PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2060, 19 September 1885, Page 3

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

Tm: oidm.iry monthly mooting of thn council wa-j lieltl at C unbiiilgo on riiur-d ij afteiniinn. I'ioioiit . Cis. W. L. C. \\ ll liciiiis (ch.iiini.iu), J. C. Firth, E M.icle.m, \V. P. OlioimiclJ, J. U.mld. D. Muipliy and 11. Biunskill.

Encim'.lhs Itniour.— Mr P.iwtt, ingineerTo Atolia riding, submitted his montlily leport on uoiks m the Aroli.i distuct. Jlc had examined that poition of the ni.un road referred to by Mr G. Brown in In-, letter to the council. To make the road ht for cart traffic it would be necessn.iv to make a bridge and embankment across a laigo gully near Mr Koche's house. The water had cut a channel down to the harder stratum about level with the w atei in the Waihou river, and a biidpo could bo made 25ft. loug in the centre of the gully and the embankments irade at each en it with the necessary cutting thunigh tlio terraces for the approaches. The cost would be £130. Re the road near MiBrown's house, it would be necessary to form about ten chain 1 -. This road hcie at present was an impassable swamp. It would also be necessary to erect some mm ill bridgt*. The total cost of tins wmk would be about £(>O. Until the load was nhide Mr Brown could not possibly tiaveis > it and at present he could only got to IV Aroha by tiesjw-sing on his neiglibmn s property. The road in question is, I belli \e, the main road leading to the WaiherekiLi block and would be much used whenem it weie made passable. lie Cl irke's diam Te Aroha, he lecoinniended that the lowei end of the drain be cleai <'d out, and that the road-ide drain on the noith or uppei side of the mam i.oni be cleated out and deepened so as to take a part of the water that now runs throngh Clarkes Kind. The cost would be about £0. Ho had had the bridge at Jansen't. drain erected at a co-t rif £14 18b sd. He had also completed the culvert across the in.iin road on tin; Wan.tka property at a cost of £13 (is Id. .S..ine dangerous places on the main rmd h.id been repaired at a co^t of £112s.—Iles|iLcting the proposed bridge near Mr Blown s house no steps were taken in the m.ittei, the council having no funds to proceed with the work at present. — Re the drain nea,i Clarkes property it was thought that the property holdeiM concerned might by the expenditure of half an horn's labour, do all that was necessary.— Cr. Firth deplored the persistency with which people not only in this conntiy but in all other counti ies referred everj little thing however insigm fii'iint to tho constituted authorities. — Or. Macloan proposed that the mutter be po^pomd for the pre-iunt, theio l>eiu^ no fund-> in hand to do the woik. On the motion of Cr. Firth, Cis. Gould «vnd Chopmoll weie appointed a committee to see Mr Pavitt on the m ittor.

Ro\n Through Wilson's Propgrh.— Itcpucting the taking 1 o£ this load undoi the Public Works Act, a conununic iti m was received from the under-secietary to the effect that the declaration ninth accompanied the memorial on the mattot should havo been stamped with a 2i (id stamp, in term* of section (il of the Stamp Act 1882. The plan <>f the land ;ils<> should be in duplicate, and the des«cn|)tion of the land .should be in the form of a list, and both the plans and the li-t should be certified as correct by the chief suiveyor of the district. It would thercfoio be necessary for the council to comply u lth tho«e i equipments before the proclamation which they asked for could be l-sued.

Hamilton's Contr \ct. —Mr Sandc-*, engineer, certified that Hamilton was entitled to £22 18s 4d on account of his contr.ict on the Cambndge-Tauranga road. T\or\oito\ DhMvnoN.— At the previous meeting of the council some different* aio»e as to the expenditure on the above mad (Cambridge-Tauianga), and the distribution of the cost between the Matamata and Taotaoroa Hidings. The clerk was then instructed to supply the council with all particular* on the matter, al«o to ask the engineer, Mr Sandea, to furni-li a lepoit on the subject. — Ci. Futh K.ud some of the old niembeis of tin; council would lemomber that the main road between Cambridge mid T.uuaiiga was, when the woik was tiist undei taken, considered a matter of great imp iitance to the Taotaoioa Road District. Tlio then members for the Taotaoroa riding wero extiuthely anxious about it, and were consequently the principal movers. Tad c nincil of coui.se authorised the woift. All thjougb, the Matamato ratepayers had no voice in the matter whatever. They had never made any representation* to the council, and the whole thing was left in the hand' of the Taotaoro.i people. This was before Cr. Maclean's 01 Cr. Brun^kill's time. A committee was appointed to look after the work, and the whole of the money was spent under their directions. The Taotaoroa riding waa alone concerned, and even had the Matamata ratepayers been asked to att ike a rate on account of the road they would not have done so. The Matamata people bad never used the road, and it did not therefore concern them. They had not conveyed any pr« duco over it for a long time. They had inenrred an expenditure of about £1500 m opening the navigation of the Waitoa river, and this highway met all their wants in this direction. Xn application had ever bean made t<> the Matamata road board for assistance in the matter; they had never been oonsulted. Again, he would remind them that no Government money had ever been received by the M itamata board forexpendituie in that riding, lint as it appeared that some of the woik under consideration had been done in tlii"* Matamata riding, he would suggest to thero.id board, the woik boing atise^ed, that they give a contribution toward* it — Gi. Maoloiin wanted to know who instrnc tod Mi Saudes to go outside of the Ta>>taoroa riding. The woik seemed to have bi cv commenced in the Matamata riding, and the Taotaoroa riding had never been touched. At least, the gruator poition of the expenditure had h,«en in the Matamata riding.— Cr. Firth thought th<> reason that was done was because there wero some very bad places in the Matamata riding which if not attended to, the road would be useless. — The Chairman said the work had Vjppd done according to the plans and specification;* sent to the Government, when the application foi the money for the road was made.— The Engineer, Mr Sandes, believed that the major portion of the money had beon spent. It was absolutely necessary to Mpund it there, that the road might be of set vice. What work he had done, however, had boon done inohpootive of the riding ; it had been done on what wan known as the Taotaouu road deviation. In point of fact, ho did not know where the Matamata boundary was, and the question had never prey lously crept up. Any work he had done was strictly in accordance with the instructions of the council. — The matter then dropped.

A Labourer's^ Protest.— Richard Hill wrote a strong letter re arrears of wages to the tramway hands. He thought things wera brought to a climax. Neither he nor his fellow-labourers hnd unlimited credit at the bank, and bo could not carry on without their wageH. Did the council think that the storekeepers were going to advance tho money for working the tramway, and was he (Richard Hill) to be tormented continually by their demand*) for money, simply becaqxQ ha oould not get his own hard earned money ? Perhaps if some of the worthy councillors ran a store on the tit 10 they would get credit for as lung as the wagp* would run unpaid, which, ho ventured to say, would Hot be three months.— The Clerk uaid all the wages had been pdid to date.

£3000 Special Grant.— Th«» Chairman «aid information had been received fiom the Government to the effeot ttint the £3000 njwci.il grant, promised by Mr Larnn'jh during his visit to the Arohn, had p.ißscd the K*tlinate.s, and applic ttn>n Iwi'i acuoulingly been in«ode for tlio money. ACCOUNTS — Several .iccoimt-. \\e><> j'ft^ort for payment, and piuvi-umi m<ulf foi tlio payment thereof.

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