SOUTHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 10, 9 June 1894, Page 12

SOUTHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL.

Friday, Bth June. The monthly meeting was attended by Mr T. Green (chairman) and Crs. Hast, Hamilton, Ward, Mc-Cal-lum, Raymond, Fraser, and McQueen. It was decided that the yards erected at Kennington by Mrs Dawson be declared a public pound, and that she be appointed poundkeeper. W. Letcher, Drummond, Wrote claiming damages for injuries to a horse through its leg going through the approach to acul/ert —Declined. J. Stewart’s resignation]©! the position of ranger for the Winton and the Oreti Ridings was accepted, and his appointment as poundkeeper ' cancelled.

J. Brown, inspector of slaughteryards, wrote that at the request of a number of butchers he had looked into the matter of sheep being killed in different parts of the district and sold at auction to the highest bidder. The butchers had a right to protect themselves against this unlicensed slaughtering, one result of which was that an inferior article goes into genei’al consumption. The report, which also refered to the intention of one of the freezing companies to placeon the local market sheep above or belovV freezing weight (the inspector expressing the opinion that in that ecase the companies might be required to pay the same fee as butchers on account of sheep so dealt with) was referred to the Finance Committee.

It was decided to inform the Upper Dipton River Board that the river board channel near the bridge is damaged so as to endanger the bridge, and that the Council holds the Board liable for the necessary repairs, and calls on them to have the same effected. It was also decided to call the attention of the Wiuton River Board to the fact that the bridges at road crossings are being rendered dangerous through the scouring of the banks of the channel, also that the bridges are out of repair, and to ask the Board to attend to same without delay. It was decided to declare Mrs Daniel’s yards at Dipton a public pound on the requirements of the Act being complied with, and to ask the settlers moving in the matter to name a suitable person as poundkeeper. A. McKenzie, dog tax collector, asked the Council to vote him £5 for injuries received through having been bitten by a dog, which a West Plains settler had set on to him, while in the execution of his duty. If not protected he (Mr McKenzie) might have to carry a gun. —Received. Mr Hanley applied for damages 'owing to an engine having been injured by going through a culvert on fhe.Otainaroad. —Declined,the inspector reporting that the engine had been working ever since without repair W K. Hazlett, South Hillend, claimed, through his solicitor (Mr Macalister), the sura of £lO on account of a horse having been injured through the state of a bridge at Limehills. —Declined, there having been no negligence on the part of the Council or its servants.

At the instance of Cr. Raymond a motion was passed to the effect that the Council is prepared to subsidise £ for £ to that raised by farmers’ clubs and local committees towards the destruction of small birds —either in poisoned grain or collection of sparrows and linnets eggs —to a sum not exceeding £2O for each riding. To ensure united action it was resolved to recognise no application received after the August meeting. Mr R. McNab, M.H.R., was appointed to represent the Council at a conference to be held in Wellington shortly. Accounts amounting to £1276 2s 5d were passed for payment. The matter of the agreement between the Wyndhara Town Board and other local bodies re the construction of a drain was referred back to the committee previously appointed to

consider the alterations made in draft agreement, with power to'act. On the motion of Or. Hast a I’etum was ordered to be prepared to enable a comparison to be made between the cost of elections nnder the Licensing Act of 1881, and Triennial Licensing Act, 1889, and those held under the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893.

The Council then adjourned to the second Friday in July.