PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19453, 18 December 1934, Page 11

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

DECEMBER MEETING HELD.

RAGWORT CONTROL EXPENSES. Mr W. C. Kennedy presided at the December meeting of the Plako County Council, when Messrs J. M. Stewart, W. F. Starke, W, H. Emett, W. McLean, W. R. Lowry, D. Johnson and J. Hanks were also present. ... A letter was read from the Matamata County Council stating the expenses In connection with the introduction of the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, 4 934, amounted to £55 3s 1 Id, the Piako Council's share or the cost being £2 15s 2d. The district, engineer or the Public Works Department wrote stating that Cabinet had approved the roadlng work at Hoe-o-Talnui to give access to Crown lands. The cost would be £9OO, of, which the Unemployment Board's amount would be £252, and that or the Piako County £319. Loans Conversion. A communication was received from the Treasury drawing attention to the recent legislation relative to loans conversion, and suggesting the levying, or a security rate on a differential basis over the various legal subdivisions, Tho Unemployment Board notlllod that it lmd been decided to grant Christinas relief equal to one week’s relief pay. Tho tender of Mr XV. J. Clare, at £678 4s for erection or part material of a new Shaftesbury bridge was accepted. Engineer’s Report. The engineer reported that in the past month 4 250 cubic yards of metal had been put down for maintenance. Messrs Goosman and Co. had llnlslicd a further seven miles of bitumen work on. tie TatipoWalton main highway, No, 1 Road anti Tahuna-Oliinewat main highway. Plans for the Walorongomal Bridge (Wa|toa River) had been adjusted and approved. Messrs G. Gilchrist and A. F. Faulkner, for the Glaxo Manufacturing Company, waited on the council relative lo the company's lorry traillc on' the concrete road. Mr Gilchrist read Hie agreement entered Into with the council granting certain rights. The chairman contended the council was not responsible for any different position caused by recent legislation lit regard lo heavy traillc, but would be willing lo -act iu accordance with the agreement.