RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8942, 7 October 1907, Page 3

RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL.

loathly meeting of the above was y Saturday. - President:— Crs. Kmixon (Chairman), D. Fraser, ■Sob, A McGregor, C. J. Canton. wflethhTi&gi). lof absence was grants to Crs. |1 «id Duncan. was dealt with as ■''from John Stevens, M. 11.8, Ih support Council’s application fcjCd borrowing power. To be if?’, his attention. I Charitable Aid Board, for|g U cil eque of £54 12s for chanb 'telegraph Department, roR subsidy of £35 per annum Erihone to Watershed road. |‘T(oliairK , an Or. McGregor) fiacil cannot see its waj to £guarantee asked for and ' government should offer facilities to settlors whom placed in the back blocks. S Mauawatu County Oonncil, V Council agrees to the sale pony plant. Resolved % n —Or. Fraser) that Council f: ga ic of pwnt and net wire Lds he held in trust for ?rv and that Mauawatn Conned for account jmd funds 1 ifoin Ferry Reserve. Bulls Town Board, complaiuuecliarge of flood water info “"from a culvert on Bulls"road.—Loft in Mr Thoms l n deal with. ‘g Skcnnan, Snellgrovo (8) " jlcßcth, asking that loan Lj for formation and metal‘ljjjcllgrovo’s road.—Referred Thoms to report upon at next

hyun McKolvio,fashing per„to place telephone line hjd.—Granted* subject to ap- „{ jlr Thoms. Campbell and Lovendgo, Council to dig a drain to roheir paddock at Pohouui of from throe culverts. “ ffe d to Mr Mair to attend to. nJlrs Ij- Dillon, objecting to jnerty being rated for loan for 5 road and complaining of I jiaungahoo road.—Received. ■ B. T.'ißatlcy and M. Morrijreoiuff t° proposal to borrow f or pukookahu road.° nJacobson Bros., application “their thirds in Upper WaugaJjd District expended by the job their road of access.— that necessary steps bo to give effect to tbo applica-

p 0. Tcuuoiit and Wilson asking tlmt a loan be raised m road loading from Main Lards Mr Touueut’s house.— - c d that application be placed , list of loans to bo applied for

in'Jlogridge and Co., applying sliaro of Oonucil’s printing.dived that Council is quite satffith present arrangements. ffl Treasury, provisionally ap,„o\ following loans, —£5500, ,fa!m road ; £2500 Ougo road ; rafcirild Street; Maugawoka; lit) per cent) Makohiuo-Mauga-road: £SO (10 per cent) Moa,o Valley Road South; £lllO x cent) 'Wharcroa road; £SO I( veka Township; and £7O (10 g t) Brandon Hall rond. fair reported that tho mouth -Somber proved one of the wotiii most disastrous months exifsi, there having been 23 wot ' au d a rainfall of 8 inches, pally every siding "road in the v lias been blocked with slips fing tho employment of a large er of extra hands necessary. Vinegar Hill road, Onga, ilioa and Maugatipoua roads all badly blocked, but bad now ■estored for wheel traffic. Two oua laud slips had taken place Uaagamahoo road, in Pohouui it. In one place nine chains i another seven chains of the le bad slipped bodily into the leaving tho bare napa cliff iuioh to cut the road. It would wooes before this road could toretl for wheel traffic. Many roads had suffered from smalps, bat in most instances the ion, with a little assistance, put them in order again. The ions volume of water in the va had caused it to scour aud

ten the approach to tho bridge DUlion road, Rata. The bank ißeu protected with r scrnb, wiland stone bolsters. With such weather poor progress had been with contracts for road works oau proposal of £5500 on Pnkeoroad bad been signed by all no of the ratepayers aud was vfore curried. The remaining dure conld have been obtained not tho occupier boon absent at ara. This was the largest loan (1 by deed of consent within the ity, aud its having been uuani;ly signed constituted a record, is recommended that tenders be ] this month for the work so

a contractor may have the full

M{ of tho summer weather. — hough signatures could not be siied to carry tiro Ngarnrn road (he (Mr Mair) and Or. McGregor [met the settlors at Mr Brice’s [shed. It was unanimously dell, that should the requisite uumbf names not be obtained before

[present Council meeting, the should bo transferred to the nhne road for the purpose of Sing and improving the road, ad also attended a meeting of layers at Mr Findlay McLean’s ■ousider the proposed loan" of

i), for gravelling Mangatipona . It-was there unanimously delta reduce the loan to £2IOO and gravel from Kauaugaroa bridge iposite Mr McLean’s old cottage, t six miles, instead of to Tura-

bridge as originally proposed, was resolved (Chairman —Or. ton) that application bo made to Laud Board for the reserves in

County.—That (Crs. McGregor Jthridgo) the filling and water eon the Turakina Valley road one and charged to the general

t Thoms reported that the recent J rains did not do a great deal of ago in the southern portion of the aty. A good many small slips s down on most of tho sideings. The extension of repairs to protective works at Scott’s Ferry a be.'n completed at a cost of £l2 More of the cliff has fallen into river at Paulin’s, and it is now e up to the edge of the metalled 1. The road is being widened at

i point. Tho Council has no al pit in the locality of Punsi--18 on tho Upper Tntaeuui road, there was some difficulty in proing metal for the roads there. 3 best site for a metal reserve is

Mr Bred in’s property, near Mr ic’uie’s blacksmith shop. The hi is very good, and by clearing ! a creek for a short distance the could bo kept nearly dry. Mr ehu wanted £SO for an acre, imiag that Mr Seymour sold his ice adjoining at £SB per acre, er deducting full value for all ildin.gs and fencing. The conaction of the Kalmnranponga idge will be completed next week. ® progress of the work has been w, but tho cost of the erection |1 be under the original contract ice. I estimate the cost of telling about 33 chains of Tenet’s road at £IOO. Tho estimated it of forming and metalling Snellre’s Lane was £l4O. I would reectfully recommend that the email build a roadman’s cottage i wheels, so that it can bo moved one locality to another, if deid. At present it is wanted for O’Brien, roadman, at Upper feenni.—Resolved (Crs. McGregor Canton) That unless satisfactory his can be arranged, a. metal pit taken from Mr Brediu’s laud der tho Public Works Act; that 'is. McGregor—A. G. Simpson) r Thoms bo authorised to have a Oman’s cottage erected on wheels. Mr Willis whited on the Council jd asked that the gate erected by lt Signal on the road from Curl’s feto Raugitikei River be alto remain.—Resolved (Crs. Gregor—Lethbridge) that Council !88 no reason why the gate should * removed. ( ®r oj. Johnston waited on the tencil and complained of the inteitary condition of certain seccos in Mangawoka.—Resolved that * Jlair report on the matter, and ’St the Sanitary Inspector be asked 'inspect and report on tho matter I once.

It was resolved (Crs. McGregor—i, G. Simpson) that application he aade to the Commissioner of Crown «ids and the Upper Waugaohu load Board for the thirds accrued to Taihape-Otuarei road. "That (Chairman— -Or. McGregor) Weil having considered the ftp* plication of Mar ton Extension Syndics to raise a loan on debentures, &ret it cannot at present see its ! & y to accede to the request withjrt having further information St £ disposal. ; That (Chairman — Or. McGregor) Mcatiou he made to the Land JBrd for certificates hypothecating J® thirds for interest on loans o| $0 for Moawliango Valley road pStt and £3OO for Kaweka road.

That (Crs. Lethbridge—McGregor) Oonncil uphold Mr Westland’s objection to Ills property being included in special rating district for proposed loan forißowen’s road. . That (Chairman— Mr. McGregor) Mr Mair submit to the next meeting a map of the proposed special rating district for loan of £IOOO to be transferred from the Ngaruru road to the Maugahoe road. That (Crs-. McGregor—Canton) Council adopt the special rating area as drawn up by Mr Mair for loan of £SO for metalling Kakariki street, Mangaweka. That (Chairman—Or. McGregor) one half of Mr A. McPherson’s PokoWlicro property be excluded from the special rating district -for loan of £OOO for metalling on the Makowlial-Turakina Talley and Turakina roads. That (Crs. McGregor—Canton) the Chairman bo authorised to Sign the plan of lands to be taken as a road from Sections 6, Block 111., Hautapu S.D., and plan of road exchanges through Messrs If. O, Gower’s and Jas. Bruce’s properties. That (Crs. Lethbridge—'A. G. Simpson) a sum of £760 be placed on the list of loans, to bo applied fO? in turn, for forming and metalling Bruce’s road. . Mr Timothy Troy was appointed a County ranger. Tenders wore left in tno hands of Mr Mair to deal with. The Treasurer reported that receipts during the month amounted to £1584 lls 2d, of which £843 4s 7d was received for rates. After payments amounting to £732 17s lOd the debit balance will stiind at £4857 0s sd.