COUNTY AFFAIRS
MEETING OF MASTERTON COUNCIL. MT. BRUCE PLANTATION FIRE. A meeting of the finance committee of the Masterton County Council was. held this morning, the chairman oi the finance committee, Councillor H. H. Mawley, presiding. The treasurer reported a debit in the County Fund Account, as at June 30 of £7987. The Bridges Loan Account £14,000, was in credit £1238. Receipts since the last meeting totalled £6562. Of that sum £2156 represented Main Highways subsidies and £2626 heavy traffic fees received for allocation. Subsidies outstanding and due from the Main Highways Fund and the Public Works Fund, as at June 30, totalled £1412.
Accounts amounting to £6872 were recommended for payment.
The chairman, Mr Gordon Lee and the County Clerk. Mr J. C. D. Mackley, were appointed to represent the council at the annual, meeting of the New Zealand County Councils Industrial Union of Employers, to be held in Wellington on Friday, July 28. The following tenders were accepted: P. Solon and Co.. Napier, for the construction of the Taueru Rivei bridge at 4.5 miles on the MastertonStronvar Main Highway; McCalmont Bros., Masterton, for a bridge near Longridge at 8.1 miles on the Master-ton-Stronvar Main Highway; Rhodes and McPherson, Masterton, for the construction of the Wangaehu Stream bridge at 55 chains on the MastertonStronvar main highway.
Councillors P. R. Welch, J. W. Colquhoun and the Clerk, Mr Mackley reported that Mr J. Campbell Junr. had settled the council's claim for restoring the plantation at Mt. Bruce which was damaged by fire some weeks ago,' Mr Campbell having undertaken to paj £135 in full satisfaction of the claim. They also reported that arrangements had been made for the felling and clearing of the portion of the pinus insignis plantation damaged by the fire and for the replanting of the area.
The council decided to write to the Masterton Fire Brigade expressing its thanks for the prompt manner in which it had met the request of the County Clerk to proceed to the fire at the roadman's cottage at Bideford.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1939, Page 7
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