COUNTY COUNCILS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19179, 9 December 1927, Page 5

COUNTY COUNCILS.

EYRE. fhe monthly meeting of the Eyre County. Council was attended by Crs. R. 0. Dixon (in tho chair), C. E. Baynon, J. Cowens, H. E. Evans, J. FrUzell, —. Wright.

The tender of Mr M. Sklaark, of Rangiora, for dog collars was accepted at B}d, subject to additional holes being provided to those on sample collar. • The chairman's action in asking the Bon. Mr Buddo, M.P., to oppose any increase In the proportion of the petrol tax to be given to boroughs if it lessened the proportion to counties was approved. Mr D. Kennedy was refused permission to cart boulders from his property into a Council gravelpit. A donation of £lO was made to the Rangiora High School Farm Instruction Fund. . • Information was. received from the Audi-tor-General that as the lato chairman's travelling expenses had J>ecn merely nominal the objection to an honorarium having been paid to him in a financial year after he had vacated office would be withdrawn. To a request from the Kalapoi Technical School for a grant, information was. required as to what other local bodies were contributors. Owing to tho revised form of specification required by the Highways Board causing the estimotes for the road deviation leading to the Girder bridge from the Clarlcville end to be much increased, the Council decided that the old arrangement, whereby they paid all the cost exceeding the grant of £7OO from the Highways Board, would he unfair. it was decided to agree to pay their original estimated proportion of £4OO op to £I6OO, and thereafter 25 per cent, of any further Further, the Highways Board, who had declared the road a Government road, wore urged to get the roadside fenced at an early The Engineer submitted prices and designs of self-feeding gravel loading, elevating, and screening plants of American manufacture and of local design, but the whole matter was postponed indefinitely. . The clerk was instructed to proceed against the few persons whose last year's ratal and last quarter's electric light dues were unpaid. It was decided to continue the shingling of Dixon's road deviation without screening, and to keep the full width of 40 feet throughNo tender being received for tho purchase of the firewood in the reserve opposite the Claxby Reserve, on the South Byra road, it was decided to offer it loeally at 20s per eotd. Instructions were given to widan a corner of (he reserve approaching Dixon's road from Heyward'a road, and to endeavour to get Mr Martin to give a email corner at Eyreton for a similar ptfrpose. . Instructions wera given to tha Engineer to serve notice to all ratepayers whose fences were encroaching on the roads, and if the notices wera not complied with to report to tae Council. . . .. . The Engineer reported that the main highways in the Eyre Riding were in exertional order owing largely to the work dona by the four-blade maloulfler. and that several roads in the Eyre Elding had baeo much improved bv its use. Repair* had heen made by the River Trust team at Wolff'a ford.