FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 463, 4 April 1919, Page 2

FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Yesterday's Meeting^

Th# ufuit taonthly meeting of the Franklin County Council was held in the Council Chambers, Hall street, yesterday. Present: Crs W. Claud Motion [chairman), R. F. Reid, J. A. Short, T. W. Woods, J. 3. Montgomerie, H. Wilcox, J. Keith, W. H. Thomas, with the County Clerk (Mr Ar P. Day) and the County Engineer (Mr J. F. Mc Arthur). } f , mCE CEEEBHATIONS The Minister of Internal "AUafrs forwarded a copy of the proposals pf the Government respecting Peace celebrations. The Chairman. said the question was whether the County as a whole should take it up or not. The various towns in the County would be arranging something amongst themselves, and for that reason he did not think the Council as a whole should take anything- they would clash with the arrangements made in the centres. Then again, said the Chairman, the Borough Council was arranging something. The whole question before the Council was whether it should take it up or whether each Riding member would arrange for a function in his Riding. Cr Wilcox said he was quite in accord with what the Chairman said. In Buckland, he said, they had a meeting and intended to hold spoijts on Peace Day. He thought the matter of providing funds should be left to the people and thought the Council should not donate any sum. The Government would be subsidising money collected. In bis district they were collecting for the project. The Chairman said in Waiuku they were collecting money for the celebrations and the matter was left in the hands of the Waiuku ToWn Board. The Chairman then moved that thq lettes be received and that anjfnui&lMr could take notice of it and arrange something in his own aiding. Cr Wood said his riding was close to the Borough and be would support the Borough arrangements. Pukekohe West people would naturally support the Borough effort. ■, The motion was carried, the Chairman remarking that the Council would render aasretanwt<ra®y r Couucillors taking the matter up. THE EPIDEMIC. A circular letter was received from the Minister of Public Health expressing the thanks of tbo Govfrti ment to the local bodies, and to the people of the district,' lot the instance rendered during the influenza epidemic. WEEK, In another circular to all borough councils and local authorities, th® Minister of Public Health urged the importance of cities, towns, and residential areas being cleaned up, and added that the importance therein was emphasised by the possibility of a recrudescence of the epidemic of last November and December. . With the toregoing object be desired to suggest to Jo||,Council that a special " clean up® 1 ' week should be arranged for, and that the inhabitants should be urged to "clean up their premises in the most thorough mauner that was possible, and submitted a scheme whereby the Council could work. . The le ter was merely " received ROAD TO PAERATA STATION. A copy of an Order-in-Council declaring a portion of the access road to the Paerata railway station, through section 60, Karaka parish, to be a county road, was .received from the Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department. The Cleric said the rouj was known as the Helvetia station to Paerata road.—Received. HAW HOLIDAY. The Minifiter of Labour forward* an extraot from-the "New Zealand Gazette," advising that Wednesday had been fixed as the statutory halfholiday in the Franklin County for 1919.—Received.. » « SOLDIERS' H'NKHAI.S.

The Defence Department forwarded regulations and instructions governing funerals of ex-membe s of the New Zealand Expedition try Force, the cost of which m\y bfl x charge against the State

MOTOR TRANSPORT The Clerk of the Manawatu County Council wrote stating that at the last meeting <>f his Council the question of mo' t Uvrrtea for* metal hauling purp >sas whs discussed and th° "pinion .cas espreMed that now tin* war hud ended there be many motor lorries which have been use 1 in Vr mce f> r tran«port purposes, and which if returned to the original works an 1 ovet h iuled would be quiti suiti'de fur metal carti /. The Manawatu C.mncil that «nv 0-•urity (jouncil , desiring such vehi should mak* M repre-entation fo thn il so that applica'•• l could he in • e to the British Onvernm <ut for *uch number as w u consi wo i ! b^ rrqur-d in New Zealand The Chairman sail the, (■>< mcil '.j hud dis-ussel the matter previous'v • and "thought i* should fall in wi'h j the Manawa'u County Councd'# sug»estion He consider® I that m *t«•p

ial % fifirnif OtimrHf mpffted free of duty. Montgomerie said he thoggs4 the? -GgMmment should iig&prt C°lH^k| in cil ma '® m ' an d gestow^^rt they iMtfd w^to^ Prkae Minister (the Eight Hon W. F. pCassey), who was in to ask him to make representation* to thesj British Government with the vie# of obtaining some motor lgtrie£ Or Woods supported the idea. (Jr Montgomerie thought it was ratfisr late to communicate with Mr rai be re- •- -' " , a . A, -, (fc'Cr nfontgomene s motion, the Clefe was instructes toVwply toMa|awatu, stating that this Council waf heartily in aeqacd with th«fcsug£ He wiaiuMM. inducted to joint out that the Franklin County hai< already considered the matter, an<Kthat in the opinion of t^aCouncil thefiime had arrived when all such should be imported by the Government duty free. § SELECTION or THE*OOVF.RXOR & copy of a resolution was received frofi the Hastings Borough Council stafbg that the Council consider the timf has arrive i when tie Governor of fie Dominion should b9 selected fro# the people of the Dominion, and rec&amended the 1 * 'appoiiittoeri: of General Sir Andrew Russell, seeing tha| His Majesty the KiDg, recogGeneral Russet's great courdevotion to the Empire, had conferred distinguished honours upta him. The Hastings Borough Coiacil asked support in the matter. 'Ae Chairman said he did not think jthe Council should take on sucj remitter. Theyhart any to do-ta-fooking after their owqi, withpt, entering into poiagcs. ; ■ Tfte Wttyririitinerely " received." t PAPATOBA LiAnatnES;'.j I&e PapaKira, Town. Board; wrote askjlg for detailadatcouits of the amqlnt doe to the Council for half shal| of e|pQndijtUf» t ouj , Various boundary roads. The mutter arose out $f an account previously the jpoujpcil Rom th» Board. A ; The Qlerk?and Engineer nte instruftedto' Silpply the - nforajjatioa/; The ChieJ. Burtayor, Auckland, forwarded, .a plan of Swift, street, Rumuman,' «hii-h Was proposed to be son, and requested that "further action be taken in the matter by the Council to cotqplete the closing of the said road, ji ThafClerk reported that he had foiwarjjfed a tracing o! the plan of *■ the * District Railway Engineer, in order that the Railway Department could obtain all signatures necessity for the of the road. The Chairman said the matter had nothing to do with the Council, but was a patter to arrange bepraen the; Railway Department and Messrs Dicksoit and Buckland's, Ltd. He pointed; out that the Department wanted a read to the station, and added that he informed the District Engineer that the Council would not take over the control of the road unless it was made a chain wide. It was for the Department to settle with tfc» property-owners. The action in replying was endorsed. OLIUHINO I'APARIMP CRKEK. Mr E. Kretchmar, of Paparimu, wrote (tawing* the attention of the to the state of the Paparimu stfeam crossing the road and running through Mr Francis' property. .He pointed out that the creek if as full of obstructions and requested the Council to elear the same apd to improve the drainage from tM road. The matter was left in the hands of Cr Lfrckwood lainspeot and deal with.

OTHER ni'SIN'ESS The ftha business will reporfejTfnour nSxt issue