TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 7

TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL

MONTHLY VIEKTINO. ( 1 At the monthly meeting of the Tara- s naki County Council yesterday there i were present: Messrs J. Ilrown (in the j chair), ,T. R. liill, J. Andrews, A. Morton, 1). McAUum, C. Andrews, C. Billing a and M- llopson. S INSPECTOR'S REPORT. j' The county inspector (Mr. R. W. Bond) reported for the moiit'h of De- c ceniber as follows: e Mon Riding.—A. Oouch hail made a y start with contract No. 2!Hi, Tariki road. c The drain along the frontage of Mr. James' property, leading from Tariki Hotel, towards the tunnel required cleaning. . ' , " Mangorei Riding—Tin-. top end of the r Kent road had broken up very 'badly, |; and he recommended an extia 100 yards e of stone for this portion. Sixty extra yards of metal would be required for 1 maintenance on the Carrington . road t before the crusher got tlnere. J. H. 1 Ma gee offered to supply this at 8s (id 'J per yard. Waitara, Riding.—Haskell and Co. had | \ not yet completed their contract at t Mahoetahi owing to bad weather. The ,f crushing plant had only crushed 3iio ] yards this month. The road leading \ from the pit was very soft and cut up j badly in wet weather. The roller had t been engaged in scarifying and rolling ? on the Devon line. About lio chains of 1 road had been scarified, re-laid and roll- i ed in. J. H .Magec had completed his contract, 011 Egmont road. A. Cowling j 1 had mailjs a start with King road eon- 1 tract recently taken over from C. Ken- | 1 da 11. Bridge-foreman 11. George had '■ 1 completed tarring the steel ibridge, j . Sentry Hill. j 1 Om.ita Riding.—The portion of Sealv 1 ] road unmet ailed was 08 chains and was |t very bad in places. To metal this he 11 estimated the cost at £2(18. Eight. 1 chains on tile I owe 1 end was iit a bad 1 state. The recent had weather had in- 1 terfored with the work of the county very much. Several of the roads had broken up very badly, the Kent and Al- 1 bcrt roads especially. 1 The recommendations of the inspector : regarding the Mangorei riding were : adopted. Willi , regard to the Omata riding, it was decided to expend £2O in metalling Scaly road, provided that the settlers conirilnilo. £lO towards the cost, ; The Council agreed to pay Mr. J. Maee 1 'llls lid per annum for the right to take | water from 'll is dam to the. trough at Omata. from the. date of the installation of the trough, . It was decided to instruct all the fore- j men to put in all their spare time in blinding metal 011 their respective sections of road. CONTRACTS. Mr. A. .1. Doneh wrote for permission to transfer his contract for metal supplies from Clark's pit to Messr.-, Rowan ,and Thomason. and t.li.e latter asked the Council to transfer their Mangamitl and Tariki road contract to Doueli. —Agreed to. Mr .0. Kendall asked leave to transfer his King road contract to Mr. A. W, Cowling.—Agreed to. A DISPUTED REFUND. The town clerk of New Plymouth applied for a refund of the sum of £(i paid to the Council hy Air, Tribe for the formation of Norman street, Yogeltown. The street having since been merged into the liorough of New Plymouth, and the. work in question not having been done, the cost of the formation would fall on the Borough Council, and this being >o. the. Council considered that the money paid over by Air. Tribe should be contributed towards the cost of tlio work. Mr. Tribe wrote in reference to his application (which was before the Council at its last meeting) for a refund of the sum in quest ion. He pointed out that the Council in its reply ro Ms previous application had said that as the matter was taken into consideration in the adjustment with tire borough of Xew Plymouth the Council could not grant his' request. If this were so. he would ask the Council to grant, liini permission to examine the adjustment- accounts. In answer to a letter he hud addressed to the Borough 'Council, the town ,-lerk had said thai in the adjustment no special mention 'had been uw.de of 1 he .CO in question. The chairman slated thai, the matter had been taken info account, at the time of the niljusniciit, and n-ilher the town clerk nor Mr. Tribe could claim a refund. It was decided |o reply to the Council and to .Mr. Tribe accordingly. THE KAIPI ROAD. Mr. IT. Trimble (chairman of the Moa Roail Hoard) wrote that only one tender had been received for tie.- work mi the Kaipi road, that of Messrs Swan nnd Thomason. at ."is ,">d per yard, for gravel from Witling's pit on the Egmont road for repairing the old gravel and for the hill near Mr. Price's property, and at (is -per yard for metal from O'Shnug'hii' ss/'s pit for the hill near Mr. Berry'-. This Mr. Trim-Me worked out at a total cod', of USS Ku Sd, and as there was. only £O-1 available, and the settlers stipulated thai the £lll raised by theiii should he spent in repairs, lie I recommended tli.it milv one of tho hills should be done, and that (lie whole of 1 he balance should be spent" in repairing j |ho. old metal. Tfe was. however, quite willing to fall in with any other siig- ■ gestion 111 Council iniiilit make, and he was indiH'rmit as- to which' of the hills was metalled. The inspocior was iii-striK'ted to consult the s,,| Hits inlei istcd as (0 Which of the Ml!:- should i, • metalled, . lIETA ROAD AHAIX. Mr. T. S. ReiiiiliKiui. Deputy Public Trustee, wrote with reference to (liu e Tleta road, stating that, lie was in coni- -. mimical ion with the Reserves Agent nt Tfaweri. with n Tiew !o having ei--1 quiries made as to what: should be done (- I in the mailer. a V Mr. Benoni White wrote, tluit Mr. Barns, the district of the Pu'.lie

Trustee, was arranging to go over the road with him with the object of preparing a report on the mailer. MANGOREI ROAD. Mr. Benoni White wrote with reference to the petition of September, 11112, for linking up the two detached metalled portions of the Mangorei road (kept before the Council from time to time) and submitted that- the petitiowrs now considered the time, specially opportune to press their claims. It was decided to remind Mr. White of the Council's previous suggestion—that the settlers of tlr? district should raise a loan for the purpose. PLYMOUTH ROAD LOAN", It was decided to sfrike a special rate of %d in the £ over the special rating area in the Okalo riding, to secure a loan of £OOO for m'tailing Upper Plymouth road. DEPUTATIONS. Mr. Atkinson, of l.iltl,- and Atkinson, of ScnlrOlill. waited on the Council in answer to its request for a license fee of £11! per annum for heavy Irallie ou the county road. lie pointed out that their traflic was only over about three riiains of n. county road, from the mill to the station, nnd th? fee. asked seemed rather large.—Left to the chairman, to confer with Messrs Little and Atkinson. Mr. Julian attended the yieeting with a. request that he be allowed to take.] 8001) yards of boulders from the Waiwakaiho river for a contract, which he had taken under the Whangamomona Conn- i ty Council, lie. also asked to lie allow- J ed to set up his crusher on the Coun- ! cil's site near the river.—The request was refused, as the Council is in iK'od i of all; the,stone from that river. GENERAL. . The county inspector submitted an estimate of the damage done to the Carrington road by timber trallic. during the past month, amounting to £8 (is.—The estimate will be sent to Mr. Simons. Mrs. On lilt, of Inglewoo'd, forwarded I 10s to pay for a bucket and chain to ' lie used at the horse trougli. which has been placed on the Zig-zag' at Tarala. — The matter will be attended to. Messrs Murray. Roberts and Co. wrote with reference to the new road roller, stating that they had received a cable .from Messrs Marshall. Sons and Co., Ltd., that shipment eould not be made until the middle of January. They 'expected that this latest delay was due to the upsetting of the departure of the New Zealand steamers from London in #h« early stages of tile New Zealand strike. The Controller anil Auditor-General wrote that the payment of the chairman's expenses, to which exception had been taken by the Audit Office, had now been legalised by the Counties Aet Amendment Act which had just been passed, and councils 'had now power to pay their chairmen lixed expenses up 1 to' CIOO per annum, and such power was , retrospective from April, 1912. He thanked the chairman and the clerk for their courteous assistance in the matter. The Department of Lands and Survey wrote with reference to the. Council's enquiry as to whether any assistance would be given to the county in regai'd to making a survey of some reserves granted to the county. He stated that the reserves in question had been held by the Council for. 30 years, and the. Council had been drawing a revenue from tlivm during the greater part of the time. The Department could not. see its way to take any aeI tion in the matter. The surveys existing when the Council took over the lands were sufficient for its requirements then.

Accounts amounting to £BOB Is 5d were passed for payment, being made up as follows:—Moa riding, £17!) 18s 2d; Mangorei riding, £ll2 las 3d; Waitara riding, £247 Its !id; Omata riding, £4B 13s Id; Okato riding, £sl 14s 4d; general expenses. C 257 lis lOd. iStafe-