FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 662, 26 August 1921, Page 3

FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL.

» I MONTHLY MEETING. ✓ j | (Continued from Tuesday’s issue.) Access Read to. Ptikaoware. A petition signed by Mr J. M. ’Whitham and 41 others- requested the Council to find ways and means to form the road immediately adjoining the -Pukepware sail way station leading from the main Drury Road and the main Pukekohe Road. The Government having provided yards for live stock, the 'petitioners urged the Council to give the matter urgent attention. . ... Cr. Reid, who supported the peti-• lion, said there was a Government grant of £BSO, but. this was not now j available. There was a loading bank 1 there, but the people could not get ! iji. • j j It was decider? to forward a .copy I i,4’ the petition to the Disrict 141 n- | gir.eer and to make application for j the Government grant to be made | available free instead .of a for X > subsidy. 1' ' / IWsroer Petrticiis. At last meeting; of the Council a ; petition was received urging the I abolishment of the Mercer Town Di's- : 'Crier and the merging of same in the - County, it was reported that counter petitions had been received. In view of ihe fact.that neither petition was ! supported • by representatives they i vie re merely received and no action 1 taken. Mercer thus, retains its status as a. town district. i General. | The clerk and Cr. Reid were inj strueted to define a special rating area to raise a loan for the purpose! • f metalling Reid’s Road. : Oil the motion of Crs Mellsop and i Reid, it was decided to ask the Auck- , land Harbour Board to take over the i ontrol. of the wharves in the County. | The. engineer was authorised to ]>rei r.are an estimate of the cost of 'Retailing and formation of the I-'apa- ■ mtu-Hnppv Valley Road to connect I with the Bombay Road. \ it was decided to notify the pro-j j-erty owners on the Ramarama-Drury j creek to clear the creek of willows j , as soon as possible.