COUNTY COUNCIL.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4730, 5 March 1884, Page 2

COUNTY COUNCIL.

The usual monthly meeting of the above Council was held this afternoon. Present: Cr3 Brodie (in the Chair), Bagnail, Bull, Coutts, Deeble, and Murdoch.

The minutes of previous meeting were ' read and confirmed, and a resume of the outward correspondence was read over. Vouchers for £765 15s, second payment under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act; £210 15s sd, subsidy towards goldfields tracks ; aud £203 17s 4J, goldfields revenue, were received. The following reports were laid on the table:— WATER RACE COMMITTEE. Your Committee has the tionor to make the following recommendations :—i. Thai; when the petitioners for a domestic supply of water, to be laid in Sealey and Franklin streets, pay to the Treasurer one third of the estimated cost of the work as rates in advance, the Surveyor be empowered to proceed with it. 2. That the directors of the Queen of Beauty Company be charged foi% and at the rate of nine pounds (£9) per week, for three sluice heads of water for thsir pump, commencing from the Ist of April next ensuing. The supply to continue during the pleasure of the Council on these terms, and that no charge be made for the water supplied since the formation of the company.—Alex. Bbodie, Chairman.

BOARD OF WOEKS. Your Board have the honor to recommend as follows :—l. That the Surveyor be instructed to estimate the cost of repairing the footpath in Fen ton street, and your Board to hare power to act thereon. 2. The surveyor to be instructed to ascertain to what extent the settlers benefitted by the Hauraki road will assist in placing metal on it. 3. The Surveyor's recommendation to expend the balance of the Council's vote upon the Kauaeranga road in metalling the worst parts between the termination of the present contract and the Orphanage, be adopted. 4. The Surveyor be authorised to expend £10 in repairing the Paeroa Junction road. 5. That the penalty of £36, incurred by Patrick Trainor on the Kauaeranga road contract, be enforced. —Alex. Brodie, Chairman.

HIKUTAIA BEANCH EOAD

The Engineer reported as follows on the road from tho Hikutaia landing to the main road: —I would recommend that the present drain be enlarged and deepened, and the material from the drains be used in the formation of a road which would be passable for cattle and pack horses, and at the same time be portion of a permanent road. The distance is about 300 chains, and it would cost about £100*—Alex. AITKEN." ■ LETTEES WERE BECEIVED FfiOM—» E. Comer, offering to purchase for £2, all the condemned mine rope lying on the Moanatairi tramway.—Resolved that the Engineer be authorised to dispose of it, provided that it belonged to the Council. The Minister of Lands, agreeing to set apart gravel reserves on the main Obinemuri road, if the Council showed on a map the various pieces of land suitable. — Eesolved that the information asked for be forwarded.

[Left Sitting.]