OHINEMURI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 130, 26 February 1887, Page 2

OHINEMURI COUNTY COUNCIL.

At a special meeting of the above Council, held at Paeroa on Saturday last, tenders were opened and accepteJ as below, in connection with expenditure of L5OO errant from Government, for improvement of the main ThnrnesTauranga road. No 1 Contract : Road Work (formation) : N ash's to top of the hill, 136 chains : Thos. Qoinn, sen., (accepted), L 29 10s ; Wm. Barrett, L 33 8s ; Collet and Thaxter, L-19 14s ; Marriman, L 73105; P Mulligan, LBO ; L Short, and Ricketts, LIQ2 ; J W Shaw, Ll6l 12s ; (informal, Thos. Quinn, Li B Gs Bd.) No 2 Contract : Metalling same portion : E. Bain, (accepted,) Ll5B ; J. Kennedy, Ll?2 (retained) ; N Dickey, LlB5 ; Short and Rieketts, L 217 12s No 3 Contract : Forming an 1 Metalling G2 chain* from top of hill to Rahu Crossing: Collett and Thaxter, (accepted,) LO9 10s ; McLeod, L 93 ; J Hicketts, LlOl Is 61, (retained); Informal, E Bain, L 110; Thos, Quinn, L 124. No 4 Contract : Do. from Rahu Crossing to Owharoa. Letting of contract deferred. GRANT OF £150 FOR WAIHI. A letter was read from the Minister of Mines stating £150 subsidy had been sanctioned for tramway to the mines at Waihi. It decided to proceed with the extension of track, Karangahake towards Te Aroha, as soon as possible.