve, or allow him to remove the building. It was resolved to inform Mr Miller that if he places a building on the reserve it must be entirely at his own risk, and no compensation can be paid, or permission given to remove it. Mr McDonald, sawmiller, Mt. Bruce road, attended the meeting and asked that a small bridge on the road near his mill be renewed, and otfered to contribute £5 towards the A cost. He also agreed to take out a license for his timber waggon. It was resolved to instruct the overseer to attend to tho re-building of the bridge as soon as the timber to be supplied by Mr McDonald is available. The overseer reported that he had had metal carted on to the Mangamahoe v o ad. The holes in Bowen road had been filled in by Mr Sheath as far as his mill, and by the council's men beyond this. Da'gg's road is now in fair order as far as Rutherford's. The Ihuraua Valley road needs the formation raised in several places. The Mt. Bruce road requires to be patched with metal, and water-tables cleared. The part of the road in Messrs Coradme and Whittaker's care is in fair order. It was decided to defer consideration of the h*avy traffic and motorcar by-laws until the January meetAn offer was made by Heckler Bros, to purchase the posts removed from the pens in the office yards, ""he matter was left in the hands of the chairman. The overseer was instructed to get the holes in the road between the Mauriceville railway station and the Muddy Bridge filled in aa soon as the weather is favourable. The clerk was instructed to apply to the cemetery trustees for a refund of the sum of £1 paid in error for a burial plot for a person who commit- ' ted suicide, the Cemeteries Act requiring such to be provided free. Accounts amounting to £139 Is 8d were passed for payment. The next ordinary meeting of the council wi'l be held on Saturday, January 4th, 1908. At the- adjourned annual meeting of the council, which was also neld on Saturday last, Cr Kummer was reelected chairman of the council for the current year.