COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16856, 9 June 1920, Page 5

COUNTY COUNCILS.

ft MALV33RN. At tiro monthly meeting of ths Malvern County Council, there were present —Crs. Knight (chairman), Reid, Cullen, McMillan, and Judd. The noiica of motion given, at laat meeting to strike a rate of 5-llxliii tho Courtenay and Sh'suficld ridings, and id in the Homcbu.sk riding, was confirmed. Correspojidenca was read fro:n tins Bay of Islands County Council \irgir»2 tho amendment of the Hating Act to giro- local bodies power to rato Maori lands. Tlio resolution was endorsed. • Tho Stratford Borough Council wroto asking for support in their endeavour to make , tho Saturday half-holiday uniform througiiJ out the Dominion. Received. Tho Kew Zealand Farmers' Union wrote advocating' training soldiers on farms under the subsidised wages scheme. Tho Canterbury Progress League wrote giving dates of tho annual meeting, and a. conferenco on the question of tho tunnc-I road Mid tho canal scheme. Tho chairman and Cr. Judd were appointed to represent the Council at both meetings. The Waddington School Committee applied for "go slow" noticcs to bo erected in the ■vicinity of the school on account of the high speed maintained by through motorists. Tlio mutter was sympathetically considered. The combined sports clubs of Durfield outlined' a schemo to cr«ct a pavilion in I lie Darfieid Domain, and requested a conference to pro into details. Tho -Domuin Com- . Hiittee (Crs. Knight and Eeid) agreed to meet tho clubs' delegates at nil early date. As four very bad offenders had taken no steps to clear gorse after due notioo had been {riven, it was resolved to take action against them at the next sittings of the Magistrate s Comt at Darfieid. Cr. Culle)i gar« notice of mo' iop, fo» nest mooting:, to consider the advisability of placing teams in various p&rt3 of the county. The Valuation Department asked for the • name of a person who would act on behalf of the Council r<* ?■ member cf tho Assessment Court, to sit at Darfieid c.v .Tnr.o 10th. It wn rAsolved to ask Mr D. Muiliclland to accept the position. OXTOKD. I At the monthly meeting of lbs Osford I County Council thero wero pres?nt—Cis E- I P. Henderson (c!iaircna.n),~ D. A. ; Banter, J. McOrath, T. Pov.-ell, E. W. Meyer, J and H. F. I/uors. The surveyor ro2>orted that the manuka on •T. Budge's" ro:id had been grubbed. Tho I work on the main drain had been held up owing to the weather, but two aprons had been completed. The Bennetts road. Depotroad, and Main Hoad East had been patched. It ws« decided to call for applications for tho nosition of caretaker for the Coopers Creek and Gsimman's Creek water races. It was decided to hp.vei the plantations of pinna insignus at West Oxford and at tno Council Yards, sawn into timber. It was agrctd to secure anotr.er ter.m, and start to shingle Ashley (Jorge road, also in call for tenders for shingling parts 01 South Eyro road, Domain road, and .Brown's Rock road. ... ~ Mr I?. F. Henderson was appointed die Council's representative to the Progress League. , . , , It was decided to h?."c tho "ninsle scooped out of the drain at Cooper's Hof.er~<?. It was .-.greed to ha-v> Ilarmsin 3 roac. graded if a team could be secured. A complaint was received about duclts geese in the water-races, mid :t was <Unici _ 'd that the watcr-rr.ee by-lava should t>e cndecided tV <r:r:jort tbo Hawera. J County Council's rosolulio!: tne uiuy on j | children's footwear to remc.ee-. j