Huntly Town Board

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 31, 28 February 1913, Page 3

Huntly Town Board

The usual monthly nutating of the Huntly Town Board was I trsday, Messrs J.P. Bailey, .1. P. (chairman , j 1,. B. Harris jititr., R. Greonwell. iT. Horwood, J. Elliot, and the Clerk (Mr F. Harris). The minutes of the previous j m-'ting were road and confirmed. The question of the approaches j to the bridge forme 1 the subject of gc irrespomlence with the Public Work s Department. The intention of the Department is now to raise the road approach in order tha' ron 1 teaffi • might get on to tlic railway line, in-4"ad of forming a 'subway under the railway as originally intended. To tliis the Board demurred and was unanimously of opinion that as a subway would lie m ire convenient and conper, ev . lean; should be employed to prevent the schema of the Department from being given effect to. Ihe B su'd endorsed the action ofthecl'i'k who, on hearing that th" Rill way Department intended to erect a weiglt-bridge n sir the level cr issing at Glasgow i'ou i, paint 'd out th it congestion at this place would he iucreaio 1 to a dangerous extent, and suggested that an tther sit? lie cho-en. The engineer con- ■ ! "'S'hri ige two chains further north, and t ' instal an automatic and self-registering machine which would obviate any necessity for the stop; ,ge of waggons for w ughing purposes near the B■" "s deetdin; to j tin the Municipal Association of New 7, iland. the B Jard, on tha suggestion of the District Health Officer, agreed to increase its 'subscriptOn to the Health Department from £5 to £lO per annum. The clerk of the Raglan Town Board stat ed that they had asked the Premier and the Minister for Public Works to pay their pro-mi-ed visit to the district during the present parliamentary recess, and asked the Board to cooperate in tliis direction. It was resolved to do so. A letter re the Tainaki route for the proposed WaileinataManu kau canal was received. The Board resolved to blind with screenings that part of the (treat South Road immediately j south of the cemetery. Accounts totalling £147 Is on the general, and £8 8s 4d on the loan, accounts were passed for payment.