MAURICEVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9078, 30 April 1908, Page 7

MAURICEVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL.

The monthly meeting of the Mauriceville County Council was held on Saturday./ There were present:— Crs Wall, Perry, Jackson, and Heckler. Cr Heckler was voted to the chair, in the absence of the County Chairman.

The District Health Officer wrote regarding continuing the services of *he sanitary inspector. Mr P. L. Larson asked that a slip might be cleared away, and handrails placed on the bridges on Mt. Munro Road West.

The overseer reported that a traction engine had broken a culvert and some pfanlcs of u bridge on Mauriceville North Road.

The secretary of the District Hospital Board wrote stating that, at a recent meeting of his Board, the increasing demands made on local bodies for Hospital maintenance am) Charitable 'Aid was discussed, and the suggestion was made that this aspect of the matter should be more prominently brought before those who have to contribute. With this object in view the Council was asked to consider the advisability of striking a separate rate, and thus indicate to each ratepayer the amount of his contribution.—Councillors appeared to think that the proposed alteration in levying the rates would not be likely to have much effect.

A case of scarlet fever was. reported from Ihuraua Valley. The matter of employing extra horses for the carts hauling metal on Jackson's Road was left to Cr Jackson to deal with.

Attention was directed by Cr Jackson to the hollows in the road where the Mauriceville Lime Company's siding crosses, and the clerk was instructed to notify the Company to put this part of the road in order, in compliance with their agreement. It was resolved that steps be taken to prevent the blocking of the mouth of the largo culvert at Mr Jorgen Nielsen's, on the Mauriceville North Road, and tnat other defective culverts near this should be attended to.

The Clerk reported that Miss Kirk, the Charitable Aid Board's Inspector, had no alteration to suggest in the Council's methods of dispensing charitable aid, except that she had found it inadvisable to supply provisions in large quantities, as, with, improvident people, it tended to waste. The proposal of the overseer to place the Council's horse, and dray in charge of Adolph Larsen, and to employ W. Dickens on roads in the East Riding, was approved. An increased length of road will be placed in chaige of W. Budd. Accounts amounting to £164 10s 7d were passed for payment.