MAURICEVILLE COUNTY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11578, 29 January 1913, Page 7

MAURICEVILLE COUNTY.

The usual monthly mooting of the Maurieeville County Council was held on Saturday, the 2f>th inst. I'resent,—Crs J. K. Perry (chairman), C. Seymour, ami L. P. Larson. Apologies for alienee were f'orv.ardeil liy Crs Jackson and l^igg. The of Crown Lands forwarded i-chnluli y and invited proposals for expenditure of accrued thirds. The Masterton County Council applied for a contribution equal to onehalf of the sum expended on the (ilen-donald-Wairere road in excess of the Government ,nrant. —Owing to ho few Councillors being present, consideration of this matter was deferred. The Auckland Provincial Industrial Association forwarded a copy of a paper showing that an annual loss of £-,- -500,000 is entailed by the destruction of the native forest, and giving weighty reasons for a more careful conservation of the remaining bush, and a more adequate re-planting with foreign trees, which grow more rapidly than the native species. It was resolved to co-operate with the Patea County Council in its efforts to get the law bearing on the recovery of Native rates made more effective. Mr Kummer was given permission to put a culvert in Dreycr's Rock road. It was resolved that the 10 per cent, penalty be a-dded to rates unpaid at March* 10th. The Clerk was instructed to notify Parker and Co. that the road between the mill and the ford over the Maka-' kahi must be put in repair in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Attention was drawn to the Eketahuna Borough Council having laid water pipes along the centre of the Kaiparoro Road, and left the formation strewn with large boulders. Arrangements were made for resuming the metalling on Mangaoronga road. Accounts amounting to £404 T7s l<l were passed for payment.