CASTLEPOINT COUNTY COUNCIL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10682, 31 July 1912, Page 3

CASTLEPOINT COUNTY COUNCIL

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Castle])!i:nt County Council was held in the CVimty Office, Tinui, Km Sii-tunluv |;;>t. Present, — CoiUnoillons H. M.S. Rycicr (chairman), D. H. Speedy, (!. 11. Innes, J. Lenraio, 0. T. Richard son, and A. C. Fihner. A telegram -ins received from Or J. Hudson, regretting his 'inability to at/tend, owing to the fl'coclcd state ici the river. Correspondence was received from— The Public Works Department, acknowledging receipt of appl-idt'ion for a, grant in .aid (£ for £) of £IOOO for expenditure with the proposed loan if £IWX), l'n extending the MnstertonAVaimata Road towards (lie m.::uth of the ■Mlata'ikonn River; amd also acknowledging receipt of the Council'.' protest 'again,-1 the handing over to ili»m of the Laaig a xload in itr.' proen d dilapidated condition. i;l,e Superintendent of the State Guaranteed Advances Office, prov•sioiisillv approving of -the application •for a loan, of £901) for reconstructing th.? Hangman's over the Maiigapakeha, stmun, and of the hm'i . of £IOOO for fornfnrg and met a k nig ,„, extension of the M.ar,terton-Wa:-m-'ta road between Wbnkatak. ant Mataikona. The Clerk having point*! out mo or two• dlceropanuos between the terms of the Provisional Approval , and theso of the 'ratepayers' petition, the Counciil- instructed him to confer with the presenter of the pet. t-on before proceeding further in the

matter. • . . The Marine Department, advw'ina; that the siwn of £'2so would be paid into the Council's County Fund account to meet the cos'V>f the enlarge ni-Mi, of the landing shed, and the? extension of the jetty, at Cashpoint, which had beeiv inspected and 'found to have been carried, out in accordance with the iplans and specification*. The Conmniwioner of Crcivn Lands, iiint, ; ;mating that in" view of the improvements? lately made to the C'astfleppiut landing shed, it would be necessary to take out an insurance policy covering /the building .for a sum of £2so';

The Department of A&rk-ulturo, inviting suggestions from Local Bodies a:;, to the beet means of encouraging afforetta'tion, and asking for an expression of opinion on a proposal to exempt pHantations- from- rates. - Mr R. L. Langdon, ex-councillor for the 10\st Riding, requeuing to be with certain dates and minutes of meetings v.i connection with the sale to the Council of tho,Ngapopatu gravel .pit, the consideration for whieh"hc had wli-ila-sti.il a member of the Council. The Clerk explained that the information- Jud already -been supplied, and 'tint in a.-vswo'r to a telfegram ho had informed th-3 .Auditor that the agreement to purchifi* had bee'n entered into prior to his becoming a Councillor. Mr J. 11. Rarty wrote, statng that lie 'liad filled in. a drain on his land. >vhk-h was a hindrance to op-rations. The Clerk was inyLructed ' to' dirr.w his attention 1 to the impropriety of his mode of preceding, and < to inform him tlii.it the drain might be diverted, if done to the satisfaction of the road overseer.

Mr D. Bennett wrote to point o«' : the serious resiiltli to ariio if the- «;'f.4\v& M-ere not. cleared out fr;iY>. tte banks'and bed (A '&& WWu>k. River. The Council . considered tk't the matter n'ecded its earliest consideration, and instructed the Clerk to investigate, certain questions and ibring up the imatteH' again, at the next monthly meet'kig.

in compilia'noe with the I from T. Tea-h'.\n, roadman on the -Mnn : I oapakcha action of the. .main road, who is leavine the employ of the Council, a K r«,v.t of £C was made ns compensation for improvements winch he lwd effected to th.o cottage he had occupied. - . Applications were received from two employees for pownission to run their horses on the road.— The Uerk was directed to inform, them that *ho Oounml'a employees are permitted to have at hJrge on' the road only tflto horse's thev have need in travelling to their work, art* those only during the t : <me tluey arc actually at work. The estimates .for the eunrent year were then considered, and after a :itifle pruning and trimming, it was a.rood to, blowing jutes: -For the North »- 1 1-1 M ;" ,'til. >£; Soutii Eliding J ll {h East IMing, Id ira the £; West Hiding, H-d in-ilhe £.