COUNTY MATTERS

Chronicle (Levin), 9 December 1948, Page 8

COUNTY MATTERS

— • ■-•■'J'.'TJg ■ Ror^wkwa LftPffs MontMy Meeting The Deqeinbe.r meeting of the Horowhenua ;Qounty Council was held in" Levin yesterday. The chairInap, Mr. A. M. ^Gol^tthoun, presided. : Preseht Were 'Grs. J. -D. Aitchisoh, J. H. rP. Liggins, A. M. Atk-ins-, W. -Taylor, >E. R. W-inkler, -Et. K: Guy, L. F.. "Erown -and. R- W. Jenkins. /llso ^Messrs. -F. H. Hudspn (clerk) and 'W. R. FraSer (eng-ineer). A cpmrppnication from the Manawatu Catchment ;Boprd referred- to the Forests and Rural Fire Act, 1947, which was disc'ussed at Ipst pionth's meeting of the Qouncil. ;S,inde tlie Act was prirnari(iy" cppcerned with the protection of for'est property rather ,than the spppres^iop of fire, as such the pperalipn of it wps limited to the |i-i:e selsbri, .commented the -letter. In" tLis Fay the *Act difiered from the' purposes** pf the catchment bpard by-lpws, which were concernpd with the suppression of fire as a metljiod of farm management. It "was ci.dvious that it was possible to h.aye two apthorities issuing fireiighting permits. fn order to save ;any pPnlusioh, the board would enfieayo.ur to formulate a scheme of [admihistration which would place jthe counties, 'if they so desired, in ;the positiori of .being the sole issuIng authority. durihg the whole •year. ' The letter was received.

In a cireular addressed to all, [ local authorities, the district medi- j cal.officer of health, Dr. T.. C. Lonie, j reminded the county of the :impor- | tance .of routine inspections of j ^dwellings within its area in regard j fto .saniia.ry matters. Af-ter pointi'ng out that the Minister of Health, j Miss Howard, often received com- j plaints from md-ividuals which re- ■ yealed marked .but remeaial def ects •] )n the houses complalned of. Dr. j Lonie asked the council to make it j "possible for the sanitary inspector J 'to fiay.e adequate time to make a .j routine inspection of the dwelling ■ houses ,in i'ts area in order that he ! mifjh't bring forward any cases in -J which action would be necessary. j The communication was referred to ithe health inspector.

. F-urther comments on proposed | •improvement work at Waitarere | jBeach were received in a letter ] from the Waitarere Progressive J Society. It stated that apparentl-y 1 owih'& to the lapse of time since | the council's deputation visited the ! heaoh, there -was some misunder- j stauding. -It pointed out that the | foothpath asked for was in con- S juction with the main entrance to | the beach. The other f ootpath was | required because of the danger to | smalL children travelling from the | swings to the shops along Rua i A.^enue. The council had since 2 come to an agreement with the I society which he thought would | prove satisfactory, commented Mr. i Colquhoun. The should&rs of the | road would .be extended, he said. | Th,e letter was received. - j An application was received from 5 the C. and A. Odlin Timber and Hardware Company, Ltd., for a j permit to store motor spirits in an underground tank of about 500 gallons on the firm's property at the I .corner of the main north road and j the Manakau South road to scrve • •the logging operations at Manakau I Bush. -He had advised the company j •that it would have to make appli- . cation to the' Explosives Departpaent, said Mr. Hudson. The county could not handle such a request. A fur-ther step towards ^tie completion of the extension to Awahohonu Rpad, Otaki, which will serve as an exit from the Otaki racecourse, was seen ip the advice received from the distr-ict engineer of the Works pepartmen't", Mr. 'C. Langbem, to the effect that a subsidy of £300 on a £ foi\£ basis had be.en granted. "it only remains for us ^ to go ahead w.lth thp. work," commented \the ohalfmah^. Ari assuraiice that he wPuld re•move the gate from Ngatiawa Road extension as soon as work was heg-un on itwas received from /Mr! N. Best, of Reikorangi. In this ■regard, the comrnittee set up to go 'injo thp matter pf the -Potts' Road extension ;advised: that it had met Mr. H. F. Hall, who had said that t he -yvpuld remove the gate across the iane as sopn as the council was ready to go ahead with the work of metaMing the* extension. He was 5 •building an alternative entrance to - his wool shed. The State Advances Corporation - adyised that it was prepared to •gr-ant a renewal of the Waimeha - Township water-supply loan for a i fur-ther term. of 10 "years at an in- ■' -terest -rate of 34- per cent. It pointed • out -that the final aebenture of 1 &1-933 8s '7d fell hue for payment on > -May 12, 1949. . Following a sugges- ' «tipn from the cler-k that the loan -. should be renewed, the remainder of Ihe discussion on this matter was taken in comrnittee. Mr. Hud- ? son -was given authority to coml' -piete the negotiations. ; The copmcil's solicitors'wroue re.- ; gar4ing tfie order issued to a Wai- ; rneha -resident to remove an illegal ! .connection to the water supply. No ' reply had.heen received to a direct t -request that he advise whe.ther or ; np't He in'tended to discontinue the ; supply, said -the letter, which asked Lf it was intended to go ahead witn ! proceedings. it was decided that ; 'the soiicitprs be instructed to take any fur-ther action -necessary. A request was received from Mr. ; A. -J. Day, of Petone, to place a " tramcar 6n his section at Waikanae . Beach' for use as a toolshed and : store ro.om. . He would .be building ; toh the seption in about a year's ( time and assured the council. that the tramcar would npt be unsight- ! ly. P^bq^ng tljiis, Mr. Colquhoun ' said that f f .thfe "cotmcil once ap4 proved gudh" a 'suggfestlon it would be. difficult to stop. Permission was 4eclined«