MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 30 November 1907, Page 3

MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL

The ordinary meeting of the above .was -Ji.eld at Sandon on Wednesday.

The Tramway Manager reported : —Owing to the expenses being Ijeavy, there was,;% debit balance on the month of £ll 12s 2d. In the expenditure is one item of £2B 2s 6d for repairs to engiue ‘ 1 Weka. ’ ’ Both goods and passenger traffic was satisfactory, although not as good as the previous month. The fares amounted to £5 7s 2d. On 19th inst a start ; v;as made with the extra run on Tuesdays into Foxton. The earnings for the two runs to date have been £3 14= 3d and £9 7s sc!. A. time-table had been arranged for the carriage of pigs on the tramwajr.

The total receipts were: — Wharfage £l7 3s 2d, steamer £56 10s 6d, rail £l7 3s 4d, tram £l2O is gd. Expenses £l3l 13s 1 id, debit balance £l2 12s 2d. Merchandise carried was as follows : Grain, 49 tons ; minerals, 43 % tons; manure, tons ; merchandise, 107 tons ; pigs, two trucks; firewood, one truck; metal, 56 trucks; clay, nine trucljs ; timber, 47,300'feet; fares, -£5 2d. The Treasurer reported:

Bank balances : General Account, dr., £3202 5s gd; loan account, cr., os lid ; net dr. balance, 4s. rod. Riding accounts. Amounts available for expenditure : Sandon £ 197 4s gd, Mt. Stewart os sd, Waitohi 15s id, Rongotea £177 15s gd, Carnarvon 19s, Kawakavva £ y j 8s 2d, Whirokino Division £qo 9s 3d. Overexpended Awahou £3l 18s 4d. The overseer reported in reference to the Awahou riding that he had made arrangements to have 50 yards' of metal put on the worst places on the Whirokino road about the 28th of last month. The water was still running over the road, which was very soft in places. It is necessary to have about 300 yards of metal carted on to this road to put it in order. Tenders should be called for the January meeting.

Shannon Ferry.—As requested by the Council, I went to the the Ferry to make arrangements with the present ferryman to work the ferry for a period of twelve months, but found I had a difficult task to perform, as he (Mr Piggott) was indisposed at first to work the Ferry under any consideration. However, after a good deal of discussion on the matter, he decided to take it on under the old scale of charges, the ferryman to have all tolls, and the Ferry will not be worked after ten o’clock at night unless urgently needed. The Council is to keep up the approaches to Ferr> r . Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., wrote respecting the stop-bank which has been erected at the Moutoa Ferry, stating his firm had decided that, as the slightest flood in the Manawatu river overflows the Moutoa road at Burr’s corner, it was necessary .to reconstruct the bank which has been washed away, and consequently his firm had entered into an arrangement with Dr Wall, who now owns the property. The total cost of the work would be over £ 2OO. They proposed erecting the bank at the highest point up the river, at which a serious overflow occurs.— Held over.