OHINEMURI COUNTY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5451, 22 July 1929, Page 4

OHINEMURI COUNTY.

WAIHI RIDING NEEDS.

CHAIRMAN MEETS SETTLERS.

In the Miners’ Union reading room at Waihi last week the chairman of the Ohinemuri County Council, Cr. C. Mason, and the acting-engineer, Mr L. E. Shaw, met some 50 settlers whose farms are situated within the Waihi riding. Under the chairmanship of Cr. G. Hoye various matters relative to the interests of the riding were gone into.

The grading and metalling of roads was discussed at length in an endeavour to arrive at some means to have the roads metalled as soon as possible. The raising of a special rate was proposed, but was not gone on with when it was explained that 50 per cent, would go into the council’s general account, in keeping with practice. It was finally decided to make a special rate by poll over the whole of the riding sufficient to metal the most important roads, and also to liquidate the special rates already levied on parts of the riding. The next day the chairman and acting engineer interviewed Mr H. W. Hopkins, the superintendent, and some of the officials of the Waihi mine relative to a future supply of from there. All the tips were inspected, with the object of getting the most suitable one to put in a cr sh.ng plant. In. the event of the proposed loan being raised it would be necessary to have the crusher so that v.vrk could be gone ahead with as <;.iiekly as possible, the present method of carting metal, large and small, indiscriminately, to the roads being too slow.

Eventually arrangements were made whereby the council secured sole rights to number 4 tip, with permission to cart from the other tips an amount that would not endanger the tramline on top ; a quantity that would work out at about 30 or 40 yards a day. Thus an agreement has been satisfactorily reached for the regular supply of the metal the council has been endeavouring to secure for a long time past.