COUNTY COUNCIL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 16 January 1913, Page 3

COUNTY COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MEETING

The monthly meeting of the Stratford County Council was continued yesterday afternoon.

“A Fair Thing.”

Mr. W. H. Norton, a ratepayer on the upper end of the Denbigh Road, waited on the Council with the request that the settlers should be allowed to put a man at work on the road for a month. He explained that the metal was there in readiness, it having been broken for a year or so. A young man named Nash was willing to do the work at 8s a day, and the settlers would supply a horse and cart, “If this man has one month m the road,” he concluded, “we’ll keep quiet for years.” The Engineer: “It’s a fair thing!” A motion was passed authorising the Engineer to confer with the settlers, and the man will duly go “on the road.” Correspondence. F. M. Standish (Tarata )wrote that it had only lately come to his knowledge that for the last four years the rates on section 25, block XII., Huirca, had not been paid over by tly) Council to the Moa Road Board for spending. In the late Mr. Atkinson’s time this was done at his (the writer’s )request, and he hoped that the Council would hand . over whatever money was now lying to the credit of this section, and continue to do so in the future.

The Chairman said that the Manganui Road Board (since absorbed by the Council) had transferred the rates, but this Council had never done so.

It was decided, “as an act of courtesy,” to transfer £5 out of the rates in this way.

L. Carroll wrote asking if the Comity Ranger was not supposed to give a County Council receipt when taking money for a horse found by him straying on the road. It was stated that the Council did not handle moneys so received, therefore the matter of the receipt did not directly concern the Council. The ranger, however, was requested to give receipts when handling impounding fees. Mr. J. B. Hine, M.P., in acknowledging the Council’s letter, stated that he had communicated with the Minister of Finance, pointing out the position the Council was in regarding subsidies and loan monies, and hoped a reply of some satisfaction would be given to the Council.

Mr. Hine will be informed that the Council has received no reply from the Minister, and he will be asked to obtain an assurance from the Minister that in the event of the loan money not being available by March 81st, the subsidies will bo renewed and not allowed to lapse. General. Bridges will be re-decked as mentioned in the Engineer's report. The tender of I). Favier, for the supply of boulders at Cardiff, was accepted'.

A motion that all unpaid rates for the year 1911-12 be sued for was carried. Ten per cent, will be charged on this year’s rates unpaid on February 4 th.

Councillor Young moved for an estimate by the Engineer of the cost of renewing the Tututawa Bridge.—Carried.

Tenders are to he called for 500yds of maintenance metal for the Mangaehu Road Bridge.' It was decided to expend, under the Engineer’s supervision, £4O on the Makara Road. The Council’s workmen are to bo paid for four days at Christmas, on which days holidays were observed.

Accounts amounting to £3990 were passed for payment.