MAkARA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1413, 13 April 1912, Page 12

MAkARA COUNTY COUNCIL.

THE GORGE ROAD, The monthly meeting of tho Makara County Council yesterday was attended bv Councillors J. H. liaggerty (chairman), V. T. Moore, A. J. Taylor, T. H. Eastwood, H. J. Monaghan, and G. Monk. Mr. \Ym. Cook waited upon the council lo ask that tho road through his property at North Makara should be fenced. He slated that the road was made many years ago, and tho local authority which made it promised to havo it fenced, but it had never been done. Tho matter was deferred till next meeting, when tho council will look to Mr. Cook to produce evidence a.s lo any agreement or arrangement made by any local authority in regard to this road. Mr. Mace, of tho firm of Mace and Nicholson, attended, to make a suggestion touching the improvement of the Ngahauranga Gorge Road. Tho council had decided at a previous meeting to divert thu stream from a position of its present bed in the Gorge by constructing a tunnel, five or six chaiiis long, with a view to widening the road. Mr. Mace thought this should bo done higher up Uio Gorgo than tho place determined upon by the council, and ho contended that if his scheme was adopted, a shorter tunnel would suffice, the work would be cheaper, and more land would be reclaimed. p Tli<» council decided to meet Mr. Mace in the locality next Wednesday, and inspect the ground. On the snino day the council will inspect bridges over the stream nt Newlands, in order to decide as to the feasibility of a scheme for diverting the stream, and thus making bridges unnecessary.

The council resolved to increaso the wages of the roadmen bv fid. a day from May 1.