PAPAKURA TOWN BOARD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 153, 7 March 1916, Page 2

PAPAKURA TOWN BOARD.

Monthly Meeting. The monthly meeting ot the Papakura Town Board was be Id last night, the merrbers present being Messrs D Stewart, chairman, D W Jones, T D Campbell, R Mears, J Bates, A vVallis and the clerk, Mr H Geissler NOXIOUS WEEDS The Fields Inspector of the Department of Agriculture wrote acknowledging the Board a letter with reference to serving notices on owners of sections who had noxious weeds growing on their frontages and stated that the matter would be dealt with in due course THE PUBLIC LIBRARY A copy of the Order-in-Council vesting Allotment 115 of Section 11, of the village of Papakura in the Town Board, in trust as a site for a public library was received from the Department of Lands and Surveys

The following proposals affecting the public library were propo.ed by Mr Jones, and seconded by Mr Stewart, viz:—"That th 3 Board assume full control of the library, buildings and site thereof from the present date and that it be managed by a committee ot five, three members ot the Board to be appointed tr iennially, and two to be elected annually by the subscribers; that Miss Cave be appointed Librarian at a remuneration to be fixed; that the library be open fur the issue cf books on Fridays from seven to eight p.m., anp the annual subscription to the library to be 5s per annum". —The motion was adopted THE PUBLIC POUND

Advice was received ot the Franklin County Council's willingness to bear one-lourth of t;e cost of the establishment of a publicpound to be situated at Ardmore ROAD WORKS

The clerk was directed to instruct Mr West to proceed with the piping of one section of the drain in front of his property on Keri road, Mr West to defray half the cost of the pipes and freight Mr Arthur Richardson wrote nsk-' ing tha Board to effect improvements to the Park road before the weather broke. He suggested that the hollow or dip in the middle of the road should be tilled t) the required level and metal put on the part that was a bog last winter.--1. was resolved to inspect the locality with a view of taking ac ion

Mr W W Carpenter wrote offering £5 to the Buard if they would undertake to metal Carpenter's road before the winter set in.—The chairman suggested that about two chains of formation on the road should be metalled Resclved accordingly. Mr Mears to supervise the work It was agreed that members should meet at the jjnetion of Keri Keri and Park roads with a view of inspecting the pipes and drain there, and to decide as to the best means of having both cleaned

In order to improve Kanfurly road it was resolved that both strips, at either eicU of the metal, should be graded and the soil ised in blinding the; metal Following on the report of members who inspected Clevedon road, in the vicinity cf Mrs Ballen's property, the cl-'rk was instructed to authorm Mrs Bui Jen to have the spot repaired and to charge the Board with the cost

The que tion of filling in and metalling the hollow in Elliott street, opposite Green street, was considered, and it was decided to notify tte Franklin County Council, (he road being a boundary road, that the Board intended expanding £2O on the work, tte work to remain in abeyance until after a reply wai receive! from the Ccuncil Messrs Jones, Campbell and Bates were deputed to inspect Princeis street with a view of having it formed and taking the water off it by laving pipe?, the work to be done by day labour MISCELLANEOUS Arrangements for employing a boy to light the lamps as from the 28th mat. and to have damaged lamps repaired was 1 :ft to thy chairman to attend to Mr Campbell was deputed to appoint a sexton The clerk was instructed to aecertain if the ranger employed by the Wairoa Road Board would visit the district ore > every fortnight for a period of three months, aud if so what remuneration 113 would require.—Tha chairman was authorised to deal with the answer