Thompson's Track.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 399, 4 September 1889, Page 2

Thompson's Track.

A eppoiiil meeting of Timranga County Council was held i,n. tI)Q CminciJ Chambers; ob Thursday,. 22nd .in.sjt., at I«JL a ..in. _ Piesent • Cis J. Brown (Chair),. M-ieinill,in s Killen, Armstrong, and Piatt. 'The Clerk lend the notice calling special -meeting to consider Thompson's Truck and Te Puke tramway. ■. , . » • ■ i Cr JMacmillan ." No doubt it was well' known to the Councillors that Mr Herries. had stopped the contractor* on Thompson*!* .Track from going on his land, and that the, . Gonncil were n6t in. a position to negotiate with Mr Hei;rics, as his land was outside the County boundary ; when the Council signed the agieemen.ts it was distinctly understood that Government had the road surveyed <iod gazetted. So he would move the following :—: — , That the Chairman'be requested to send a delayed telegram to Grovernment ■ stating that i tlie work on Thompson's. Track -Las been stopped by a Mr Herries, ( lu'ough whose- pro- » ix^rty the road runs ,f or'ab'out a nlilp ; ancl/'as this Council is debarred from spending funds , belonging to the County outside _^tke County, * the Council is not in a position to.enle-* into L any agrGoinent with, Mr H«rries and oilior ' private pioperty holders outside the eou-ifci. Further, that when this Council undertook to make " Thompson's Track," it was distinctly understood that the Government had completed the survey ; but it would now appear that a*, portion of the land surveyed (also ou,t< qf. tlii%.