WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL

Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3087, 10 December 1929, Page 5

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF COUNCIL GENERAL BUSINESS TRANSACTED. The December meeting of the WaiPa County Council at Te Awamutu on Monday, was presided over by Cr S. C. Macky, and also present were 'Crs J. T. Johnson, A. H. Storey, W. McGee, R. G. Speake, E. F. Peacocked -L Jleid, J. S. Fisher, S. Saulbery,'**fe Livingstone, and T. Church. Cr G. S. Clarke was granted leave of absence. The clerk (Mr T. Grant) and engineer (Mr J. W. Civil) were in attendance. , The secretary of the treasury advised that £3 16s, being fines collected in the Magistrate’s Court at Te Awamutu, has been paid to the credit of the County Fund Account. The authorised officer, Public Works Department, advised the payment of £59 12s 9d, being subsidy on maintenance of the Great South Road, to the County Fund A/c. Messrs Swarbrick & Swarbrick reported that at the Magistrate’s Court at Te Awamutu on the 18th ultimo from breaches of the Motor Lorry Regulations Messrs Hole and Morriss were each fined £5 and £1 11s costs, and Mr Fraser was fined £3 and £1 11s Councillors agreed that there is need to conserve all available suppliers of clay or the sides of roads in various parts of the county. The engineer said that with the better class of road being constructed now,, clay will be much needed for banking up the sides of the surfaced road—settlers need clay for ensilage stacks, but the council needs the clay on its roadsides for roading purposses. At times permission had been . granted, but settlers had taken clay from other places. Cr Fisher said in his riding several sandpits were not now required and he had given settlers permission to take sand. He did not think definite prohibition should be absolutely imposed in respect to clay. Other members thought a hard-and-fast rule was necessary. Finally notice was given to move at next meeting that the previous resolution in respect to all soil, on the roadsides be rescinded. There were quite a number of tenders for various gravel carting jobs in the Oraku riding. For one contract twelve tenders were lodged. The following were accepted: Scooping I, yds Punui gravel at Onion Bros.’ property, Huia and Paki, 2s per yd; scooping 500 yds at Brotherhood’s, J. Murphy, 2s per yd; scooping, carting and stacking 550 yards of Punui gravel fronting Davies’, P. C. Hedge, 3s 9d per yd; scooping, carting and delivering 4298 yds of Punui gravel, A. Laurie, 5s 6|d per yd. Mr M. J. Begley, Otorohanga, asked for an explanation as to why lorries are permitted to carry 3 tons gf milk daily and no action taken by the council’s inspectors, whereas in the case of lorries carrying loads of wool of a greater weight than that permitted by the classification of roads the inspector is asked to put himself out to watch for such lorries. The writer said he asked for

justice for the backblock sheep farmers, who only has to overload a lorry once or twice in a year while cream ;*-lorries are regularly overloaded. The sheep farmer is- entitled to as much

consideration as the dairy farmer. It was mentioned that the writer

pays his license fees to Otorohanga County. A Te Awamutu carrier who had been convicted recently had wool on his lorry brought from outside

Waipa County. The engineer (denied that the inspector had “ been in wait,” to catch an offending wool carter. As to the alleged differentation between wool and cream, it should be remembered that wool lorry is overloaded from its starting point to its destination, whereas cream lorries may exceed the weight limit only over the latter part 6f. the journey. The town clerk, Hamilton, forwarded a copy of a report from the borough engineer relating to the provision of a stock bridge over the Waikato River, and asked that the Council appoint representatives to confer with representatives of the. Waikato County Council and the Hamilton Borough Council concerning the matter. The chairman said he could see no benefit to Waipa county of a bridge over the Waikato River in Hamilton borough. Cr Livingstone expressed the same view, and moved that the chairman be appointed to attend any conference. — Agreed to. Mr R. S. H. Richardson asked permission to use the Satam outfit permanently at his service station at Pirongia, and added that the outfit was quite safe and was in no one’s road. —-Granted, subject to special conditions. The director of town planning requested the company of members and officials of the Waipa County Council at a meeting to be held on Monday next at Hamilton, when the provisions pf the Town Planning Amendment Act, 1929, with particular reference, to the preparation of a regional olanning •"scheme, would be explained.—Ref erred to special sub-committee gineeryy-.. ——