ORDINARY MEETING.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 463, 16 April 1890, Page 2

ORDINARY MEETING.

The business of tne ordinary monthly meeting was then proceeded with.

Repairs to Te Aroha-Shaftesbury Road : Correspondence was read between Mr Cox and the County Clerk on this matter, Mr Cox having offered to pay one third of cost of spreading the stuff taken from the drains. It was resolved that Mr Cox be informed that th® Council sees no reason to alter the decision arrived at at the last meeting with refn nee thereto. County Road through Gordon Special Settlement: The Chairman of the Association renewed the application and offer contained in bis letter of the 10th March last re repairs to this road.

It was resolved that the Council agrees to grant the application, and will upon receipt of the amount (L4O) promised by the Association, at once commence those parts of the worn which are most urgent. Morrinsvillo-Te Aroha Road : Mr Hanmer reported that,he had inspected that portion of this road complained of by Mr Buttle, and that it was advisable to at once do certain repairs thereto. It was resvlved that the necessary iepairs.be done atonce;'; ! . .. Cambridge-Tauranga Road : :The Taurangn County Conncil wrote asking the Coi ncil to make that portion of this road lying within the Piako County fit for driving fat stock, and suggested that it be made wide enough to allow vehicles to be driven over it.

It was resolved that the Engineer be instructed to inspect this road from the bottom edge of the bush to the eastern boundary of the county, and to furnish at the next meeting of the Council un estimate of the cost of making it fit for travelling fat stock. Proposed Railway Culvert : The Public Works Department wrote agreeing to place a culvert under the railway line at Waihou, in the place suggested by t d Council, provided the Counc 1 hears the cost thereof. The manager of Mr Isaac Holden’s property also wiote in refirence to the proposed drainage. The Engineer was instructed to inspect the drainage referred to by Mr Holden, and also to ascertain how far the drainage of the main road is obstructed by the railway line and to report at next meeting.

Ukoroire Hot Springs Road : Mr Isaacs wrote stating that he had paid the Auckland Agricultural Company the cost of fencing this road.

: The Clerk was instructed to write to the company, asking if the company would dedicate the road free of cost to the County upon completion of the survey. Miscellaneous : The tender of C. Murphy, Ll2, for bridge at Maori Reserve, Gordon Special Settlement, was accepted. It was decided to write to the Tamahere Road Board, pointing ont the dangerous state of two bridges on that portion of the main road from Cambridge to Te Aroha, known as the Victoria Road ; also, that repairs are required to two cuttings in the direction of Taraahere, after leaving Victoria Road, and asking that the necessary repairs be effected without delay.

It was resolved that the Chairman and Messrs Brunskill and Williams, be a committee to enquire into the financial position of the Council, and the probable amount required during the ensuing year.

The Engineer was authorised to call* for tenders for the more urgent works required upon the Gordon Settlement Road, and Messrs Hanmer and Mills were appointed a committee to open and accept the same, p n receipt of information from the County Clerk that the subsidy promised by the Association had been lodged to the credit ,of the Council.

The Council then went into committee of the whole to cousider the question of the Wmorongotnai bridge.