Government Grant.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4410, 21 February 1883, Page 2

Government Grant.

The Chairman of the County Council has received a communication from the Government, the contents of which are as follows :—

" Public Works Office. Wellington, 14th Feb., 18S3.—Sir,—With reference to the Thames County Council's application under Part I. of ' The Roads and Bridges Construction Act, 1882/ for £41,682 —for the purpose of constructing the roads mentioned in your letter of the 13th December last—l am now directed by the Minister for Public Works to inform you that owing to your non-com-pliance with the Act in reference to plans, &c, he regrets being unable to accede to your request except in the matter of metalling, which amounts to £30,757, and is made up from your estimates as fol lows:—]9| miles metalling, £9360, and reformation for metal, £975, Grahamstown to Ohiuemuri road; metalling and re-formation, £7462, Ohinemuri towards Te Aroha; and metalling and re formation, £12,960, Ohinemuri towards Eadkati. Totil, as p?r margin, £30.757. The application as reduced to this last mentioned aniount, subject to tLe conditions of ihe Act, will be graced to the extent of three-eighths of the same,, say (£11535) eleven thousand fire hundred and thirty-four pourds, which wjll be available as soon as the County has complied with the requirements of the Act, As the amount granted is less than the sum asked fo: 1, the Minister, in <erms of Section 38, will be glad to confer-with the County Council with a view of providing for the completion of some portion of the works for which the money, was applied for, "in order to insure, that the expenditure shall be beneficial.— I have, &c, C. T. Benzoni, Assistant Under-Secretavy for Public Works."

Section 38 of the A?t referred to provides that if there sh.ill not be sufficient funds to the credit of the accounts, from which grants are made under the Koads and Bridges Corstructibn Actr, to satisfy applications made, grants shall be made pro ra-a from the funds available to tue bodies applying for assistance in the proper form. Steps are being taken to enable the sura voted to be at once obtained.