OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3262, 19 February 1931, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING.

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. (Our Resident Representative.) The Otorohanga County Council met on Tuesday. Present, Crs F. Potts (chairman), Bluck, Kay, Thomson, Irvine, Bowyer and Crowley. The proclamation legalising the Awatane Road has been issued, and the loan poll will be taken at an early date. The coming into operation of scheme 5 of the Unemployment Board, has to a large extent overshadowed the ordinary work of the engineer’s department. At present twenty men are employed under the scheme while there is a prospect of the number being increased. The scheme has been in operation for one week so far, and the men have all been employed adjacent to Otorohanga. 5 The metalling of the Rangiatea school contract is nearing completion. The metalling of the Pekanui Road has been completed. The Te Kawa swamp bridge is still held up pending arrival of piles. The Ngaroma Road metalling is proceeding satisfactorily, as also is Loop Road metalling. Oamaru and McKenzie bridges, contract 2, has received a setback through the Highways Board withholding authority for expenditure of the Board’s contribution of £SOO.

The following tenders for metalling contracts were accepted: Pekanui (grant £3 for £1), H. Boggist and Jackson, £536 11s; Ngaroma (grant £3 for £1), T. Barker, £220 3s; Gallagher’s Road (grant £2 for £1), J. C. Peterson, £268 19s. The Local Government Loans Board authorised the Council to use the unexpended balance, £l7O Is Bd, of the Ngahape Special Loan, 1927, £I4OO, for forming, culverting and metalling part of Gallagher’s Road, westwards from Ngahape Road. Though four out of the five ridings are in debit, the Council still has a credit balance of £426. It was decided to donate £25 towards the funds for the relief of the sufferers in the Hawke’s Bay earthquake disaster. Regarding an application from settlers of Te Rau-a-Moa riding for reduction in the angles of the main Kawhia-Te Kawa highway, the engineer stated that this should be referred to the Main Highways Board, as the road was under their jurisdiction.

An application from, R. J. Parker, of Ngaroma, to fix the estimated cost of reinstating damage likely to occcur to roads, over which he proposed to cart timber, was fully considered. The timber is to be carted from Simcock’s bush at Te Kawa, making use of the Mangawhera, Ngaroma, Wharepuhunga main highway and Te KawaKawhia main highways.—Permission was granted to cart 1000 feet loads up to April 30th, 1931, upon the receipt of a fidelity deposit of £lO. It was agreed to offer Mr Cleland at the rate of £25 per acre, for threequarters of an acre, taken under the Public Works Act, for a shingle reserve near the Waipa river bridge, on the Te Kawa-Kawhia main highway. The road will be closed for six days during the, erection of a new bridge on the Te Kawa-Kawhia swamp Road.

S.M. COURT. At the sitting of the S.M. Court, yesterday the following civil cases were disposed of:— W. B. McAdam, Ltd., v. J. R. Hayes, claim £77 2s lOd, costs £4 18s 6d. Otorohanga * County Council v. J. L. Cowern, claim £27 18s 3d, costs £4 11s 6d. A. A. Smith v. C. J. Phillips, claim £4 17s 3d, costs 26s 6d. Otorohanga Town Board v. G. Richard Ormsby, claim £4 3s, costs Bs. Otorohanga County Council v. Thomas George, claim £2l, costs 30s. Otorohanga Town Board v. Arthur Allan, allowing cows to wander within the town boundary.—To pay costs. William E. Nicholson, Traffic Inspector, proceeded against Thomas B. Mathieson for excessive speeding in a motor lorry on the main highway near Te Kawa.—Fined £5, and costs £1 11s.

Te Ruhi Kaahu, of Otorohanga, was charged with failing to keep her road frontages free of gorse, and other noxious weeds.—Adjourned to March 18th to enable work to be completed. W. McKibbin v. William Barton (rehearing of judgment summons), claim £l7 19s 3d; ordered to pay £2 per month, in default 16 days in prison. In a large number of similar cases no orders for payment were made. W. B. McAdam, Ltd., vl A E. Wilson-Smith, claim £l4 7s 2d, for repairs, etc., to Mrs Wilson-Smith’s Reo motor lorry. This case occupied several hours in examination of the principals.—Judgment for the full amount of claim and costs.

R. V. G. Garrett v..A. E. WilsonSmith. This was an involved claim, and counter claim, on accounts. A settlement was arrived at by entering judgment against the plaintiff for £lO. . Police v. Laurence W. Pickett. This was a matter in respect of which a fine was inflicted on Pickett, and his taxi driver’s license cancelled for three months, for negligent driving. The case came before the court at the December sitting, at Otorohanga, and a plea of guilty was entered. Mr Mossman asked for a re-hearing as tax-driving was defendant’s sole means of earning a livelihood for himself and three children. The police hacf no objection to a re-hearing. Defendant had been driving cars for some seventeen years.—His Worship ordered that Pickett be returned his license.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. At yesterday’s sheep fair low ted at about l£d per lb on the hooks, prices ruled. Fat sheep were quitwhile store sheep and lambs' were sold at about 75 per cent less than a year ago. The Otorohanga A. and P. Association have already received heavy entries for their forthcoming show, and it is expected that a fresh record will be established in this respect. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Otorohanga County Council, Cr W. J. Bowyer (Honikiwi) moved that all salaries be reduced 10 per cent, includ-

ing Crs and the chairman’s allowances, but not the two typists in the office.—The motion lapsed for want of a seconder. . The local Jersey breeder, Mr F. 0. R. Phillips, secured first prize for a yearling heifer at the Franklin Show, third in the two-year-olds, and fourth in the junior yearling heifer class. A Meadowland yearling bull was placed third in his class in a large field. At Mid-day on Monday a Pontiac car, owned and driven by Mr S. C. Clair, of Gisborne, came into contact with a Ford coupe on the Te Kuiti Road, damaging both vehicles. The Board of Education has appointed Mrs Nelson sewing mistress at the Te Raumauku School., The erection of a dental clinic at Otorohanga School has also been approved and the Department has applied for a subsidy on the funds now in hand.