WAIROA COUNTY COUNCIL.-SPECIAL MEETING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3026, 8 March 1881, Page 3

WAIROA COUNTY COUNCIL.SPECIAL MEETING.

Saturday, March 5.

Present: Meesrs Bee, Carroll, Duff, Flint, Fraser, Gemmell, and Shaw (chairman). A quantity of outward and inward correspondence was then read. MARU MARU HOAO. Letters from Mr Horace Baker and Mr Lambert about the survey of this road, and also one from Messrs Wilson and Cotterill, on behalf of Mrs Carter, asking what steps the Council mean to take. After some discussion it was decided that a right of road half a chain wide should be taken from the main road to the Maru Maru ford. GATE AT FRASERTOWN. A petition from most of the Frasertown settlers, praying they might be allowed to erect a gate across the road near the old Union Hotel, was agreed to. MOHAKA FERRT. Mr Bee asked that his motion re Mohaka ferry be discussed in committee. —Carried. Mr Bee evidently had something to say he was afraid to say in public. ROAD TO OWHIO. At Mr Steele's request, the Council agreed to write to the Government for the third time, showing them what a large quantity of Crown land this road would give access to, and suggesting that a sum should be put on the estimates to make this road.

MANGAWHEHO BRIDGE. Letters having been received from the owners of adjacent sections consenting to a divergence of the road, it was decided to commence the erection of the bridge at once. STATUTES OF NEW ZEALAND. Letter from Dinwiddie and Co., offering to supply the whole of the statutes for £20, or 30s per single volume. It was agreed to purchase those for the years 1877 and 1879.. EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION. Mr J. W. Witty informed the Council by letter that he had some years ago spent the sura of £ll£ out of his own pocket, in making a drain thirty-three chains long at the side of a public road, and that as this drain was now of some use to the Council he requested the Council would reimburse him some portion of this amount. Decided, that, a 9 Mr Witty had made this drain before the Counties Act came into force, the Council had no power to grant his request. RATES. Mr O'Sbannassy offered to pay rates and expenses on sundry sections against which judgment had been obtained by the Council. Decided to obtain a legal opinion as to whether the Council could accept the offer from any but the bona fide owners. ROADS. Mr George Walker asked whether the united wisdom of the Council would permit them laying off the main road through the Nubaka ferry reserve, and then spend £20 on it. Decided that an application to the Chief Surveyor made to have the road survey from Nuhuka to Mania, and that until this be done no money be spent on it. SLAUGHTERING LICENSE. An application for one bj Mr George Stacey was not entertained. COMPENSATION. Mr John Hawkins applied for compensation for the Council not having fulfilled their contract with him in connection with the Mohaka ferry. I was shown that Mr Hhad already been well compensated, and it was decided that his letter be not received. WAIHUA FERRY, Mr John Hawkins offered a rent for the Waihua ferry, a service for which the Council is now paying a bonus. Decided not to interfere with existing arrangements which will expire on 30th June next. [Memo. —Good station this for a constable.] TOWGOIO LAGOON FERRT. Mr Haultain wrote saying that Tepene, the native ferryman would not continue the work for £5 per annum. Decided to ofler him £10 per annum. It appears the lagoon id very seldom open, and then only in very bad weather, when few people care about travelling. MAKAPUA BRIDGE. This bridge, which had only just been completed at a cost of £100, has been so much injured by the late floods as to be useless. Decided to pull it to pieces, and stack the timber in a safe place. COMMITTEE. The Council then went into committee, and after some little time announced that they bad decided to re-establish the Mohaka ferry. Notice of striking a shilling rate was given.