WAIHEMO COUNTY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24411, 24 September 1940, Page 5

WAIHEMO COUNTY

MONTHLY COUNCIL MEETING The monthly meeting ot the Wainuiriu County Council was held yesterday at Palmerston, and was attended bv Crs !T S. Sheaf (chairman). D. Ross. W Mathe:;on, T A. Peddie, A Purvis. G. Ross. 0 J. Ireland, W. Ritchie and J. O'Connell The chairman extended n welcome to the newly-appointed county clerk ?,lr W A. Spence General Cr Purvis, speaking on the ranger's report, said that stray dogs were worrying sheep in the district. He had lost' six hoggets, and others were also complaining.—The matter was left In Ihe hands of Cr Purvis The report of the foreman. Mr J. Shaw on work done in the various ridings during the month was adopted A resolution confirming a proposal to raise a loan or £2OOO from the State Advances Department for the purpose ol making advances under the Rural Housinp Act, was adopted. Mr A. Thomas wrote asking tot the provision of access to his property in the Moeraki district, and the application was supported by the Public Works Department, which agreed to subsidise (he cost to the council.---The application was held over pending a further investigation of the matter. In response to an appeal from the president of the Counties' Association for funds for the alleviation of distress in Great Britain, the sum of £lO was granted Emergency Precautions The 'difficulties of organising scattered districts tn terms of the Kmeraeney Precautions Regulations were discussed at some length when the subject arose out of a letter from the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr W. E. Parry, who asked for a report on the organisation In the county It was admitted that nothing had been done up to date, and the chairman said the only suggestion he had to make was that each member of the council should be appointed to take charge of affairs in his own riding. Cr Ross said he thought the whole organisation should be undertaken by the Government. He believed that if the country were invaded the country districts would be filled up with refugees from the cities. It was agreed that the only scheme that could be adopted was that put forward by the chairman, and this was done, councillors remarking that, at this stage, the organisation of food supplies and transport could not be dealt with