WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1922, Page 1

WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24th

ANNUAL MEETING. (To sit i\t noon). I.—Election of County Chairman f'>r year.

ORDINARY MEETING. (To sit at 2 p.m.) I The Chairman to move hat the accounts presented for Aprd-May. 1022 as revised and recommended for payment hy the Finance Committee, amounting to £ he passed for payment.” . •’> The Chairman to move:— that the report of the* Treasurer on the proposed allocation of estimated revenue f„ r the current financial year be now considered and approved. f 3—The Chairman to move : ha - public notice he given of the intention of the Council to make and levy a general rate separately m each Ruin b of the County of 'Westland, of eig i. farthings in the £ on the capital value of nil rateable properly, m aecordaiuc with Sections 120 and 121 of the Coun - ties Act .1020: the said rate to he payable fourteen days after being struck. I —The Chairman to move:— mar the’list of works for Government grants as now before the Council he approved and scheduled for official acceptance s._The Chairman to move:— mat. the Council now consider the advisability of restricting the rate of speed for all loaded lorries to not exceed 12 miles per hour (the engines to be govern ed accordingly to the satisinetion of the Council’s officer), and the loading to not exceed 1.200 feet of timber; and that for the months of June. July, August. September and October, the montlilv charge for lorries plying the County roads be increased to UU per month; payable in adianee. Cr. Jeffries to move:— I hat a small vote he authorised for repairs to the approach os* of (Jillospie s Come ci> . cost not to exceed C2.” 7. —Cr. Duff to move: —‘‘That the ’Finance Committee report as to the allocation of the annual vote for pubu.libraries in the County, and the institution requested to state their hmincial position.”

SPECIAL MEETING. (To sit at 3 p.m.) 1. The Chairman to move:—“That the Council do now hy special order resolve to raise a loan of £3,200 at a. rate of interest not exceeding six per cent, for the purpose pf assisting to pay on the aiiteeednt liability of the Council ai existing on March 31st., 1922, as defined hy the Local Bodies’ Loans Ace. 1921 ; and that pursuant to the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913 a special rate to secure the aioresaid loan which is to have a, currency of eight years and to he repayable m sixteen half-yearly instalments be struck .over the whole County, and 1 o nniiuallv 'recurring as the security rate during the currency of the loan; the, •said special rate to be one-fifth of a penny in the £ on the capital rateable property within the County of Mesto The Chairman to move: —“That the’foregoing special order he confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the Cm oil to be bold at the County Chnmbcis at 3 p.m. on Tuesday 4th day of July. 1922.”