MATAMATA RECORD MONDAY, MAY 28, 1928. Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in matamata and Vicinity.

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 440, 28 May 1923, Page 2

MATAMATA RECORD MONDAY, MAY 28, 1928.

Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in matamata and Vicinity.

Th« 0»ly Paper Publish*, ja the M»t*mat» County. P.Q. Box 3S. 'l4ono 82.

■■ i v- v ' Monday, June 4, being a holiday, the Matamata Record will be pub- , Mehed on Tueaday, June 5. ' Wahuroa contemplates a water sup- • - ply. At Wednesday night’s meeting of the Matamata Town Board an informal inquiry was received from the northern suburb as to what the esttmated cost would be of a main from the Turanga-o-moana junction to Waharoa. The answer given was “ £lO a chain for a 4-inch main.” . •’ For the' position of engineer to the S Matamata County Council, 55 applies ;v: Alans were received by the Council y at its meeting on Wednesday. After disedssion, two of the applicants were , specially mentioned by councillors ns s probably being the most suitable, and the chairman (Cr. Anderson) and Cr C., A. Stopford were deputed to as. certain definitely by, personal visit i what these two applicants had accomplished'in the counties where they werfr now engag'd The Health Department has recently enacted regulations for the strict control of bating houses, am? has sent copies of these by circular to the local bodies with advice that if the latter would incorporate similar rules in their by-laws* they themselves could thus assume supervision ; of the eating-houses in their district , but in cases where this was not desired by the .local body,, the Departmeat, through its inspectors, would enfqgpe its own regulations. The Matamata Coupty Council decided to, leave-, the work to the Department as far a* the Matamata county was concorned. ■ \<Si: - .'•>-I'! A recommendation was, made by the , engineer, at the last meeting of th" Matamata Town Board, to the effect . that the toufW should supplement itf sewerige scheme by an . up-to-date and sanitary night-soil dump. TV* dump, costing about 1400, should con ,-t sist of a "concrete shed into part of which the soil would be deposited by ' , A patent proeesß.i It would then pro coed ipto a secoml chamber from whehee, diluted with wateV,to the requisite extent, it would pass into th° sewet 1 . This method, in other towns has reduced the cost of night-soil re- , moval by half, \ The previous , pqblishcd report on the attitude of the Matamata County Council towards the question of the elimination of its*county from the ; Thames Harbour Board’s area is re- : vealed by the Council’s minute on the matter to. be not quite correct. The minute reads:—“The question of mJ Mr. R. P. Mfejißfwlcy, the town engineer, at the Town BoArd meeting on night. Mr- W. E. Bena member of the Board, said h<* •ace knew of a drain pipe which had ;■? become completely blocked, and on investigations being made it was found that a willow root had penetrated between the joints of the pines and had (■own inside Ahem to a thickness of eight inches and a length of ,twenty . feet. Mr. Worley Jiald'his own professional experience corroborated this and as a precaution again«t the intrusion of registration and particularly that of willows he alwavs insisted on there being ‘four Inches of concrete right around th« Joints of / the pines in places where the danger t was likely to exist. The secretary of the Matamata War Memorial Committee, Mr. J. Mclntyre, advised the Matamata County « Council on Wednesday that a library and ladies’ rest room was the form , which the local War Memorial would take, and on behalf of the committee he ashed would the Council’s promised subsidy of MOO be still available. The chairman, Cr. J. W. Anderson, said tha money had been voted some two years ago! but the permission of the Minister for Internal Affairs waf, ■ ; essantial before tha Council could pay , the money. The clerk stated, that he had replied & /Mr. Mclntyre asking sriftSSS charges! oneper* cent as procuration fee, 10s for an impcctioh by the Council’s representative to decide, k properly rabbit-proof fences mode V; the of the rabbits j 1 ed into the ground for a distance burrow down with the instinct of mak- , inga wav under the r*>nfng, but Ws | the clerk ahoiiid asfcerte.in , X ■;|si F Hce- ofthe netting and ml vise I each councillor whey should ascertain Ida riding, the matter to be then considered further at the next meeting

A suggestion,, that the Puketutu bridge may need temporary strengthening to allow it to carry the traffic pending the erection of the now concrete structure was referred to the engineer at Wednesday’s meeting of the Matamata County Council by Cr. H. Rollett, who stated that he himself had not seen the bridge lately, but this suggestion had been made to him. Requests for Government grants and subsidies for road and bridge work should bo forwarded to the county engineer before June 15 next. An announcement to this effect was made by the Chairman, Cr. J. W. Anderson, at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Matamata County Council, lie asking that each councillor submit the list of grants and subsidies required in his riding to the engineer by that date. The chairman, Cr. J. W. Anderson, asked tlie members at Wednesday’s meeting of the Matamata County Council ho decide during the next month what general rate each would -equire in his riding for the current financial year, it being /necessary soon ♦0 take 1 steps to, strike tho rate. A suggestion by Cr. J. Pohlen that on each rate notice sent out this yeai the amount, of the hospital and charitable aid levy should he shown separately, so that each ratepayer would know exactly what he paid for this mu-pose, was referred to the clerk.

The question of composite traffic 'icenses for. areas which include parts of several local clodies’ districts isproving a wide one. The matter arose some time ago in regard to the Cambridge area, where besides the Cambridge Borough Council,- tho Matanata County iCouncil, and the Waipa County Council, several other smaller local bodies have jurisdiction, each body demanding a license fee from each individual carrier or carrying firm located in Cambridge and plying for hire throughout the adjoining areas. To remedy this state of affairs, about which tho carriers complained, a conference of the local bodies concerned Was held at Cambridge and a scale of composite fees there agreed to. However, the Waipa County Council later refused its ratification, whereupon Cr. S. H. Judd, of the Matamata County Council, waited on it to endeavour to come to a finality. The Waipa Council pointed out that The Waipa Council pointed out that for it the question of composite licenses applied not only to tho Cambridge area! but also to the areas round Hamilton and Te Awamutu, and in a letter to the Matamata County Council on Wednesday, suggested a conference at Hamilton during the Winter Show week of all the loral bodies concerned in anv of these three areps, with p view to a complete scheme .being -adopted. The Matamata County Council deckl'd! to replv that, if the Waipa Councjl convened such a conference it would be pleased to send a delegate. For Tnflueiya, take ~ , Woods’ Croat Peppermint Cure. rm***- ■ ‘ • ■