MAKARA COUNTY COUNCI.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 3

MAKARA COUNTY COUNCI.

MONIULY MEETING.

rw,t. m p aft,y -, me6tiQ ? oi Mabfs L-ounty Council was TieW yestwdav, Members pftjseat Wi?re Councillors T, H Eastwood .{chairman), A. I Taylor, I'! Councillor Moore moved that the: offices of tho council he removed from Makara to }\.i lm R t<m, and that applications bo. Md for trio nositionof town clerk, suph eJofk to devoto the whole of Jus tuxie t-o tho affairs of tho MUIIC II , tho salary of tho c l ßr fc l e per amiojn. The motion was carried, the understanding being that the position Wag open for application, by tho present clerk as well as ottos. A special meeting of tho council is to bo held » fortnight hence to make tho appointment. Sanitary, inspectors, whiel had been discussed at a previous meeting, were ffiir h l oUg h t !ip a ttef from the H ollington Hospital diul Oharitable. J»ard. The board wqiiireii wlrere the grounds for 'certain alleged dissatisfaction with the work of tho health inspectors existed. Tho letter added that every request for disififectkws, fumigations, etc., had been attended to without delay.

It was decided to reply ix> the effect tnat as the present inspeotoxs have no power to prosecute person?, committing breaches of sanitary by-la.ws, the council could not see ftat their cefvicoFi were of value in this matter. •i Health Officer notified that he had inspected the drains at tho \\ ellington Meat iixuort Oompanj'B works, and did not Consider them likely to cause a nuisance, provided that due care was taken to prevent accumulations of solid matter in the ireek. He also understood that the company was considering certain, drainage alterations. In view of the wv.eluding paragraph of tho letter, it was dee-idecl to taivo no further action,

From the same officer aacsthei' con!.nmnication was rcoeived I'Ogarilinfs the council's letter the draining by a resident of offensive matter on the Itaroa Ikasl, Jolnisiiiiville. Tho health oflicm' referred tho eouiieil to Section 145 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

It was decided to give the resident alluded to seven days s liotico in which to abate the alleged nuisimcs, and failing compliance to take -court proceedings.

In order to meet the Huft Host] coffe apportiomne-iit, it was decided to levy ,i rato of Id. in tiio £ over all rateable. 1 property in tho county. It was, decides] to take oftb an accident insurance policy covering .the «mn* oil's employees, with tie. ''tjvorgoDl, London, and Globe? Accident Insurance Company.