MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2052, 8 November 1919, Page 2

MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Ma- . nawatu County Council the follow-j ing reports were adopted:— TRAMWAY MANAGER’S REPORT. The following were the chief items of traffic: Minerals 104 J tons, ure 79 tons, merchandise 2383 tons, jj timber 30,700 superficial feet, met a I / - 030 cubic yards. Pares amounted to £4 11s sd. A credit balance of £4(5 8s 4d is shown for the month’s workings. The boiler of locomotive Manawatn has come to hand, and the engine should bo in commission at an carlv date. ENGINEER’S REPORT. Awahou Riding.—l arranged during last mohfh to fill in the holes and weak places with crushed'metal along the Fox (on Beach road, and have rolled down the stone with the road roller. 1 have arranged with Mr C. Peiersen to earl metal"from the Lady's Mile to the Pox ton - Shannon road for the sums of.9s. per yard. Mr J. Burr has completed his contract for constructing a stop baiilc near the Shannon bridge. The balance of Ihe old slop bank wards the Shannon bridge should be made two feet higher and supported on the outside with a baiter of 2 to. I. We have protected several chains along the bank of .the Manawatn river opposite Mr Piggofi’s property with large maeroearpa trees attached to wire ropes, and we hope that this work will protect the willows till they get established.

Tramway. —The surfacemen are now employed repairing the 281 b. track and closing up the sleepers at the joints, as requested bv the Council. "f”

As requested, Cr. Barber and my- • self met the Councillors and Engineer of the llorowhenua County at the Shannon bridge for (he purpose of inspecting the erosion that has recently occurred, and is threatening the Shannon bridge. The bank has scoured away about the centre Of the land span, and it is necessary that some protection work should be done immediately to prevent further erosion, I would suggest that the bank under the land span, and for a distance of two chains up the river, be fascined with willow and anchored down with crete blocks, and Die balance of Dm bank right up to the old ferry (rack should be planted with willows. Accretion is now taking place a few chains above Hie bridge,* and in a very short lime the bridge would be protected with a Jive protection of willows.