TAURANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 2 December 1913, Page 3

TAURANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

C,:y\ ; 'MONTHLY*MEETING. *S 4 { 'The'monthly meeting of the ./ Tauranga County i Council was ' held the'close of the annual •, .meeting on Wednesday last Pre- '< 1 1 sent, Crs H. Southed (Chairman) ' G, V.'Stewart, J. B. Stevenson, "V, C. Lally, M. Sppnce, T. P. v ! ,!Lemon, J. Hume, and E. J. Matthews. > Mr N. Callisier, Te Puke, "wrote, -requesting that an obV:' structjon iii the shape of a willow 7t tree, 'that was growing in the .'centre of the. AVaiari stream be. ' ?■ " He asked'that the i , work be done in an effective .manner, and that the roots grow- ' ; , ing in the bed of the stream be *' , removed ; as well as that portion 'of the tree above the water.-Re- *. ' ceived.,, »>,. Railway Crossings. Vg\, i{ Hon _W. H. Ilerries wired ro i '> ] r'e.Railways Bill and level crossirigs. He stated that the clause ,only refers to future crossings,. /V but he'has struck-it out of the ; Bill, leaving it out for the Railway , K J { Department' to make its own '*7,. arrangements with local bodies -<r,',asking for crossings. \ f t Mr H, Poland,- M. P. wrote, y; acknowledging receipt of tele- ' * 'gram on the same subject. '1$ jirW. P. S. Macdonald, M.P., 1 ' / <forwarded copy of the Bill, as re- ' ft < ported from the Committee. ' \ - The Industrial Trouble. . / >Cr Stewart proposed : Thati •' t this Council congratulates the government on the firm stand f V taken to maintain law and order 1 <;-6» during the present crisis. Sec-' ft ;onded by Cr. Hume and carried. ■; . t'v -Cr Stewart moved: That: this i • Council congratulates and thanks J t the farmers in their noble action u for having, at such great person- & al inconvenience and loss, supported the law of the democracy -U' as*opposed to the unwritten law -.j,, of- agitators. ~Cr Hume ..'seconded. v ' /l l ', '» 'Cr Lally moved an amendment: -«a • That the words "r xl order '"be * that r ' the "following wjrds be deleted a;- r "of the democr?"'- n ■ opposed to ~t '.'Mihe.'iinwritten-'l'Hv ,>c imported : ;-V : agitators. V—Cr Bponce seconded. <3- u" t '/The amendment was carried.