GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2285, 26 November 1891, Page 3

GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL.

i i A special meeting, the ordinary monthly i meeting, and the statutory annual meeting of the Geraldine County Council were held yesterday. Present Messrs W. Balfour (chairman), J. Talbot, W, B. Howell, R. Mackay, and M. Quinn, Ordinary business was also taken. “Special orders,” with the statutory formalities, were passed (1) constituting the Levels Downs water supply district on petition of the ratepayers. (2) Making the necessary special rate on the Waitohi water supply district to secure payment of interest on the loan of £3OOO obtained from the Government. The rate is £d in the £, payable on the Ist of May in each year for 26 years. (3) Making new byelaws for the regulation of traction-engine traffic on roads and bridges. WATER RACES. The presiding officer reported the result of the poll in the Waitohi district, as in favor of the loan, 100 votes being given for, and only 1 against it, the total vote being 128. The engineers reported as follows : “ Waitohi.—The works of Contracts 1 and 2 are virtually completed, and the water is now running through all the races satisfactorily. It will be necessary to appoint a ranger. The contractor for No. 2 contract purposes asking the council to allow him for the items of flumes and 9 inch pipes, which he omitted from his tender, on the ground that he was delayed in the completion of his contract ■' by non-delivery of water to him. As the matter now stands all the flumes and 250 feet of 9 inch pipes have been executed by the contractor without payment. We do not recommend the council to make this allowance, but at the same time we would be glad to hear the council had paid for the omitted items as an act of grace. The total value of the works so omitted is £66 15s. The total value of the works executed according to contract, omitting . these items, is £636 17s Bd. We are not able to state the total cost of No. 1 contract for head race, as several items are yet unfinished, and we have not yet squared accounts with the contractor. We estimate, however, that the work will be executed within the contract price of £1343. “ Seadown—We laid off the race applied for by Mr Humphrey, Marshall, and others. There is a general desire to let the work stand over until after the harvest.” In a conversation on the Waitohi work Mr Talbot said as far as he could make out, the works and land, and all sundries, amounted to about £2BOO, out of the loan of £3000; little enough had been asked - for, Mr R. Calvert waited on the council to urge that he should be paid for the items mentioned by the engineers. Mr Quinn moved, Mr Mackay seconded, and it was carried—“ That Mr Calvert be paid £4B for 1 the fluming, as conpensation for loss of time through waiting for water.” It was decided to advertise for a ranger, i to be paid £45 per annum for three days work a week on the races, besides regulating the water supply at all times. It was suggested that a local committee * should be appointed to supervise the work of the ranger. Mr Humphrey wrote asking to have a race extension through Young’s Creek, and Holwell’s, to section 40, Seadown ] estate. Mr Jos. Grant and himself would do all the work, except finding and fixing pipes across the roadline. Granted subject to the approval of the engineer. 1 The rangers reported all in good order ] and water supplies good. . The chairman brought under the notice of the council the Water Supplies Act of last session, and its requirement of exact ] maps of water races to be prepared and ] deposited at certain public places. The law requires these maps to be lodged within three months from October Ist. Mr Merchant said it would be a physical impossibility to do it in the 1 time, and it would cost a lot of money to ] make plans that could be certified to be correct. j It was decided that the chairman should r consult the solicitor, and that the chair- * man and Messrs Talbot and Quinn should 5 arrange about getting the work done if .j necessary. -j Mr Merchant asked for and was granted a month’s leave of absence. The engineer reported “The Orari i bridge is now completed. The repairs ] effected have made the bridge thoroughly sound and safe for ordinary road traffic, , The black birch planking is very satisfactory in point of quality.” The tender of W. H. Brewer, Temuka, was accepted for supply of dog collars, at prices up to 7 id for largest. There was J no other tender. j The chairman of the Representation Commission, in reply to the council’s suggestion that the Rangitata should be made the northern boundary of the 1 Pareora district, wrote that they found it impossible to adopt the suggestion. J Mr McLeod, butcher, Temuka, wrote explaining that he was having the ( nuisance abated at his slaughteryard piggery. He had been ill or it would been attended to before. A note from the Harbour Board reminded the council that the second instalment of the harbour rate would be * due on Dec. Ist.—The local bodies have been notified. Accounts amounting to £134 12s 2d were passed for payment. At the annual meeting Mr Balfour was unanimously re-elected chairman of the council on the motion of Mr Talbot, seconded by Mr Howell, who, with Mr Mackay, testified to the care and assiduity . with which Mr Balfour attended to the i business of the council. On the motion of Mr Quinn, Messrs J. Jackson, W, M. Moore, J, M. Barker, and J. Talbot were appointed the coun- | oil’s representatives on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board; and Messrs Balfour and Howell on the Timaru High School Board. ■ j

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