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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1918, Page 3

Thirds' proposal- hnre beerf prepared •n cliinlicate and submitted to the Land Pram for approval. The epidemic h.i?i temporarily deprived the counr-il of a number of their rmrmanpnt stiff, other? liave leen acting a« hospital 'istant l ?, whilst various Natives wfio lately beep by the council >n different capacities, have succumbed, nurl tV work throughout the county worallv has been disorganised. The report was adopted, < OOPJIESPONDEKCE. Percy Darke wrote pointing out the urgent need for something being done to the Okoke Iload. He stated he had lived at his present residence lor 24 years, and the last inile of road approaching the place was still nSthing but a dangerous sleigh track. The temporary bridge Ijy Mr. Gibson's was, in tho writer's opinion, dangerouu, and liable to be carried away, and the rest of the road to the store was in a shocktngly bad and dangerous condition. He suggested that, as the surfaceman was unlikely to be able to work for some time, the settlers should fls: up the worst places. "Each year," the writer continued, "sees less settlers in here, and I am afraid, if tilings are not altered, we shall til have to give up." The question a reply to the letter was left in the hands of the clerk and engineer.

-Mr. W. T. Jennings, 'I.P., forwarded a letter ho had received from the Minister for Public Works, in which tiie Hon. Sir William Fraser stated that the matter of the Nikorima Pvoaa'd loan proposal would receive consideration when tho Estimates were being prepared.

It was pointed out that a vote of '£ for £ up to .£350 had been provided for the road. The Minister for Public Works also wrote, in reply to the clerk's application for subsidies amounting to £7500 for metalling purposes, stating that he could not make a commitment to the extent asked for, but that provision had been made in the Estimates for a number of roads in the Clifton County.

A further communication frotr. the same "Department intimated that with reference to a decision made in respect to the standard wage to be paid for labor on Government subsidised work, Cabinet had now decided that an additional bonus of Is per day was to be paid to all wage-earners and co-operativo ""axkers throughout the Dominion. "nhlia bodies were, therefore, asked -U ward 12s per day (instead of lis) as % "Mrs' governing the rate of wages in_i<ro-pect. to such works. ■'A copy it tfr.B aWttflrifttal : m<>& W