TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 309, 8 February 1910, Page 7

TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL

MONTHLY XIEETINC. The ordinary monthly meeting of t'ie Taranaki County Council was hold yesterday. Present. Crs. J. R. Hill, K.'.-M- ---' lanson, C. Andrews. C. Carter. XI. Hopson and R. Stevens. FOREMEN'S REPORTS. Foreman Jones; reported that Xlr. Douch had mushed his contracts. lie iiad earteu out 100 yards ot stone from Xlangatea to Ratapiko. also 730 yards from Xlanganui to Avalanche Mill. Tariki road. The contractor had also finished lik work at XI .....iniawiietu depot. Repairs lia.l I.; .11 effected to the decking- of the Xt . ..atea bridge. Foreman E. Bennett reported that nearly all his time had been taken up in blinding and banking up new metal. The road was in fair order: the rains had settiwd tne loose stones down in the; hills. -Mr. E. bur rev was shifting his sawmill from Bristol road out to Mangaone road, meaning that ho would be carting timber on neariy seven miles of county roaa. Foreman Cheliings reported that he had been engaged making side tracks, rakinj; up loose stones ami blinding the road. The road was cutting up in se\« f'l'iii p*ao. There had 'been a lot of tourist traffic on the road through die mouth. Foreman J. Holmes reported that he had erected the fence on Xlonglume Hill, and made it safe, and widened out the filling where it was wanted. The small bridge that ttos near XL'. Joll's entrance at Waiwakaiiio was on •the boundary of the road. lie had pulled it down, and re-built it. The neck of the large wooden culvert on the Mountain road near Xlr. XlaeGonnall'v was getting very rotten. i-'creman Uu;e reported that Be had been engaged during the month repa ring the liurfora road bridge, and lie had put 011 140 chains of waste oil <n the road at various places. Foreman D. Brosnan reported that he had been at work fillintr in and making side tracks near Okatc. He had also filled in a large gully at the si.le of the road in front of Xlr. Daily's property. This work had improved th? width of the road considerably. The bridges were all in good repair. The groin at Stony River had altered its shape, but it was holding its oini against the river and big floods. Foreman Eva reported that the roads ur>ler his can: were in fair order. His time had been occupied during the month leveliinsi side-tracks, cleaning culverts. water - tables, and general work. The engine had done considerable damage at the top end of ®arrington road, and it would require 20 yards of metal to repair it.

Foreman -M. Norris reported that throughout the month hp liar 1 , been doing general roan work, clearing watertables, raking off loose .stones, blinding, etc. The roads 111 his charge were nil in very fair order, except for a few weak places. TRAFFIC FROM TARATA. Cr.- Carter moved, in pursuance of notice given—"'That a toll-gate he erected on the junction road, near tlie Waitara river, or in lieu thereof, that the Clifton County Council ne cited under the Public "Works Act, to, contribute towards the maintenance of the Junction Road.° In speaking to the motion, the mover said that the Moa riding finances were not so buoyant as to permit of the Junction road being used by the settlers of the neighboring county without some recompense. Nor was it fair tint they should be expected to. Cr. Hopson said the revenue from th-i Soil-gate would not be anything like what the Council expected from the record of the traffic taken on the road recently, for there was an alternative route, the Otaraoa road to Waitara. Cr. Stevens, said that already some of the heavv traffic was being diverted from the Junction road to Waitara by the Otaraoa road, which was a far better road to a market town. It w;is quite oil the cards that tlie next mail contract to Tarata would be from Waitara instead of from Jngleivood. This was a- matter that interested the Inglewood business people, hut one or two whom he had seen seemed to consider it not wortli bothering about. But a toil-gate between Tarata and Tngle--woo'd would have the effect of reducing the country trade of the latter town. Cr. Hopson mentioned that the settlers of the Tarata district had raised ,a £IOOO loan for the road. IE was decided to cite the Clifton County Council for a contribution of £SO annually. GENERAL. Mr. C. F. Dowsett, engineer to the Clifton County Council, forwarded a schedule and estimate t>f cost of repairs necessary to the Tikorangi suspension 'bridge, this Council being liable for twoflftlis of the cost.—Crs. Tate and Hiil will confer with Mr. Dowsett. ilr. W. .11. Claris, of Opuuake. wroic again asking for refund of the money 'lie had paid as the. Eltham road special rate, to which lie <-on-.-idered he was .■ntitled— Not ciileriaiiieii. The chairman's action in arranging for a crusher site on .Mr. Lealauds property at Mangnp'i wis confirmed. L'pon the motion of ( r. Andrews, it '.was decided to ask the Post and Teie,graph Department to move a telegraph pole on tlie South road at its jnncti m with the Dover road. Mr. C. (* 1 e it cr again complained of the practice of driving loose hordes on the Elliot road. —The" Council decided '.o take steps to stop the practice, it 'being pointed out that the, horses were doing a lor, of damage to the footpaths. Mr. C. Penn. clerk to the Stratford .Comitf Council, forwarded of a .resolution to the eil'ec.t that owing to 'the Waipulai bridge being so much nearer to the headquarters oi the Sti.itjord Council, it would lie better for !,he PtnitTord council t -° ' l:,ve control. The Council considered there was lio necessity tor altering the existing -r--rancfcment, whereby thi> Council nas control. , lii answer to a letter from Mr. 1. I. • ■lTughson with reference to crossings required at the entrance to his property at Westown, the <devk was instructed .'to reply that the Council does not put in private, crossings. • Mrs. Sumner wrote, complaining that the Council had done nothing to imnrove the state of the entrance to Hie Victoria, road from the South road, which was now impassable to all but lirfil traffic. —To be attended i". 'Mr. Thomas Yeale nsked the Council to continue the metalling of Devon Line to the entrance of Veaie's estate, and stated that last winter it was impossible to sain access to the, property. It was pointed out that this portion of Devon road was not a county road, bur, was under the jurisdiction of the Bar-

ret Road Board, and Xlr. Veale will be recommended to apply to that body. Messrs Eva Bros, offered £l3 18s for the county paddocks at the Waiw.iJcaiho, aud undertook to keep iavze down and fences in repair.—A yeat y ■tenancy will be offered. The resolution fixing tile conditions m ah agreement with Xlr. .1. C. Xloikcfiore as to repairing a road aiter heavy traffic was rescinded. It was decided to make a ciaim upon the New Plymouth \\ ood and Carrying Companv for I'i ' u. co 4 of 2<l yards of stone used in repairing the Upper Carnngton road. Cr ,'>i ; inied of the wandering suick nuisance in the Mmata district, and asked if arrangements could lie maae for a pound in the locality, lie thought that some stock-yards mi r.lie main road fliere would be very suitable. —Deferred, pending enquiry. The attention or the Chief Inspector of Noxious Weeds is to be dra\. u to the spread of noxious ,veed. s on .-vc-iiua 78, Tarurutangi, on the corner of K.indt ana Junction road's. Cr. Carter wag authorised to take steps to ascertain if the £250 voted by the Government for Carrington road was the subsidy promised last ye.ir, ■and under what conditions the money was available. Mr. tfeo. Walker will be written to requiring li'iin to cut blackberries on the gravel reserve at Chain bridge. Acco,mts were passed for payment as scheduled: —Administration, ,t'27l i3s Id; Xloa riding, £4lO 7s sd; Waitara riding, £36 15* Id; Omata riding, £l2 l3s 4d; liurworth riding, £585 10s Sd; total, £l3of> 18s 7d. TENDERS. J There was good tendering for the various metal supply contracts, whidi were, let as follows for crushed stone, except where otherwise stated:— Xloa Riding.—2ooyds, Tarata pit, 0. Sehreiber, !)s 5d per yard; 400 yds, Miketawa depot, J. Nielson, Ss 3d per yd; 300 yds, IVgatoro depot. J. Neilson, ,"s per* yard ; 300 yds, chain ornige depot, j. Neilson, 6s 3d per yard; 240 yds, X!itihews' depot, Junction road, J. Swan,, 4s lid; 600 yds, Lealand's depot (Xlangorei), F. and E. Sole, 4s 9d. Waitara riding.—4soyds, ' Xlalioet.il'ii pit. W. Cartwright, 5s sd: 300 yds, Waiwakaiiio depot, T. and R. Parkin, 3s 3d; 500 yds, Putt's, Clarke's and railway pits A. Ilaskill, 4s. Omata riding.—4ooyds, Beach road depot, Omata, K. George, as lid; 400 yds (boulders)-. Waireka depot, C. Kendall, 3s 11<1: 1100 yds, Oakura depot, T. and R Parkin, 3s lid; 750 yds, Timaru lopot, A. Cowling, 6s; 750 yds, Stony River and Kaihihi depots, T. aud 11. Parkin, 3s art. Hurworth riding.—4ooyds m . Carrington road, T. Collins, 3s sd; 400 vds, Frankley and Eliot road, F. and L. 'Sole, 7s sd.