LOANS TO FARMERS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1940, Page 9

LOANS TO FARMERS

HAWERA COUNTY ACTIONj "There is a lot of mi.sconcept.ion over these loans for farmers' cottages." said Cr. J. B. Murdoch, chairman of the Hawera Countv Council, at a council meeting yesterday. Although the property was a security for the loan, there would be little likelihood of there being any call upon it, he continued, since the council, the assessor and the U°j»ns Board would in turn have to agree that there was a good security for the loan. "There is no risk even in the care of the security being called upon, for "there must, have been good security for the loan to have been approved in the first place," he stated, adding that he thought that any objections. which were raised were caused because the objectors had overlooked that these loans were primarily raised to benefit the scheme for increased production. The motion he put forward was that 1 t.he council should apply to the Local Govern ment Loans Board for its sanction to the borrowipg of the sum of £50()U for making advances to farmers to enable them to build cottages for farm workers. It was seconded by Cr. W. Rothery and carried. The meeting thanked the Normanby, Turuturu and Te Roti schools for their work in the planting of trees at Bretts' corner, and the clerk, Mr. J. W. Harding. was instructed to convey the appreciation of the council to those schools and to Mr. Rod Syme, the primary school' agricultural instructor, who had done so much work in that direction. The control of Californian thistle was discussed, Cr. Murdoch commenting that it was not a dangerous weed. Cr. T. A. Winks: It is not the danger some people make it out to be. Cr. G. W. Williamson: I think that the ranger should be empowered to see that the thistles are cut on level country. Cr. Winks: If we were to look after gorse better it would be far more use. "Callies" will look after themselves. Cr. Williamson's suggestion was adopted. Correspondence was reeeived from the Hawera Main school committee asking authority for the erection — at ^ the expense of people in the locality— of a roadside shelter for children who were waiting for the school bus in inclement weather. The shelter, they proposed, should be on Whareroa Road, near Main South Road intersection, on the Mokoia side of the road. Permission was granted, and the county engineer, Mr. F. Muggeridge, was instructed to determine the best position for the shelter. The council is to be allowed a highways grant of £7053 for maintenance, improvement and construction. The engineer reported that a considerable amount of work had been done in cleaning out water-tables, banking shoulders and patching with metal and cold emulsion. In the Mokoia and Ararata ridings slips had been cleared and scrub cut back and the grader had planed the surface on the Tawhiti deviation. ^ Applications to take in "Little Britons" had been reeeived from 43 homes, and recommendations had been sent to the central committee.