OKOUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 57, 6 February 1884, Page 3

OKOUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

J . THlg ,lJ4T.. „';■'. ']][. "'I. . ■ Important Business. The Bridge at thb Lower Perry. Gounty Suspension likely to be Carried. :.■;■:■ .! (BY TELEGRAPH.) i '< ' to tlie Standard. J Feilbing, This Day. Tlie Orotia County Council iriett' at 11.30. Presents €srs Macartbur (chairmau), Linton, Sly,. l)ous;las, Engles, talker, JVlcßeth, and Skwman. T^e rocis of correspondence was"i*ead, which ■was very heavy, ,:uj*wards ; of. 50 letters: being received frpin yaripuH sources. It ia expected Jjhe n^eetiDg : wH i npjfc vise. to-night. . j: ;/ ; . 7i !; . i •/' ,v_ nn.-. A discussion Itook. place over the amount, of money to be allocated under the J^oads and Bridges Construction Ace. It is not yet decided whether the amonnfebe. used on the roadj; or divided |amongßt; the several ridings. Fitzherbert Councilors are urginsf theconstiibu'tion of the »Fitzhet*berfr Road East, a county road.--; ■ ' ;ti T ' Byidesire.of i : numbed ' bf settlors, R deputation' consisting- of i Messrs ©otter, JAVhibley, andMarsii; haVe'afriWd-fWwii fA.shurst to urge on tha Council to proiceed with the-biddgfe at the Lower lEerry. i'The^ will wait bu the Council after dinner. They were privately informed by the . Chairman, b|etore the ; Council niefe, that ilieir mission was almost useless, as the County Council could not .make, application to the I Government before the 30th and it was *xpected by that , time the ' Counties Act woula be suspeh'ded. The petition for the suspension is fully signed, and some 40 mdresi^nntui?es can 'be .procured 1 m Wellington if re^- ■ quired. • ; » : ■*'• -■ ■'•'■'■ ;-'• • '■'