FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 879, 24 January 1930, Page 11

FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

From Our Own Correspondent PUKEKOHE, Wednesday. The Franklin County Council met yesterday, Mr. J* N. Massey, M.P., * Tlio statutory half-holiday was fixed for Saturday. . , , . The chairman was appointed to ienresent the council at a conference of local authorities at Auckland relative • o regional planning. , Tho representation of the Franklin Combined chambers of Commerce urging the abandonment of the deviation scheme and the building of a new bridge on Brown's Gully Road was referred to the engineer for a report. Tho Auckland Harbour Board advised that the Waipipi shell bank on the Manukau Harbour had been reserved for the sole use of the council. At the request of settlers steps are tc be taken for the raising of the Karaka Point Road loan of £4,10 for m ?t ta wa n s e dec°i r d k ed to apply to the Minister of Public Works for a vote of £1 400 the council to contribute £4OO toward the cost of metalling the road to the soldiers' settlement at I uni. It W as explained 2 that the minister had offered free formation work, but his estimate furnished by a settler was £L2OO, as against the engineers one Jt The’council resolved to apply to the Government for financial assistance toward the re-erecting of a bridge on Pearson’s Road. Patumahoe, damaged by the recent flood.