OTOROHANGA NEWS
TOPICS OF THE HOUR. COUNTY COUNCIL MEETS. (Our Resident Representative.) The monthly meeting of the county council was held on Tuesday. Several matters arising out of the engineer's report were dealt with in committee. <*■
Kepairs have been completed to the Te Tahi stream bridge on the Piron-gia-Kawhia main highway which are calculated to protect the structure for the next 20 years. The same applies to the bridge over the Mangamahoe stream, on the Otorohanga-Pirongia road. The councillors for Mangaorongo riding expressed the opinion that better results would be obtained by placing that portion of the riding eastyard of the main highway, under a separate foreman and providing him with one assistant.
Regarding the establishment of camps, under the Department of Labour, the engineer reported that no progress had been made and that there is little prospects of any such camps being established in the county —outside the camps being conducted under the Public Works Department.
The position of relief workers under scheme 4A and scheme 5 is not as satisfactory as might be desired. There is a tendency on the part of the local unemployment committee to place 4A men on to No. 5 scheme. The 4A scheme is found to be the most economical for the Government, and efforts have been made to induce farmers to engage single men under'4A. Under the recent obstructive methods of the executive it is impossible to advise farmers in the matter of 4A men.
It was agreed to provide one-third of the cost of manures required for' local relief workers' gardens up to a ton. i A deputation from the iocal unemployment committee, waited on the council regarding assistance required, through relief labour in combating the noxious weeds menace, and asking for the whole-hearted co-operation of the council. Ragwort was a more dangerous weed than many people supposed. Cr Simms moved that a committee be set up, consisting of Crs Potts, Bluck, Bowyer and Simms, to assist the local unemployment committee. A deputation from the local relief committee waited on the council re establishing gardens by the unemployed. At the present time there were between 40 and 50 men requiring seeds and manures, especially potato and kumera seeds. The chairman expressed sympathy with the idea, and promised the support of his council. Cr Bowyer introduced a deputation from Honikiwi, suggesting that a bylaw should be passed to stop the overlapping of cream carriers. In one instance, a carrier took a heavy lorry four times weekly along one road to pick up a single can of cream. The chairman stated that many counties had discussed this question during the past two years. It was a hard matter to prohibit'any particular carriers from using the roads. Inquiries would be made. The financial position of the various ridings, on August 9th, is:— Honikiwi, cr., £Bl 4s lOd; Mangaorongo dr., £251 6s 4d; Te Raumauku, dr., £72 19s 8d; Waipa, dr., £23 8s Id; Wharepapa, cr., £617 Is lOd. So far no subsidy on general rates collected for last year has come to hand. . It was decided to write to the Main Highways Board, pointing out the effect on road maintenance, of the activities of the Transport Board. Soon after the board was created it increased the' load on a fourth-class road from 4 tons to 41 tons. Then it increased the speed from 191 miles per hour to 25 miles, and now regulations have been issued permitting 6 tons on a six-wheeled lorry. All these concessions add to maintenance costs, but a more serious consideration is that many bridges in the county are not equal to carrying a load of six tons, even if distributed, over three axles.
The Otorohanga County levy for the Waikato Hospital Board is £1338 13s 10d - • , r The engagement is announced ot Mavis Eve.' the elder daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Perham, Claudeianris, and Bernard, younger son of Mr and Mrs L. F. Scown, of Mangaorongo Road, Otorohanga. The local branch of the Women's Division has again donated £5 to the community chest. An interesting and profusely illustrated lecture was delivered to a good audience here last night by the Rev. A. C. Whitelaw. of Te Awamutu. The subject was "With Christ in Palestine and the Punjab."
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3215, 11 August 1932, Page 6
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