MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 922, 15 September 1910, Page 6

MASTERTON NOTES.

•' ;■■':(Prom iOur! Bpeblal-Ooirespondent J :-[.x'.\ , V : :'i : v/':■''??-v : >i■•'•/Masteribn,'-Septemebr.ll.'^ ■'■;; ; , : At"tlie".monthly- meeting of.-.the'iMasteP" '••/ : ton-Gdunty.ConnciL'yesterdajvaffernboiua ;■;" letter';was'.-received; from".the> :\,. . General instating.' ;that, ■Rowing; :,toj;the. ex- -:•'; 'penso 'and labour.:involvcd,' : it:,would; riofcv ; be 'possible'-to;make-the>By-laws Billv'npVr..; . plyVtb-ycounties-.'Wliose ■: by-liws; had. :beea: .•. ''lu-1 s Weratibh^;:fb^ months';., r ob'untyvclerkr.pointe^;,out -..'; that 'if ''the : by-laws were;re-enacted,-',thev ; ; : costvto : ; the Crown' Law Officers- would be;; ■ ■ the-.old- by-lawsVwore.j.-submitted.:"-lit' was. ■ decided;■:to^agaittv;; . communicate v .'with,/ >Messrs.r! ; Hoggv,aM,, •;■, Buchanan;':M:P.'s,tvon^th'e;stibject^: ; :^i-,':^ r ■■■ -Estimates ;were submittedafcthe Cpuntyx': Council yesterday, of .'three nate. schemes for.. diverting the treacherbus i part'":';of: the'-lower-; Tauwu: 'Epad, ->-;. khowri-:as the "DeviL'si Blbow.".:;;It;wa9;'• ;deoide'd-itb.'iriyitei' tliej Castlepoint)County.; ; ■ Councilvto'i'-fiear;"a : ''portion of.'the,cbst.MJ;, itaking'-Jaii: '. '^'^i^W^^S huria .fori some • time'SiorXthe . amalgaina3:i:-. ■ tion of the:Alf redtbit-Kiding. of -the 'liav,f.-. tertpn 1 ':-' County,.;: with'' - ;the • "Eketahuna-js-, ;•' ■ County;-/ s': ! 'Tb.e"r Mastertoii : :ii Council?'; re-s;(, cently:'circulorisefl.'tH: ratepayersnn •; the.j:;., -Alfre4ton' : Kiding on'th'e, subje6t; v and;-the;, r v: result';of' ; theV: vbting: : was ; made > known/:.' ' to-day.' 'v : ; ,Mf ty-eight, Ratepayers .'■ ed'. themselves ::.! as''.opposed;. council 'decided to'-ex'tendrthe' time; for ceiving>balance':of only, twontjtf our.;in';nambe^ ■ .month;-'?:',; 1 .:::' : //' '■';<■■';U■■/:-' -'?••-'r^V V'.x(^J" :•' Inspector of/.'the. Agricultural', ■:;■: Department,,yesterday, advised the County:;.; Council*: 'that' Vthe i^room^ v ; ,whichr;-i5,... y ; 'scheduled:asa : noxious ;w.eed, ; is-spreading,.;.. on-the Waingawa 'and.Euamahunga.-laver;,?;. ' beds' - ;; The;; co'uiicil;:;whicli,''; some.; ; yfiar3 ;:: : : : ag'o;:took the.opihibn;oi::,Mr.; :tui'on the subjcct^decided;to.;inform : ;tha^: Department }, that.! itftis ;,not r -responsAto-. for thevdestructiohviof^'noxipus^eds^ia .*;; river-beds' ,unlessT such f weed? iimpedenha-^,., 'how-' of Iwater .-.'•. ■-'.: -J ■ ■:-:":' ■ .;' '.',:'i ; 'J *;..: ; ■>: v\-i: ; ! -v ■if