EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 74, 23 April 1909, Page 4

EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL

The ordinary monthly meeting was held at Opunake on Friday. Present: Crs. S. Campbell (chairman), W. C. Dudley, C. 11. Hurst, S. K. Farquhar, M. 3. Jfacßeynolds, J. Young, T. Harvev, and A. E. Phillips. HOSPITAL IJOAHD KATE. A letter was read from the New Plymouth Hospital and Charitable Aid Board stating that the levy was i)d in the £IOO, and the amount the Egmoiit Council would be required to contribute would lie £172.55 9d. The levy for the Hawera Hospital is lid in the £IOO. the contribution for the year being £125 10s Oil. Cr. Macßey-nolds pointed out that the levy in the Stratford Comity vvas Ud and Is 3d in Patea and Wangamii. WATItATE COUNTY MATTEU. The Waimate county clerk forwarded the following resolution passed at last meeting of the Council-. "That the E,rmont County Council be written to asking them to agree to tlie balance of Block XIII. being included in the Waimate West County." Failing their consent to this course, the Waimate West County would ask that a Commission he. appointed to determine what amount cf subsidy the Waimate West C'oiwty was entitled to.—One of the councillors remarked that since the Waimate Itoad Board had been converted into a county it looked an if the members were suffering from swelled head.—No action. FOREMEN'S REPORTS. ■ Foreman Munro will lie asked for a-.i explanation why such poor material was put on Patiki road. Resolved, That 50 yards of gravel he piocured for maintaining Xopera road. Foreman .YlcHaiiighaii (Rahotu southern) asked for a quantity of pipes fur use at Pungarehu.—(fronted. Each foreman complained that in the present slate of the roads it appeared impossible to maintain them in good inder during the coming whiter with .the stone supplies available. FINANCIAL. Accounts 'amounting to £303 17s Id were passed for payment. The overdraft stood nt .£2BOll. The -statement of balances to March showed—Oeo Hiding, credit £0 lis 7il: Opunake Riding, credit £4 lis 4d; Ki hotu Ridr.ig (northern), debit £l2!l,'i jo's Cd; Rahotu Riding (southern), debit Cll7O 0s Bd—Abridged from Times.