HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Otaki Mail, 16 July 1923, Page 3

HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

cu $ th MONTHLY MEETING. . j | Tht July meeting of tie Horowln nua County Council was held on Satu al day, the chairman, Cr. Monk, presidin ie over a full meeting. A lengthy corre: r, pendsMcc order paper was dealt witl ie of which the following- related to th Southern end of the County. ie T%e secretary of the Otaki Chambe a of Commerce (Mr. A. E. McDougall ir wrote: "At a meeting of the Otak d Chamber of Commerce on the 7th. inst h I was instructed to write to you e.\ k prossing the appreciation of the Cham ber at the expeditious manner in whicl '■• your Engineer (Mr. Anderson) carricc ii out the work of repairing the Otak - bridge and the consideration shown t< traffic whilst repairs were being car - ried out." ', The Chairman said it was very pleas- - ant to find this appreciation from sucl I a body. This had been a big job anc > the Engineer fully deserved the credit given for the prompt and efficient manner in which it had bean carried out. 1 Mrs. A. K. Champion, Otaki railway, . wrote asking the Council to find some ' other means of drawing storm watei off the Main Road, North Ohau, through j drain across the road at top of hill ad- ■ joining her property at Pukchou, which ! was being considerably damaged. — ; Referred to the Councillor for the riding for his consideration, Messrs Hair Bros., Jones, and London wrote asking when fht Council was going to do something to their road. They had paid rate* for the last three years and considered that they deserved more consideration than they were recoivhig. The Chair»»n said that tomothing should certainly he done. These men were r»turned soldiers and had paid their rates; when many othevs had not. Tkc Council would certainly see that the matter was attended to. On his suggestion the Matter was ruferrod to the Engineer and-hinyelf for attention. Mr. Kofet. Bovan, Manakau, wrote asking *vha.t was eauning the delay in granting h» applicatioa to connect his right-of-way with, the county road. It was very feard not having' legal access to this piece of land and still having to pay rates *uil ta>?es. H* also wanted to get on to it to make improvements. The Chairman explained that the County solicitors had this matter in hand, nn<\ the letter was referred to them for attention. flFormty BKgfinesr's Report. The County Engineer reported:— During' the period just ended the weather has Wn e.xaeptienally bail ami work had to be somewhat delayed. Si»ue of the road* hav* suffered a good deal awing to *o mu«h rain. In the Tokemaru riding the road* in the Southern end are in very fair repair but frem Makerua to the north boundary the main road has been badly ksoeked abeut owing to the hoa valuator traffic passing over same. Owing to the bad state of the read from the gravel pit at Shannon it was almost impossible to can metal 1 decided to slop work at the pit and take the lorry off the road until the weather settled. Tenders are iibw invited for the supply and delivery of metal for the roads in the northern part of this riding. It irmy intention to use Packakariki metal on tee Main road from the Mill gate at Maheraa to two mile* north of Makerua Station and the remainder of the roads will be metalled from the Tokomaru River. Another flood occurred in the Manawatu River on Friday, July 6th., and although considerable erosion took place on the western bank above the bridge on the Shannon-Foxton Road. I have to report practically no change on th» oastern bank. Winokino Riding: Most of the roads in this riding have received attention during the period; a number have received light maintenance and the mm have been employed in trimming and cleaning out water tables and replacing culverts, a fair number of which we're found to be in a very bad condition. A 12in. pipe culvert was put in on Arapaepa* Koad in front of Mr. Capper's property t« replace old Bin. one, «n«l a culvert was also put in On the rXiiukerifv Eoad where water-race iro.ssss Tamua Koad from Arapaepao Road to Gladstone Road. It is ii. a vnrv bad state, having been badly cut up by lorries carting timber from til? mili at. cud of Gladstone K&* J _. Some tlwe «£• I ~ tice xo the owners "of the mill to 'Save this road put in order, but up to the present no attempt hac been made to improve matters Th<? H'okio Beach Road is also bacuj cut up. but uirtil the weather improves. it - is ouite impossible to *o any heavy metal carting; a good deal of tho damage to this road is caused by the carting of firewood. . i He current year, metalling W vhis r»d- ---;-,„-' 4 S the- plant will not be avail- ' ?' . l '• , tliis ridinff for some '!»lc for work in il"-- i-"-' lu » iiSUletlmeandasitwdllbeneccsarv to commence metalling « tho near'future I would "commend b, , gia£ i,to use the second crusher. h.i £ t-hl m.»her has «o elevator rt wll.ie ]lscC ssaryto consider the advisabuty of procuring a second .levator, and aUo Ae power for driving same. I aw... herewith price for elector. Re Tirs Tiro Road hi£h-pres=uTe water supßv: Cou»«il>« Broadbel , Catlev and myself visited and inspected th» locality last week and if the parties are agreeable to the boundaries of rifting ** wn 0U the attached sket.h. I see no reason why this prop*«ett .cheme could not be gone on with whoever &• ne«sstf* formaline* have- been arranged. ' Otaki riding As I «¥«t to have the pliv.it in this ndin ? vary shortly I have not done a great deal of *<>»*»- anee work here. The crusher will h, <** up in the gravel pit of. *he TVaiKawa >,cr of boulder iaccßT. paddocks. but for aar--ery e c a

deliver cheapei I would recommend that this offer be accepted. Water tables on Eahui, Freeman's aad Blair's Roads have been cleaned out and a new culvert will be required on Freeman's Road. e- Te Horo riding: The roads in this r . riding are a good deal out of repair and ig owing- to the continuous wet weath.ir s- i it has been impossible to do much work i on them, but teams are now engaged on e the Main Road and if the weather continues fine tenders will be called dur■r ing next week for the metalling of some ) of the district roads. The Otaki Gorge ,i Road is badly cut up through the e.art- ., ing of firewwod and if this continues, > it. will be quite impossible to maintain* .- with money available; the fencing ii on this road also requires attention. 1 Repairs to Otaki bridge have now been i completed, except the tarring of same. 3 A start was made with the bridge on - the Te Horo Beach Road, but owing to their being a doubt as to whether the new bridge is partly on private proi perty or not work has been stopped in 1 the meantime. Timber is on hand for the bridge on the Hautere Cross Rnr.d, and work will be commenced on this bridge on the completion of Beach Road , bridge. Re ford on Main Road near ; Te Horo factory: There arc two alterna- • fives in dealing with this, either banking and doing away with the ford, or cleaning out creek below the ford, but owing to the creek bed gradually rising this would only give-temporary relief.