PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 612, 15 September 1909, Page 5

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

;.;'' 'COST OP; ;gqEGE; BRIDGE. , v / c (By. TclcEraiih-SiJcciat Correspondent.) .' -.■'"..■', ;. ' ..■'.'.'".Palmerston, : September..'U.'. i .The.Kairanga County Council received , notice .to-day from ..the Minister, for Public Works that, 'as the Government has .now taken, in: hhhd the work ,0f... repairing', the' Maiawatu Gorge Koad, the;grant, of to the, couneil fdr.'tlie road had been, cancelled.. No regrets wore .expressed, ,by s members, , when the letter was read,, at: the: loss ..of the' control of; the -road... . •;■;. ' ... . ;At'a epecial meeting of .'the Borough' Council 'last night the balance-sheet for 'the past' finan-. cial year,; was.adopted. (The council then further: cohsidewd" the by-laws, those 'relating' to : explosives being, first dealt with. Superinten-dent'-.Wiirner was. present, and made various' suggestions.. ~Tho sanitary by-laws-were also, considered, , ', a• (deputation of plumbers ileing'.' .-present.-.. Thismatter was adjourned for a fortnight. "•■ •■' ■''.•■-■,..'■'.'.."■■. ; '. : . ,; .•'• ,- '- ■'.' ':In old.,;man .named' George, Ramsay v Taylqv aged.: about'; sixty, years';' was ; !found' dead : tlii'g; morning, in;a Streeti near; .the Tifatu ■ Sawmilling' Ppmpany's.;premises/ 5 iHe^wasiquite , ' well wheri-.,seen 'a'y.9 o'clock -thisi .morning by,' a friend, ; who shared his• whare, .Jbntj at 11 o'clock, he was found on the floor, .and a'doctor being called in fonn'd life extinct. 'Deceased 'MA .been and; on, jfor period.''. He,'was snid to have. ■ been. once" in., good' circumjtan'ces in Ohmaru; where'\he leaves; a grown : up.'..family... An'linquest iwflj be. .held;,to-morrow. ,;.'. ■;,. i : . ■..:.:. •'. Details; presented at.the meeting of the Kairanga County Council to r day showed.that the ■■ actual. coet ■of.'.thc- Gorge Bridge •■\va3.jiS2o,2(o 35. ; 2d..,.:TKis sum wns,-however,,reduced by a £ill'il9si!- 6d.-.fine-for;non-cotripletioh; of : the work V by' contract ■ time; making • the real-cost »E19,858,35.;5d. .To.this.total the Oroua ! County Council .contributed.; £3UQ; .Government. suljsirjy, Woodville: County .Council,- £1671' 16s. 4d.j Pahiatua .County Council; JEB3S 18s. 2d.;Kairanga ) County;Council,:.^B3s4Bs. 2d;j Woodville Borougli Council, >£1258 17s. 3d;; Piilmerston Borough: Council, JJB3S 18s. 2d.; Feilding, .£-417 19s. Id. . The contfact prico for (;he work' was 'JE18,853;'. supervision, ,£Bl6)' advertising, ,M 5; air-lock;:repairs, .£sl; travelling espfnses,, £55, -Together with other '.sun-dry-items, these amounts brought thi cost' up to: : <ei9,S>l9 18s. -i£, to which mnst be added j£35U 4s. 10d. extras allowed by the engineer-in additional lengths of cylinders, the whole making; the actual cost, as 6tated, 3s. 2d., ; '