BRUCE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 161, 10 August 1877, Page 6

BRUCE COUNTY COUNCIL.

The Bruce County Council met on Tuesday. Present : Messrs H. Clark (chairman), Murray, Landells, Petrie, Robertson, Smith, Duff, and Wayne. PAYMENT OF PUBLICANS' LICENSES. A letter was read from the Colonial Treasurer, stating that the payment to the County of Bruce was 7s Gd. The Chairman said he had asked the Clerk to write about the matter, because he thought that they should receive the licenses for public houses for year ending 1878. He held that the licenses that the Government received last year from licensing public houses from January up to June should be paid to the Council. They were supposed to have a right to the revenue from Ist January. Provincial appropriations lapsed from that time, so that he thought they were entitled to the licensing of public-houses for the six months. THE MATAU BRIDGE. The contractor for replanking the bridgo wrote for an extension of time, rendered necessary through the difficulty of procuring black pine timber. Mr Wayne thought a small fine, Bay ls, should be inflicted. The Chairman read the contract, wliich had not been signed, which provided for a penalty of L 3 for each week's delay. It was resolved that the contract should be signed without delay. MISCELLANEOUS. It wasresolved : That Mr Ingles's request for permission to burn whins on the roadside during the months of August and September, be granted, providing that he is willing to take all risk. That action be taken against Mr Chapman if he fail to remove the nuisanco caused by spreading gorse on the Main South road from his fences near Waihola. That the present pounds (at Kaitangata, Glenore, and Lovells Flat) bo legalised, and that consideration of the new ones be deferred till next meeting. That the request of the Waipori Road Board for L 25 towards improving the subdivisions of Waipori West, be granted. That parties coming to the smithy must pay toll. That the Balmoral division of the County boundary be altered to Tuapeka Creek. The Inspector's report was adopted, one of the Councillors suggesting that too much work should not be performed by day labour. The Treasurer's balance-sheet showed that the expenditure for the month ending July 30th was L 303 19 2d. The receipts included Ll6 18 <ld from the Government, and LlO4 8s 2d for the month's tolls. After paying the outstanding ac counts, the balance in the Bank would be L 140 1175. The report was adopted, ono of the Councillors remarking that they (( were in clover." TOKOMAIRIRO ROAD BOARD. A series of resolutions were received from the Tokomairiro Road Board, positively declining to spend the sum of LSO, which the County Council had voted to the improvement of a certain Road, because the Board did not recognise the Council's authority over the road line. The Board emphatically protested against the Council having suggested on what particular road the "subsidy should be expended, and also that the Council's division ofthe public money was unjust. The Council unanimously agreed that a road in the Glenledi district was absolutely necessary, and that it should be made. It was suggested that the Chairman should bring the matter under the notice of the Government, to have a Commission appointed to decide which body shot&d make the road. After a discussion the Chairman agreed to do so. j BYE-LAWS. The Council went into Committee -to consider the bye-laws.