Wairarapa North County.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3011, 24 September 1888, Page 2

Wairarapa North County.

thoJOpuncil WDS.leldon;Saturdays Ptei6ht—The. Chairman"; ;;;and Crs OliamberlainS..:, .■ -";';' ■''■•- ■■■■•■. ■•' ;:-'--The Qiinu.tes-of;the:laot; ordinary and special meeting, were confirmed, was read and id.ealt with as follows•: •••'- A"■■ ■*>-*-'■ :AJPUOATIOH FOB ÜBBOF OFFIOE, ~An application froni Mr T, Mackay, for the use of an office in tho Council Cha'iflbers'fbi'' tKe purposeiof : property tax. valuations was granted free of ohai'gei'

■ ■•.'.';;• ALFIU3DTON ROAD BOAKD, . ;'■ An offer was made by; the Alfredion Board to contribute £35 towards forming theTirnumoa Road providing the County Council would contribute J570t0 the work. • , . ■■j'-', ' The' Engineer said there, was only MO placed] 1 on,'} the estimates for repairs to : Jthe Tirautnea' track.) That sura was aVyet' uriexpended/but at least repairs, 'and that" would leave only £30.; ;f:"- : >V/?\ ■"~7-> ; ;:Cr ; Ypn Merf' moved}.. Or •Elder seconded that the jAlfredton.;EoauV Board 1 be informed that the- Council can only provide £3O to supplement the £35 which they offer, andihe Council hope that the Board will give tho sum' they ir.tended for the work, the work to be undertaken at once if the answer is favorable'^—Carried. \ . ; .' \> MASTEHTON-wMatA IIOAD,-.': Messrs Whatman; Bros! wrote; in to;ithb by• the Council ot aieotibn J of land for road, deviation thjgthey;would require to be piiid;for'th¥existihg fencing at the ratebf 25s per chain. ~ The Engineer'said the section contained: aboutifour\tipre3,,and it would make a very good site for a roadman's whare, The cost,;ihpluding fencing, would be ab'Out LlO. per acre. ■:■* The demand was agreed t0.".'.. : Mr T. Mackay the valuer appointed by the Council to arrange with Mrfi. J, Pitton, valuer fon Mr Yallaijce. reported upon the land taken for road diviation atKahumingi, that the value had been agreed upon at £5 an aero, the Council to pay for the removal of the fence.

. The roport was adopted. ' ' , TIMBER DISPUTE, The Clerk to the Castlopoint Road Board wroto, stating the Board refused to admit its liability for the sum of £ls, the value of titnbel used in the Timii bridge, Or Maunsell explained that at the time the repairs ;to the bridge Veto dono a quantity of timber that bad beon sent up for culvert purposes used temporarily as an approaoh to the bridge where the deviation had scoured away, was taken to do the bridge repairs by the Board. The Council had not sanctioned the use of that timber, and now demanded payment for jit. The work ( however, was. done on a County road, and was urgent at the time, and, he under the circumstances, the matter need - net be pushed,-They were 'willing to pay for the 500 feet of new timber'used. i .'. : f: .' \ \"? '' , ,;. Cr ■ Ohftmb'orjain said the Council M its last, meeting agreed, to settle the dispute, ty accepting the sum of £l9 anihe asked if the Castlep'oint Board wanted to-repudiate £ls'out of that sum. -Tho claim was stated to be a just one, and for that reason the Board ought to pay it, ■ ... . The Chairman said it was only; a question. whether: .the Oastfopoint Board should : pay the amount or the Biding be;debited with 1 , it;. Tho Board had been very liberal in the past in voting sums for expenditure on 'the county road, and he did not think .it was a good ipblioy to, stand out. for that small,; sujm..\There bad evidently, been a misunderstanding at the last meeting, .: : ; : : v.., After some further discussion it waß agreed to forego the claim; DEPUTATION. The Mayor and Town Clerk waited upon the .Council in respect to Charitable Aid. ■

'' The Chairman said the North Wairnrapa Benevolent Sociaty was now defunct: and it was necessary for tbe local bodies to make some arrangements to cany on the relief of tbe poor in their district. ■ ■' ■ '•.'■ The Mayor asked if the Benevolent Society had actually resigned or only threatened. ; The Chairman said they had, but tbe Chairman agreed to carry on the work of relief in conjunction with the • Secretary until the local bodies made arrangements for taking over the affairs of the Society, . Of von Reden thought, it, a very good thing to let tho Society go dofun'ct. ' They would then have no poor to support. Cr Chamberlain .said they would have to pay for the support; of the poor all the same. The Clerk explained that tbe action of the Benevolent Society in dissolving itself placed the County and ough Councils in a vory peculiar posi- , in regard to their recent action in re- ; fusing to contribute , to the United , District Aid Board. The Councils had no power to appoint a distributing [ body,; nor. disbnrse v ckarity direot/and I he would strongly 'recommend that I the Benevolent Society be induced to . continue their functions until the end , oftheyeai', when fresh Trustees could i be elected, "■'' i "The Chairman said' the clause in I the Charitablo Aid Act providing for I filling vacancies in the ofiico of Truatee 1 cbnld be broiight r into, force by ihe Chairman'oi the Society, and he could ; fill the vacancies with-honunoes of the Council._;:\ " : ■''/'.'.•,. '"•; '■■■ -V ;'' The Mayor said the Clause in the Act never contemplated suchapositiori ias ' the present, wh6ro: all the members ' had resigned. He would like to know who they had resigned to. They 1 were a body corporate. .;, Or Daggsaid the Council couldlrefuse their resignation, but they had no power either way, as they were not ' appointed by the Council. •,'' : - - ' ; "After some disoussiOn it..was;ro- ' on'. :the■', motion of Or Yon ; Keden,'that; this, Council has no ' power, to accept the resignation of tho ! Benevolent Society, and that they be 1 asked to continue their functions, tlio ' Oquncil to provide a srim of £2s.'per ' month for poor tho' Borough ; Council to'payitsproportionateshare, to continue in force 'until' thp;'matter .: indisputa.between the Government and the local contributing bodieu M i settled. ?:,' : . ;' : "..---' ; W-: V : ".''s; : il'lie Mayor and the; County Chair'; ; man were appointed to wait 'upon, the i Benevolent Society-with a ; copy of the >. forqgoingresolutions,; vj.; ; -;j; B--1 - > Aletter was.re.ad : from; the;, Secrej t ta'ry:of the Benevolent Society, apply; !• tfif j. I iSooiety fbriistribiiting IMeKtift the [ JJ^n^el^second^df raotiou [ jr | liie|tplel|ule9tiniia« maum

oaly3br^a!i^ayjiass Bba^meihthat:^^ bers 1 : belonged :;tb?Vbte|ibodjeß^i;flo3,; niovod ; that ;tjio|Cpiinc| : '|djqijr ; n;^ iin hour: tp t ettable certa^m>nibMtoi| attond>-a Vspecial^j^eti^^of^lieNS Road BoSrd/T'he motion^ and* thfl? raeetinaw adJMrnediSnti]";; , t for rdad.formatiou.andlmetallin^"bn)i : part Masterton-Waimnta road : werV;. dealt with':—John Anderson I+llo9 17s'8d;: inform>l ; Lll 64 2s 6d, accepted;Jonn.Killeher ,:<; L 1207' 13b,- declined; M. SlianaHaii,r'v L 1207 13s 9d; Pat Scally, PatiCarr, Ll4lß 9s 8d- • Gardner fc Co,, L 1447 Ms 3d; Britt & Oatneronv'; JulGlO4s9d. :;.;.:< . ■_.;• plansj&c. .^\i' ; i^--^. It: was resolved ■■ to ; inform ' Mrt Fannin in reply to his(application;that ';. ' any offlce;work the Council niight." require 1 dbnelff s WellißgpPhß'f6Uld ;5 "; be; ntformed or^y^i-tivtxj.fM'aS in lis|i|flcl^ ; r| L '|'|; ;> ■■ |roin tlieMe|funa|RlialJßpard:|-A : :; [legal ohmion f ; efet'tiiitl the )ax;cbujdl!nl)t'|3lpv. jposed inXon^Vpart T oflifie ; nbt v 'ikHhe'dwet^ ;u \ThsHa~ct*h^ : liear.T.put in force at one time in the county biiohe did not know thatithad worked, satisfactorily. •;, ;-..v : - : ■'': .':..■ Cr Chamberlain thoiight. the .Act should not be brought into force, ''■, ■; Cr von Bedenstated .the, dogs in his district were rapidly "increasing, and were becoming a .dangerousnuisance, and ..detrimental, to sheep farmors. Frequent complaints wero : made of sheep being worried, and many useless curs had gone wild. ; ■-, Or Chamberlain'moved Eldur seconded, that the' request of Mr J. Stuokey.and the Ekotakuna Boad Board be not acceded to.— Cairied. / ''-.; ;',:'.!./", f ■ i'. ■

'• ' THE yiSHERIES iiiLlj. : A copy of the Fishories Bill received from tlie Marine > merit with a request that it be repor-.: ted upon,—Referred to the Welling-: ton Acclimatisation Society.

FINANCE COMMITTEE. :■ The Treasurer reported a Mmh . balance of £939 19s fid; receiptssinco Ist August, £1491 6s Id. Accounts as per time sheet amounting to £263 18s8d were passed for payment. ,;...•' It was" recommended that authority .•";.'. be given to Cr Handysido "to expend : . : the sum of £35 in repairing a portion .• ■ '■ of the Masterton-Waimata Boad, A request by Cr von Beden to. be ; allowed to expend the sum of £5 on ■'; '' i', repairs to the Eketahuna Soad was - 'l ordered to stand over till the u next•.'■"-"■ meeting of the Council. ' : : ; '\,i The Council was recommended 1 to v ' grant the sum of £lO towards the vconstruction of a poumhtt Eketahuna,;' v; on; condition/ tljat (thej <EJielanuna"' : ; Boad Board provided'tKo remainder. ")fi It was resolved that the Clerk get ;: forthwith the title of sub-section 9 ,of ' • section 22, Block VI, Mangaone, ':•■'.'(■ executed by Mr MoLachlanat once. , ■<■■'•" i-' The Council were ■•;',-'.. comply with the application ;osr;-^ :.?. I'aplin to construct an enclosure tthe Taiieru in which to place stools; Wnd . y : straying on the road at night until they can be placed in v tlie, pound, - The Committee recommended that; i; the Council accep); the; £100;. lodged ,■; l|y Britt aud Cameron in lieu of ; . surities for the due performance of . : : contracts Nos 34 and 35 on the Mas- s tettbn-Waimata road. An allowance of 12s each man was made to Messrs Montgomery and. ' Westbrook for time lost in 1887. WOODYILLE-TIKAUMEA KOAD DOAKD,

The Clerk reported, that he had prepared a special order in accord: ance with the resolution of the Council at its last meeting. This' order,'if passudiiby the Council, would . have to be confirmed in a month's time. By that time the proposed now district would bo out of tho tho jurisdiction of tho North Wairarapa County Council. The AcMid not appear to provide for anew'Ay taking over the business'of its preaecessor, and he did not know, wrjhput taking legal advice, whether the confirmation of the order would have to bo mado by the North Wairarapa County Council or the uow Pahiatua County,;.' ... ■ / i _. f , ., Cr'lJagg moral tbat.'a 'special order, constituting Woodville-Tiraumea a separato Road District, in accordance' with the petition of certain- residents and ratepayers be mado. Mr Maunsell seconded the motion which was carried. The Engineer's report was adopted and tho meeting adjourned,