COUNTY COUNCILS

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18229, 13 November 1924, Page 13

COUNTY COUNCILS

EOWAJ. ' Tile Kowai County Council Diet .on Monday. Present: Crs. ■ J. ,D. VfyHje (chairman). T. Betallick,' J. H. ■James, J. Fleming, J. Doudo, and I- F. 1 Croft. The chairman reported that -he ■ had attended a. conference held in Hangiora io ceaeider the purchase of mia/shinery-for. road- : making. The result of the- conference was that delegates from the Hangiora'and 3£aiapoi Borough Councils were to wait upon the next meeting of the Highway Board. The clerk was instructed to obtain, a quotatiou for a supply of cartridges, ' ; The tender of T.'H. Fraser for supplying ! dog collars for 1933 was accepted. . H. R. 'Shearman' wrote that a, • willow treo. | growing in the Kowai riverbed was diverfcing the water on to his land. Cr. James j'. was appointed to deal with the matter. • The Public Worlii Department wrote' that the amount of : Government 6ub3idy for : building bridges over Tobin's ford and.Gray'# .road was available-. ■ ; ', ' Tenders for painting, two bridges- over the ' Kowai river at Leithfield arid Balcairn were 'received and tha-i of. P. Strecter at £sl was' accepted. • The clerk was instructed, to communicate with the Railway Department with , a view, to obtaining-a' largerwater-way .at'tho railway. crossing at Greeney's ioa3. _ ;