BOARD AND COUNCIL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4425, 9 June 1922, Page 2

BOARD AND COUNCIL.

ADJUSTMENTS DISCUSSED. ADMINISTRATION DIFFICULTY. The suggested adjustments between the Turua Tbwn Board and the. Hauraki Plains County Council were discussed at the Town Board’s meeting on Wednesday evening. Mr. J. Bennett (chairman) said that the suggested agreement with the County Council was considered to bo acceptable with the exception of the £75 to be given to the Cpuncll for, administration.. Mr. Mules thought something should be done to the roads before the Board takes control of them. ' The clerk said the Board had power to collect £145 from the County general rate, and had to pay £75 of that back to the Council for a share of the administration. He did not think it quite right .that the administration by the Council should cost more than what it would cost to maintain the roads. Mr. Mules-thought it .was not at all acceptable. The chairman said the County Council had not spent £lO on the roads since Ito existence. It had spent money, but had wasted it Mr. Davies maintained that the Council should take into consideration the state of the Plakp Road anil accept £5O for administration. Mr. Whimp’s opinion was that the Council had treated the Board very fairly, excepting the request for £75 for administration charges. To refuse that portion was to refuse the whale df the adjustments. It was suggested that the money i.o be .handed to the Cpuncll for administration be less than £75; Mr Olsen suggested offering £4O for the first two years. Mr. Whlmp suggested offering a third of the rates collected. Mr. Green said he had spoken to Mr. Walton (county clerk) that day, and he thought the Council would not accept any less than £75 for administration. On the motion of Messrs Olsen ami Mules at was decided to send a deputation to the County' Council to further discuss the suggested adjustments, with full power tp act. The ch airman and Messrs. Ansford and Olsen were deputed to form the deputation. In connection with the adjustments the following figures are of interest. The money to be paid by the Town Board to the County Council amounts to £379 .3s 3d, and includes the share of the Turua riding balance, £363 13s 6d, share of the Turua riding liabilities £1 Ils 2d, and a share of the general liabilities £l3 18s 7d. The money to be paid by the County Council to the Town Board is £ll9 0s ‘4d, which includes a share of the County assets. The balance payable by the . Turua . Town Board to the County Council is £260 2s lid.