COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17109, 2 April 1921, Page 11

COUNTY COUNCILS.

1 ASHBURTON. The monthly meeting of the Ashburton County Council was held yesterday. Present: Councillors C. lleid (chairman), W. Lochhea<*> O. Murdoch, H. C. B. Withell, F. Franipton,A. Mugaon, T. Blackley, H. Horsey, \V. 'i. Lill, W. G. Gallagher, and W. W. Goodwin. The chairman stated that tho credit balance at the bank -was £U6 15s 7d. A letter was read from tho State- torest Department, stating that on Mr Buchanan s return from Dunediri the Council would be notified of the date on which he 'would bo able to accompany members of the Council on a. visit of inspection of the Council a plantations. ,1-1 It was decided to again write to the * orestry Department, asking for an caTly inspection of the plantations and reserves, mid also asking whether {he Department could supply the" Council with suitable trees for tho variistricts, and at what cost. • A letter was road from the Ashburton Borough Council stating that it could not agree lo the request that the Ashburton Saleyards should be excluded from that portion of the Hampstcad Town Board District which is amalgamating with the Ashburton Borough area. _...■,-,,•,•, A letter was read from Dr. Telford, •Medical Officer of Health, agreeing to the proposed, sanitary area of the Allonton district and a site for'the disposal of nightsoii. The Minister of Internal Affairs wrote in respect to the merging of the Road Boai'd districts into the county tint action onlv could be taken under section 30 r.f the Counties Act, 1920, if the capital value of all rateable property in all the road districts in any county was less than two-fifths of the capital value oi all rateable property in that county, and was not applicable' in the case of each individual road district. A letter was read.from Mr L. Birks, Chief Electrical Engineer, stating that he ha<l examined the Bangitata Gorge, and was satisfied that there was a substantial amount of power available thcTO. but that it was too near Lake Coleridge to he suitable for development until Lake Coleridec itse.f 'was fully developed and overloaded.