A ROAD DISPUTF.
NAPIER, Febiuary 5. A Commission of Inquiry was held to-da^ before Mr W. S. Short, solicitor for th« Roads Department, as to question oj* road maintenance, the road in question being the Eskdale-Pohui road, at preseni maintained by the Hawke's Bay County Council. It was argued for that body that as a portion of the road w«« within tlw Wairoa County — the valuation of the pro. pertv in that county to which the rpa«,l ga\e access, and on whioh the Wairo** County Council received the rates, beinn £241.060, as against a valuation of £136,21* of the property in Hawke's Bay County- ■• tho Wairoa County Council should beai 1 half the cost of maintainonoo. After_ evidence had been given, the Commissioned anounced that his decision would be foi» warded in due course.
Durins? seven months of last year on«* subscriber to the Wanpranui Public Library took out 304 books, 274 of which were novels.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 11
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156A ROAD DISPUTF. Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 11
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