WAITAKARURU.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4477, 9 October 1922, Page 1

WAITAKARURU.

MEETING OF RATEPAYERS. COUNTY COUNCILLORS ATTEND. A meeting of Waitakaruru ratepayers held in the local hall on Wednesday evening, was attended, by reprei sentatives of the Hauraki Plains County Council. Mr W. Stretton was elected to the chair. The County Council was represented by Messrs J. C. Miller (chairman), C. W. Parfitt, C. W. Harris, T. McLoughlin (councillors), and J. Higgins (engineer). MIRANDA ROAD. The chairman maintained that the Council should spend £6O on’ the upper Miranda Road. Mr Harris said the money should be spent on that road. He assured them that the money would be spent on that road, probably this summer. He later said tlhiat the Council intended putting 600 cubic yards Of metal on the Miranda Road this summer. ADMINISTRATION EXPENSES. Mr Francis said it cost £1 to spend £1 on .the roads. It would be a good idea if the Council issued a balancesheet at the end of every financial year, Mr Harris said a balance-sheet was issued, and a ratepayer Wishing to ■have a copy could have one. Mr Francis said some county councils posted their balance-sheets to every ratepayer. Mr McLoughlin: Whoever told you it cost £1 to spend £1 must have been close to a “pub.” STREAM ROAD GRANT. The chairman asked if the grant for Stream Road had been lifted. Mr Harris said the financial stringency came and the Government cancelled all grants. The Council had again applied for the grant, and if

the money was available it would be spent. The Council had spent money out of rates on that road this year. DRAINS. Mr Cummins asked what w,as the Council doing to keep the road drains open. Mr Harris said the Council was as?g all it could.' It would consider striking a small rate to maintain the road drains. Where title ratepayers were prepared to help themselves the Council would help also. , Mr Cummins : But we pay a drainage rate already. Mr McLoughlin said it was not the Council’s duty to consider the drains. Then followed a lengthy discussion regarding a proposed drain, to which one man had refused to pay a portion of the cost. The meeting closed at 10.45 p.m. with votes of thanks to the county councillors and to the chair.